Architecture

The new host of Grand Designs Australia isn’t trying to copy his British counterpart, but he does want to change Australian homes.

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Locals say the old shops had “all the charm of an amenities block”, but the new Cleveland Street shops seem more Rome than Redfern.

What started as two simple apartments in an arts and crafts building in Sydney has become an award-winning home for a couple with two young children.

We asked our expert, specialist travel writers to gaze into the crystal ball of travel and predict the next big things.

The hunt is on for new ideas for low- to mid-rise housing in NSW, and these young architects and students know what they want for the future.

In transforming it, the architect threw caution to the wind and let inspiration bubble to the surface. The result is simply brilliant.

Landlords across the country have seen the value of their office towers plummet by around 23 per cent, on average, over the last two years.

You may think that escalators forcing you to walk around the shopping centre are a failure of design. You could not be more wrong.

A 40-odd-year-old home overlooking inner Melbourne’s Yarra couldn’t be more at odds with the ‘greed is good’ reputation of the 1980s.

It once had servants scuttling about. Now, after a thoroughly modern renovation, this grand villa is a home for four.

In all its well-deserved glory, it gobbles up oxygen to such an extent that other wow-factor buildings don’t get the credit they deserve.