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The Sydney Opera House has announced that it has awarded two contracts for the renewal of the iconic building’s concert hall – part of the biggest upgrade to the building since it opened.

The NSW government has directed the Greater Sydney Commission to immediately review planning rules “to ensure they are consistent with the government’s vision.”

City of Melbourne councillors have voted to approve the final Moonee Ponds Creek Strategic Opportunities Plan, which calls for new green public spaces that will cater to the high levels of residential development in the area and boost flood resilience.

A proposal for a slender, 30-storey tower atop a heritage building in central Brisbane, designed by Hames Sharley, has been approved.

The redevelopment of Queensland Ballet’s Thomas Dixon Centre is on track for completion before Christmas 2020.

A vacant bar, cinema and nightclub on Sydney’s Oxford Street would become a multipurpose building containing both entertainment venues and a purpose-built medical facility under a new proposal.

Woods Bagot has led the development of a concept design and planning application for a new hub for the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Business School.

Children’s health charity Royal Far West has commissioned Glenn Murcutt and Angelo Candalepas to design new beachfront headquarters.

Beulah International has submitted a planning application with the Victorian government for its much-hyped Southbank tower project, designed by UN Studio and Cox Architecture.

GHD Woodhead have designed a 28-storey hotel in central Adelaide, to be built on the site of a heritage-listed bank.

A concept scheme for a 150-metre-tall tower on Sydney’s George Street has been submitted to the City of Sydney.

The developer behind Perth’s Indiana Tea House at Cottesloe Beach has released four shortlisted design concepts for the site’s redevelopment.

The Quandamooka Art, Museum and Performance Institute (QUAMPI), designed by Cox Architecture, has received $4.5 million in funding from the state government.

Architectus and Six Degrees Architects’ design celebrates the campus’s industrial heritage and champions its ongoing contribution to regional prosperity.

Charles Sturt University has announced that construction is under way for a $40 million building designed by BVN at its new Port Macquarie campus.

The transformative project will be built around the extended Flinders rail line and will aim to create a “vibrant urban centre” in the south of Adelaide.

BKK Architects and Kerstin Thompson Architects, together with landscape architect practice Aspect Studios, have won a design competition for the redevelopment of a cultural and performing arts centre in Melbourne’s suburban east.

ARM Architecture, designers of the redevelopment of the Melbourne Central shopping centre in 2001, return to the complex with a design for a timber office addition.

A Hames Sharley-designed 25-storey office and hotel tower proposed for Adelaide’s Currie Street is expected to be approved by the State Commission Assessment panel on 23 May.

A seventeen-storey tower on Sydney’s Pitt Street designed by BVN will open in 2020 and include an upmarket hotel, according to Intercontinental Hotels Group.

Norwegian practice Snøhetta and Brisbane firm Blight Rayner Architecture have together beaten out 23 other design teams to win a design competition for a new theatre at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.

Bates Smart has won a design competition for an apartment project in Brisbane.

The NSW Independent Planning Commission has granted concept approval for a 183-metre tower by Cockle Bay Wharf on Sydney Harbour.

The City of Melbourne has approved plans to build a ‘skyfarm’ atop a carpark in Melbourne’s Docklands that will include a working farm, nursery, shop, cafe, event space and education space.

JCB Architects have designed two student accommodation buildings for La Trobe University in Melbourne that will be made of mass timber.

Hassell and non-profit organization Architects Without Frontiers (AWF) have collaborated with the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation on a concept design for a new cultural precinct in a Northern Territory town.

Plans have been submitted for a $1.5 billion commercial development on Collins Street designed by Cox Architecture and Gensler.

Liverpool City Council has invited nine practices to submit ideas for a master plan to transform Woodward Park over the coming years.

Waverley Council in Sydney’s inner-east has revealed a reworked design by architect Tonkin Zulaikha Greer (TZG) to restore and redevelop the heritage-listed Bondi Pavilion, originally designed by Robertson and Marks and built in 1929.

Part of the original architecture team for a swimming pool complex in suburban Melbourne has produced designs for its renovations.

The 20th century department store, which is locally heritage listed, would be refurbished to contain a mix of retail and office spaces crowned with a residential tower.

Brisbane-based architecture firm Bureau Proberts and creative studio Urban Art Projects have been announced as the designers for the Australian pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai.

Curtin University’s new $110 million School of Design and the Built Environment will be designed by John Wardle Architects.

The Queensland government has released conceptual designs by BVN for the new Inner City South State Secondary College.

MGS Architects has produced three concept designs for the redevelopment of a park in Melbourne’s west, which will include a new community centre.

Woods Bagot has designed a building for Victoria University that will act as a hub for TAFE courses in Melbourne’s West.

Work has started on the construction of Sydney’s largest aquatic centre since the 2000 Olympics, with a rock pool-inspired design by Andrew Burges Architects.

We round up the upcoming projects most keenly anticipated by our readers in 2015.

DKJ Projects Architecture and Fender Katsalidis Mirams’ design for a new NT art gallery is like a “cathedral of modern society.”

Perth’s Subiaco Oval could be redeveloped as an artificial surf park or a hub of education and innovation.