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An artist’s impression showing an aquatic centre designed using a pattern book approach.

Australia has an $8 billion public pool problem. Is this the solution?

With an urgent need for public pools, Royal Life Saving NSW and Cox Architecture say a pattern book of modular designs could get people swimming more cheaply – and sooner.

  • Julie Power

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The sleek and minimal contemporary house is framed by two ornate Victorian terraces on either side.

Barely standing, derelict cottage gets a sleek, minimal contemporary makeover

What do you do with a derelict single-level Victorian cottage that is barely standing?

  • Stephen Crafti
Architect Alexander Hill with home owner Melody Valentine.

What most home owners get wrong about renovating

Many home owners planning a renovation project contact a builder to discuss their ideas, but they’re missing a step.

  • Elizabeth Redman
Melbourne’s mid-century modern homes.

Ten mid-century modern Melbourne homes that transformed the way we live

Mid-century housing changed the way Australian homes use light, open-plan living and the landscape. Here are 10 examples of the era’s most iconic homes and their influence today.

  • Caroline Zielinski
The original Brady Bunch kids in the post-renovation Brady Bunch house.

Here’s the story … of a house named Brady

Cultural landmark or living museum? The Brady Bunch house may be both. When the doors reopened last month, adopted Brady child Michael Idato was quickly knocking on the door of his childhood.

  • Michael Idato
The couple decided to stay put in the 145-square-metre apartment, but called in architecture and design firm Multiplicity to completely rework the home.

Why an apartment is named after a song by 1980s punk rock band The Clash

The striking apartment is named “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” after its owners wrestled with the question to sell up or continue living in it.

  • Stephen Crafti
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The planned new pavilion for Redcliffe’s Suttons Beach is a departure from the former art deco building.

New beachside pavilion to be built after demolition of art deco landmark

The Moreton Bay council has awarded the contract to build a new pavilion at Suttons Beach, after the former art deco building on the Redcliffe site was allowed to deteriorate to the point it could not be saved.

  • Cameron Atfield
The bridge would be accessed via ramps and features a spiral staircase, and an oculus to allow people to peer down on the restored Glebe Island Bridge.

Revealed: The plan to transform a rotting Sydney bridge into an ‘urban island’

Plans to build more homes west of Sydney’s CBD have intensified pressure on the government to reopen an old bridge. One architect has a different idea.

  • Megan Gorrey
A good renovation can transform the way you live, as long as the building process doesn’t drive you made first.

Renos? I’ve done a few. These are the eight rules I follow

Renovating your home is a stressful experience, and not just because of the cost. But there are ways to protect your sanity and (just about) keep your project on track.

  • Robyn Willis
The Curl Curl house in Sydney was designed by Peter Stutchbury.

Lagoon home’s rooftop bathtub offers stunning Pacific views

This house on a pint-sized block doesn’t maximise size, instead it responds to the way people live.

  • Stephen Crafti

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