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Brisbane State High School is predicted to reach over 3800 students by 2029.

Top Brisbane school wants playing fields – not units – at riverside site

The school is hoping to override Queensland government plans to build thousands of new apartments on the former factory site on the banks of the Brisbane River.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt

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Billions of dollars in rail infrastructure is expected to be delivered by the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games.

Not just for 2032: Plea for a future-proof Queensland rail system

Engineers have warned infrastructure for the 2032 Olympic Games must be designed and delivered with the next half-century in mind.

  • Cameron Atfield
Nicholas Street Precinct in Ipswich has revitalised the city’s CBD.

How this urban regeneration brought people back and made it safe after 5pm

Ipswich’s Nicholas Street Precinct has won multiple awards, but an architect involved says the biggest reward is seeing locals treat the space as their own.

  • Dominique Tassell
Renders of the Visy site in South Brisbane.

‘South Bank 2.0’ was called a white elephant. The new plan has its critics too

The once-popular proposal to transform the former glass manufacturing site into South Bank 2.0 appears to be dead in the water.

  • William Davis
The restoration plan for the Broadway Hotel in Woolloongabba.

Gutted hotel set for restoration ... and a high-rise tower

The 136-year-old Broadway Hotel in Woolloongabba has been in ruins since it first caught fire in 2010.

  • William Davis
The government is encouraging significant development in South Brisbane, with several major projects already approved.

South Brisbane set for more apartments as skyscraper rules renewed

Plans to rapidly develop the area have frustrated some residents, who believe it is being overcrowded while infrastructure lags behind.

  • William Davis
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A rendering of the new development in South Brisbane.

Tallest tower outside CBD approved for construction at 205 metres

The biggest of the three buildings would be the tallest outside the CBD – and among the tallest in Brisbane outright.

  • William Davis
The priority development area as shown on a map of Woolloongabba in Brisbane.

Thousands of extra homes to be built in plan to transform inner Brisbane suburbs

Up to 16,000 new homes will be permitted within the 106-hectare area, taking in parts of four suburbs.

  • William Davis
Flagstone local Danielle Van Veen with her three children.

‘It’s going to stretch budgets’: The affordability paradox for Brisbane’s growth corridor schools

Housing incentives have set off a housing boom predicted to hit south of Brisbane in the near future. Can schools keep up with it?

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Molti’s new luxury riverfront development has drawn design inspiration from the Story Bridge, which its 200 metres from apartments.

Designs for ‘original’ riverfront apartments seeking $9.5 million unveiled

Developers said the site was one of Kangaroo Point’s last riverfront blocks, and hoped the new building would add “character and prestige” to the area.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt

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