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Australia's oldest bridge, which many believe is haunted by a notorious ex-convict, is getting some TLC to help it last into the future.
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| UpdatedLittle is known about the origins of one of the oldest buildings in Australia — Hobart's Private Secretary's Cottage.
Topics: history, library-museum-and-gallery, architecture, 19th-century, human-interest, hobart-7000
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One of Sydney's most prominent examples of brutalist architecture, the Sirius building at The Rocks, will be opened to the public for the first time in almost 40 years.
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| UpdatedOne of Sydney's most prominent examples of brutalist architecture, the almost deserted Sirius building at The Rocks, is opened to the public for the first time in almost 40 years.
Topics: housing, architecture, arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, the-rocks-2000, sydney-2000, nsw
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Perth once had 15 cinema screens in the city centre; now there are none, but the evidence of the old movie halls is still there hidden behind shops, offices and in basements.
Topics: film-movies, history, arts-and-entertainment, architecture, human-interest, perth-6000
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Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni has watched her hometown of Homs reduced to rubble, but says the future lies empowering local communities.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, architecture, design, books-literature, perth-6000, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedA group of north-east Victorian residents has created a grass roots campaign to help save Australia's largest timber building.
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Are houses on lots as small as 80 square metres the solution for those comfortable with high-density living but despise apartment blocks?
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, house-and-home, community-and-society, housing-industry, architecture, human-interest, perth-6000
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Architects working in the Soviet Union transformed simple bus stops into pieces of art and acts of defiance.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, architecture, design, russian-federation, azerbaijan, armenia, georgia, uzbekistan
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Since the mid 1980s Danish architect Jan Gehl has been helping Melbourne to "turn this miserable scene into one of the most likeable cities in the world".
Topics: architecture, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, government-and-politics, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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Should Melbourne embrace three-bedroom apartments to provide better housing options for families into the future?
Topics: architecture, housing, community-and-society, family, sustainable-living, melbourne-3000
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Typically defined as temporary or demountable housing, nobody is quite sure where the word donga even came from, let alone how it came to apply to such a vast display of structures.
Topics: offbeat, architecture, popular-culture, abc, people, human-interest, darwin-0800
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Peter Rathjen in a student accommodation room
Topics: architecture, university-and-further-education, hobart-7000
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Plans to uni-fy central Hobart will become a reality in February when more than 600 students from the University of Tasmania are expected to move in.
Topics: university-and-further-education, urban-development-and-planning, architecture, local-government, hobart-7000
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The Australian Institute of Architects calls for an urgent review of plans to build a fence around Parliament House in Canberra, which includes sealing off the grass lawns on the sides of the building.
Topics: federal-parliament, architecture, parliament-house-2600
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Following rumours their brutalist building was to be demolished, staff at the University of Sydney successfully apply to the National Trust to have it recognised.
Topics: architecture, design, university-and-further-education, people, human-interest, sydney-2000