Linda Cheng is Editor of ArchitectureAU.com. She has written extensively on architecture and design in Australia and around the world. Linda completed a Bachelor of Planning and Design (Architecture) at the University of Melbourne and has worked at a small architecture practice in Melbourne. Linda has also contributed to Australian architecture and design magazines including Architecture Australia, Houses, Artichoke, DQ, and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Gallery magazine. She was previously deputy editor/art director of Furnishing International and editorial assistant of Indesign and Habitus magazines.
Linda Cheng's Latest contributions
Fender Katsalidis, Cox twin towers to be among tallest in Melbourne
Victoria’s Minister for Planning approves a twin tower development in Melbourne’s CBD by Fender Katsalidis Architects and Cox Architecture.
Cairns Performing Arts Centre approved
Cox Rayner’s Cairns Performing Arts Centre has been approved, in spite of an objection from the Australian Institute of Architects.
Gold Coast Airport redevelopment to begin
The Australian federal government has approved the redevelopment of the Gold Coast Airport by Cox Architecture.
Kengo Kuma’s first Australian project
Japanese architecture practice Kengo Kuma and Associates will design its first Australian project, a library and retail hub in Sydney’s Darling Harbour.
Another failed Melbourne design competition… c.1978
A 1978 international ideas competition to design a Melbourne “landmark” yielded a “marvellous mish-mash” of figural designs, but no concrete results.
Bates Smart wins Aspire tower competition
Developer Walker Corporation has announced Bates Smart has been selected to design a 90-storey tower in Parramatta.
Queensland’s design and architecture uncovered
The Asia Pacific Architecture Forum heads into its second week with two exhibitions that unearth some of Queensland’s design and architectural gems.
Nightingale unveils new project
A second apartment development in the Nightingale model has been submitted for planning approval.
Former ‘De Stijl’ Weet-Bix factory to become spa resort
Heritage-listed former Sanitarium Weet-Bix factory in Victoria’s Warburton to be turned into a spa resort.
Proposed Australian cemetery wins WAN Award
A proposed “natural remembrance park” by CHROFI and McGregor Coxall has received the WAN Future Projects Commercial Award 2015.