Tag: Urban design

Sydney Exhibition Centre by Philip Cox Richardson Taylor & Partners
Industry News | 26 Apr 2013

Save the centres

An advocacy website supports the preservation of Darling Harbour buildings slated for demolition.

FCAD McNab Avenue Development by BKK Architects — a Citiniche project partner.
Industry News | Jill Pope | 5 Apr 2013

New online development platform

Citiniche is a design-focused and people-powered online property development platform.

Regularity and strangeness
Discussion | Laura Harding | 25 Mar 2013

Regularity and strangeness

Laura Harding muses on regularity and strangeness in the urban built environment.

8.5m-wide footpaths now run along either side of the 13m-wide road.
Projects | Helen Norrie | 4 Mar 2013

Flinders Street (Qld) revitalization

A redevelopment of Townsville’s main street by Gamble McKinnon Green captures its historic character.

Steel rings mark the position of former oil tanks, one of which has been turned into an architectural folly.
Awards | 1 Mar 2013

CCAA Awards open

Entries open for 2013 Public Domain Awards from Cement Concrete & Aggregates Australia.

Stewart Hollenstein + Colin Stewart Architects’ winning scheme for an urban living room, a field of indoor/outdoor spaces and a sunken garden.
Industry News | 27 Feb 2013

Green Square Library & Plaza unveiled

Winner of this two-stage competition is announced.

The Atkinson Forum is one of the key public spaces within the academic core that is the focus of placemaking activity and campus planning.
Discussion | Andy Sharp | 14 Feb 2013

Interview: Andy Sharp / Curtin City

Andy Sharp of Curtin University talks about his role in the redevelopment of its campus as a major urban centre.

The water fountain at Rouse Hill’s town square.

Oculus: Rouse Hill Regional Centre

A conversation from the 2013 Urban Issue of Landscape Architecture Australia.

Latrobe Valley was the live test case site for the competition.
Industry News | 28 Nov 2012

Transiting Cities exhibition

Two Melbourne exhibitions will showcase ideas from the Transiting Cities — Low Carbon Futures competition.

Jason Wing’s Between Two Worlds mural links Little Hay Street and Kimber Lane in Chinatown, Sydney.
Industry News | 16 Nov 2012

Sydney laneway revival

Two Sydney laneway projects, led by Aspect Studios, are enjoying an art-based renaissance.

Australia's Unintended Cities book launch
Public Events | 13 Nov 2012

Australia’s Unintended Cities book launch

Richard Tomlinson launches his book Australia’s Unintended Cities at the Melbourne School of Design on 28 November.

Looking south along Swanston St.
Discussion | Paul Walker | 9 Nov 2012

Swanston Street precinct

Swanston Academic Building is right at home among the canopies, chaos and pockets of calm on this pivotal thoroughfare writes Paul Walker.

A water wheel allows kids to control the routing of water.
Projects | Marianna Preston | 11 Oct 2012

Darling Quarter playground

Sydney’s award-winning Darling Quarter playground by Aspect Studios.

In your face place
Discussion | Andrew Leach | 20 Sep 2012

In your face place

Andrew Leach looks at the extreme form of the Gold Coast as an architectural challenge that cannot be ignored.

Test site: Yallourn Coal Mine, Latrobe Valley Victoria.
Industry News | 19 Sep 2012

Transiting Cities design competition

An international design ideas competition to give Victoria’s Latrobe Valley a low carbon future.

Vanessa (left) and Mat (right) Vanessa assess the health of the hives.
People | Stuart Taylor | 8 Sep 2012

A toast to the urban honeybee

Melbourne City Rooftop Honey project starts September 2012.

The suspended roof offers dappled shade by day and an outdoor room by night.
Projects | 4 Sep 2012

Langtree Mall pavilion

A small civic structure in Mildura by Bellemo & Cat with Hansen Landscape Architects.

The northern entry to the information pod.
Projects | Tim Smith | 21 Aug 2012

Noosa Junction Station

A Sunshine Coast transport hub by Bark Design Architects, Guymer Bailey Landscape and SKM in the relaxed Noosa spirit.

The rail bridge runs above the Merri Creek and the cycling path.
Projects | Adrian Marshall | 13 Aug 2012

Clifton Hill Railway Project

A new rail bridge, with pedestrian paths, in Melbourne’s Clifton Hill transforms a formerly grimy space into a public park.

Laurimar is a new subdivision in Melbourne’s outer-northern City of Whittlesea.
Archive | 4 Aug 2012

Expectant Lots

Croxon Ramsay’s Laurimar Community Activity Centre is located in one of Melbourne’s fastest-growing municipalities.

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