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The Gateway and Gemini buildings in Potts Point, and Roslyn Gardens in Rushcutters Bay, are under consideration for heritage listing.

‘Not a museum’: The Sydney apartment owners fighting heritage protection

A council wants to preserve nine boxy brick buildings from the 1950s and 60s. But some residents aren’t happy.

  • Megan Gorrey

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Marcus Lloyd-Jones, the founder of Modern House, a specialist in mid century modern and architect designed real estate at Alexander House in Avalon - a Mid-Century Modernist home owned by Graeme Bell, an architect from Trace Architects. Bell is one of dozens of people who have nominated their home to be part of a study of mid century architecture on the Northern Beaches.

The housing marvels that came to Sydney’s northern beaches and defied the McMansions

The Northern Beaches Council has called on the public to submit examples of mid-century modern architecture they want to see saved.

  • Julie Power
Paddington terraces.

They’re the ‘cockroaches’ of Sydney housing. But what will terraces look like in future?

The NSW government is pulling together a pattern book of designs for medium density buildings from two to six storeys that will attract fast-track approval.

  • Julie Power
Drone footage of Blok Belongil, a triangular shaped beach house for a triangular shaped site at Byron Bay, going up in a day. A modular design, by architects Blok Modular with Vokes and Peters ,it was made in a QLD factory, and shipped to the site by truck. It is shortlisted for the NSW Architecture awards for best new home to be announced in late June.
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Drone footage of Blok Belongil

Drone footage of Blok Belongil, a triangular shaped beach house for a triangular shaped site at Byron Bay, going up in a day. A modular design, by architects Blok Modular with Vokes and Peters ,it was made in a QLD factory, and shipped to the site by truck. It is shortlisted for the NSW Architecture awards for best new home to be announced in late June.

Yeshiva College in Bondi designed by legendary architect Harry Seidler.

Why a heritage listing for this Seidler-designed Bondi synagogue has been rejected

Waverley Council is vowing to fight any redevelopment proposal by the site’s owner, Harry Triguboff, who says he has no plan to build apartments there “at this stage”.

  • Michael Koziol
Kelly at his home in Woolloomooloo.

Portrait of the artist, and his portrait of Sydney life

Michael Kelly is a landscape artist who’s kept sketchbooks of what he’s seen, studied, and where he’s lived. Many will be on show at the State Library of NSW.

  • Julie Power
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Dollhouses for adults: how social media turbocharged tiny models

Take a step inside a world where architects’ wildest dreams come alive before politics, zoning and costs get in the way.

  • Julie Power
Auction winner Craig Tan with his family wife Gemma and children Ruben and Harrison.

What’s in a name? Boosting the value of your postwar home

When it comes to selling or investing in postwar architecture, the name of the architect can bump up the value.

  • Stephen Crafti
Waterfront Brisabane’s two towers (centre), with Riparian Plaza to the right.

Neighbours launch last-ditch bid to stop $2.5b Waterfront Brisbane project

The battle to stop one of Queensland’s biggest projects could be heading back to court, with opponents of the $2.5 billion Waterfront Brisbane appealing a decision to give it the green light.

  • Cameron Atfield
Penelope Seidler is happy to see the building used for a different purpose, just not destroyed.

Penelope Seidler joins fight to save Bondi synagogue from demolition

An interim heritage order has been placed on the site of a Harry Seidler-designed synagogue, owned by property developer Harry Triguboff’s Meriton, amid fears it will be demolished.

  • Andrew Taylor

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