Tag: Urban design
Adelaide Festival Plaza overhaul
The SA government unveils designs for a $220m redevelopment of the Adelaide Festival Plaza by ARM and Taylor Cullity Lethlean.
The world’s best roundabout is in Hobart
The UK’s Roundabout Appreciation Society has named Hobart’s recently restored Railway Roundabout as the best in the world.
Communal Barcelona
A visit to the public plazas of Flores & Prats Architects in Barcelona, Spain.
Sydney footpaths shrink for wider roads
The NSW state government will reduce the size of CBD footpaths by demolishing kerbs and kerb extensions.
Path to sustainability: plastic roads
Residents of Rotterdam may soon be driving on roads made from recycled plastic bottles if the proposal goes ahead.
Key groups urge cities policy overhaul
The Australian Institute of Architects and the Planning Institute are among the organizations calling for change.
Do women design better cities?
The impact of gender on city design will be explored at a Brisbane conference on June 21.
Who runs the city?
Urban designer HY William Chan reviews the inaugural UNSW in the City roundtable, “The Citizen’s City – Devolution and Localism.”
Urban forests galore: green urban vision released
Quirky and innovative ideas fill the plan released by the national campaign to increase urban greenery.
Converting roads to parks
The challenge of creating new open space where none exists requires lateral thinking.
Funding boost for Hassell’s the Ribbon
Construction of the striking building closer after reports of backing from international property giant.
Writing history: Harts Mill Surrounds
A playspace by Aspect Studios at a historic mill leads the revitalization of Port Adelaide’s post-industrial waterfront.
Urban design conference call for abstracts
International Urban Design Conference seeks contributions for its 2015 November event in Brisbane.
Manufactured urbanism: Dubai Marina
A former resident of Dubai returns to the city to find it changed beyond recognition, but not redemption.
King’s Cross ‘Times Square’ tower
A Durbach Block Jaggers project for a 19-storey tower in King’s Cross is set to transform its surroundings.
Australia lags in Sustainable Cities Index
No Australian city makes the top ten in an inaugural report assessing the sustainability of 50 global centres.
From closed box to open bazaar: Street 14 ideas competition
An ideas competition proposes to transform a closed box supermarket into an open bazaar.
Review: 7th Int. Urban Design Conference
Provocative ideas were thin on the ground at the 7th International Urban Design Conference.
A’Beckett Urban Square
Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design turns parking space into a publicly accessible urban play space.
Is this Roadtown?
Peter Myers wonders if Australia is on the cusp of realising a vehicular ‘utopia’ of endless urbanism.
