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As more and more high-rise apartments are developed in capital cities across Australia, are views being prioritised over good design?
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A Brisbane couple are epitomising the trend towards smaller and more sustainable homes, living in a house not much bigger than a caravan in their friend's backyard.
Topics: house-and-home, community-and-society, housing-industry, architecture, brisbane-4000, australia, red-hill-4059
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An new exhibition explores the older buildings in Sydney that have been demolished and what the change in architecture says about our culture.
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| UpdatedAlmost 200,000 square metres in Fremantle's West End is placed on WA's heritage register, to protect the precinct's unique gold boom era buildings.
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Robyn Bain, Michael Britten, and Peter Whiter discuss the future of Eden's Hotel Australasia
Topics: architecture, history, urban-development-and-planning, eden-2551
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Gone is the ideal of a house in the suburbs with a drive to work; in its place is an apartment block within walking distance of everything you need.
Topics: lifestyle, urban-development-and-planning, architecture, community-and-society, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedArchitects and urban planners might think they know it all, but burglars can teach us a lot about our own cities, says writer Geoff Manaugh.
Topics: design, architecture, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, united-states
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The National Art School is a beautiful complex with colonial sandstone architecture and leafy gardens, but almost two centuries ago the old Darlinghurst gaol was a brutal place that housed some of Sydney's worst criminals.
Topics: history, community-and-society, education, arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, architecture, sydney-2000
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This weekend explore some of the city's iconic buildings as part of Open House Perth.
Topics: architecture, design, industrial-design, human-interest, perth-6000
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| UpdatedResidents and fountain enthusiasts are pushing for more water features and fountains to be built around Brisbane.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, architecture, history, water, brisbane-4000, ipswich-4305
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The idea of a "typical suburban home" has changed over the years in Australia — from the post-war modernist boom to the McMansions of the '80s.
Comedian, broadcaster and architecture enthusiast, Tim Ross, takes a look at the way Australian design has developed in a new two-part ABC series called Streets Of Your Town.
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| UpdatedMore than 50 Sydney buildings which are normally off-limits to the public will open their doors on Sunday, including the Lands Department Building, Hong Kong House, Legion House, the Great Synagogue and Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay.
Topics: history, art-history, architecture, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedMany surprises are hidden within the walls of this Canberra landmark.
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A pathway in Adelaide's Light Square will demonstrate the city's pride in the LGBTI community, officials say.
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Thousands of public servants will begin moving into Brisbane's "Tower of Power" today with the interior of the building complete.
Topics: state-parliament, architecture, brisbane-4000
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The work of renowned Australian architect Harry Seidler has been brought to life in a new documentary. His wife and professional partner, Penelope Seidler, says the modernism philosophy he so cherished is going stronger than ever.
Topics: architecture, documentary, australia
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A 'hovering cube' takes its place at the Australian National Botanic Gardens after the design was chosen for a new conservatory.
Topics: design, architecture, competitions, conservation, environment, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedPreviously wasted urban zones in Bangkok are being transformed into oddly shaped football fields in a project designed to help impoverished communities.
Topics: soccer, sport, art-and-design, industrial-design, design, architecture, poverty, community-and-society, thailand, argentina, asia
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With a legacy of egalitarian social housing and architectural significance, Sydney's Sirius building is too good to lose.
Topics: design, architecture, housing, housing-industry, history, sydney-2000, the-rocks-2000
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The former chair of the NSW Heritage Council criticises the State Government's refusal to heritage list the landmark Sirius apartment building in the historic Rocks area of Sydney.
Topics: local-government, housing, social-policy, urban-development-and-planning, architecture, millers-point-2000