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Lyons Architecture and Aspect Studios’ Prahan Square “puts pedestrians first” by moving an open air carpark underground.

A newly opened shopping mall in Melbourne, touted as the world’s most sustainable, could be a paradigm shift for the development of retail centres.

The design of a new cafe in the forecourt of the Roy Grounds-designed Arts Centre play on an iconic and universally understood element of theatre.

The State Library of Victoria, the world’s fourth-most popular, has reopened after years-long redevelopment revealing historic spaces hidden for decades.

Geelong’s cultural precinct has a fresh new face following the completion of the redevelopment of the only state-owned arts centre outside of metropolitan Melbourne.

The 1960s Broadmeadows town hall was saved from demolition and rejuvenated after a sensitive restoration and redevelopment designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects.

This pair of student housing towers is integrated with a refurbished historic arcade in Brisbane, which is the social heart of the complex.

A newly completed 33-storey tower complements the civic architecture of Sydney’s Martin Place.

Designed by Six Degrees Architects, this Fairfield apartment building is the second in a long line of sustainable, architect-led housing developments.

A kitchen for “serious cooking” and “the perfect holiday kitchen” are among the winners of the 2020 Smeg Tour Competiton.

The architect behind a block of highly airtight apartments in Sydney’s Redfern says the Passivhaus building principles might seem onerous, but are “worth taking seriously.”

A proposal for a 13-storey extension of the QT hotel in Sydney by Candalepas Associates has been submitted to the City of Sydney.

Characterized by an undulating roof, the new Woodcroft Neighbourhood Centre by Carter Williamson Architects is set to become a civic landmark for the local area.

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has opened a curvaceous companion to its landmark brutalist tower in the centre of Sydney.

Sophie Dyring, the architect of the 57 tiny houses being erected on surplus government land in Melbourne for the homeless, said empathy was key to the project.

Four local and international architectural teams are shortlisted in competition to design a proposed $600 million tower in the centre of Brisbane.

Wood Marsh is working on the designs of two redeveloped train stations in Melbourne’s north, as part of the Victorian government’s level crossing removal project.

Fender Katsalidis has completed a subterranean expansion of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart.

Fender Katsalidis has contributed pro-bono architecture and interior design services to a new early intervention and crisis services centre in central Melbourne.

A recently completed urban renewal project in the northern Tasmanian city of Devonport is the largest in regional Tasmania’s history.

Gold Coast firm Degenhart Shedd has designed a group of nine houses on some of the smallest freehold lots in the country.

Monash University has opened a $54.3 million performing arts centre at its Clayton Campus which includes an upgraded modernist theatre and two new concert halls.

NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian official opened Western Sydney Stadium, designed by Populous, on 14 April.

The former Oxford Scholar pub in the north of the Melbourne CBD has reopened as a function and event space for RMIT University, following a renovation designed by March Studio.

Hassell has completed a new life sciences precinct at the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus that brings together the university’s veterinary, medicine and science departments.

Denton Corker Marshall has completed Australia’s largest biomedical teaching facility at Monash University in Melbourne.

A new, eight-storey environmental science teaching and research building, designed by HDR, has opened at the University of Sydney.

The Ian Potter Southbank Centre is the centrepiece of the University of Melbourne’s $200 million Southbank campus transformation.

The Australian Museum in Sydney has been given a glittering new pleated glass facelift by Neeson Murcutt and Joseph Grech.

Sydney’s newest foreshore park, Barangaroo Reserve, recreates the original headland and shoreline of the harbour.

A sculptural stainless steel facade by Patterson Associates defines a new centre for acclaimed artist Len Lye’s work.

The latest building in UTS’s redevelopment contrasts function with fluid design.

The new Australian pavilion by Denton Corker Marshall for the Venice Biennale has been revealed.

ARM Architecture and developer Grocon have unveiled an apartment tower in central Melbourne that bears the face of historic Aboriginal leader William Barak.

The 2015 Australian Open launches with a revamped venue by NH Architecture and Populous.

The University of Melbourne’s much-anticipated “living, pedagogical building” has opened.

The University of Technology Sydney unveils its Dr Chau Chak Wing building designed by Gehry Partners on 11 November, 2014.

Modelled on a flower, the inaugural MPavilion will be a shady, ‘pop-up’ home to hundreds of events in Melbourne this summer.

UTS unveils its new Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) by Denton Corker Marshall.

Melbourne’s new Docklands Library opens to the public.

The new Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre opens on Sunday 6 April.