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The Grain Loft – a repurposed Lysaght silo.

Twenty years in the making, grain silo becomes luxury escape

It’s been 20 years in the making for farmers Amber and Nicholas Heffernan, who had a dream to convert a silo into a luxe eco-farm stay.

  • Sue Wallace

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The variety of succulents and abstract art on the neighbour’s brick walls capture desert scenes.

Award-winning inner-city sanctuary gives a nod to the ’80s

The innovative Six Ways House, named after an intersection at its front door, has set neighbours’ tongues wagging.

  • Stephen Crafti
The new Okura Hotel lobby in Tokyo is the coolest in the world.

The coolest hotel lobby, in the coolest city, in the world

This hotel is worth a detour when you’re in Tokyo, even if you’re not staying there.

  • Lee Tulloch
Annette Pitman’s Griffin-designed home on show.

New museum head puts on a stunning exhibition: her own Sydney home

A 49-square-metre home by US architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin will be open to the public to celebrate the contribution of female architects.

  • Julie Power
The award-winning home in suburban Newcastle’s Maryland, designed by Curious Practice, is named Aru.

An ‘insect’ house that touches the ground lightly

This simple interwar cottage, which was damaged in the 1989 Newcastle earthquake, is now an architectural treasure in harmony with its environs.

  • Stephen Crafti
Brisbane will host the 2032 Olympic Games, and it’s expected to put a rocket under housing prices.

Experts weigh in on Olympic planning, while avoiding stadium debate

Some of Australia’s peak professional bodies have remained agnostic on the location of stadiums while submitting road maps to the 100-day review.

  • Cameron Atfield
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Tim Ross is presenting a new show, The Australian Dream?, at the State Library of Queensland.

‘Just makes me swoon’: This is Rosso’s favourite house in Brisbane

The comedian and architecture fan loves the city’s distinctive homes, but says we have to rethink what affordable housing means for the future.

  • Nick Dent
The proposed ‘Gabba West’ stadium, across Main Street from the existing Gabba.

Timber stadium proposed for new, relocated Gabba

The architect pitching for a timber venue across the road from the existing stadium says it’s an Olympic solution that’s been “hiding in plain sight”.

  • Cameron Atfield
One of the small incremental changes made was to the threshold between the entrance and the front living area.

Don’t want a big reno? Doing less can create more

There are ways of increasing the sense of space and light. And doing less can often create significantly more, says an architect.

  • Stephen Crafti
A new design for Mt Druitt’s Dawson park has won a major award.

How 20km of coloured rope transformed this town square

Public art, improved lighting and imagination are making our suburbs safer and bringing communities together.

  • Julie Power

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