Architecture
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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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
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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
"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.
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
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
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
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
‘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
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