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The ceiling at the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia.

After 144 years, the ‘greatest modern building on Earth’ passes a new milestone

Here it is as if architectural modernism never happened, and we kept creating places with joy, natural patterns and a whiff of the sacred.

  • Nicholas Boys Smith

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Edith Cowan University’s new Perth city campus has won big at the WA Architecture Awards.

Perth’s newest university campus lauded at major architecture awards

The building was praised for linking Perth’s central district back together with a “dramatic new insertion into the blighted and divisive strip of railway land separating the CBD from the entertainment precinct of Northbridge”.

  • Victoria Laurie
Dysart’s most famous building the University of Technology, Sydney Tower.

Architect much more than creator of brutalist UTS Tower

Michael Dysart was one of Australia’s most significant architects, designing everything from universities to hundreds of schools, and reshaping the project home market.

  • Tone Wheeler
Tim Ross on his podcast @modernister nominated Sydney architect Michael Dysart as one of his all time heroes. Here he talks to Dysart about Urambi Village.
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"Unsung hero of architecture'': Michael Dysart

Tim Ross on his podcast @modernister nominated Sydney architect Michael Dysart as one of his all time heroes. Here he talks to Dysart about Urambi Village.

Hakea House in Paddington,  Brisbane has been shortlisted in the  Houses Awards 2026.

Paddington house rises from the ashes to be acclaimed one of the nation’s best

Christopher designed an extension to a 1920s Queensland workers’ cottage. Then he got the kind of news no architect wants to receive.

  • Nick Dent
Architect Alexander Symes.

Why even takeaway coffee cups will be used to rebuild this Sydney home

Architect Alexander Symes is trying to build a new home for his family where everything is used and nothing leaves the site. And he means everything.

  • Julie Power
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Collier’s home is an unusual shape to catch the sun and provide privacy on a tricky block.

Most people thought this block was too hard to build on. But not Stephen

Stephen Collier’s home is shortlisted for two major architecture awards. It also marks a remarkable recovery and shows the power of our homes as a refuge and remedy.

  • Julie Power
Sydney architect Nick Bell with his daughter Charlie.

How two architects reimagined their own homes

Two architects have undertaken very different transformations of their homes. One of the houses is now a popular inner-city selfie background, while the other is a private coastal retreat.

  • Carmen Forward
Brothers Hussein Saad and Abboud Saad (pictured) bought a Brunswick fixer-upper at auction just over a year ago for $1.01 million. They have renovated the home and relisted it for sale for $1,950,000 - $2,100,000. 22nd May 2026. Photo by Jason South

‘An iconic home’: Brothers transform Edwardian home for next generation

How brothers who bought a dilapidated home held by the same family for 115 years turned it into a light-filled haven, while keeping the heritage intact.

  • Abbir Dib
A renovated, bluestone, traditional Victorian cottage conceals an edgy city pad in Fitzroy designed by Olaver Architects.

Renovated, bluestone Victorian cottage conceals an edgy Fitzroy pad

Some of the best architecture can often be discovered behind modest facades where it’s not screaming for attention.

  • Stephen Crafti