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  • With bushfires continuing to devastate our neighbors across Australia, and the effects being felt in New Zealand as smoke blackens the skies and blots out the sun, many design professionals are left w ...
  • C. Kairouz Architects' Design Australia's First Photovoltaic Glass Building

    21 Jan 2020 Sarah Buckley - ArchitectureandDesign.com
    The definition of "photovoltaic" also known as "PV" is the conversion of light into electricity through the use of solar panels in an effect called photoelectricity. The solar panels are comprised of ...
  • Defining a New Decade In Design

    21 Jan 2020 Michael Roberts, The Western Australian
    As Coco Chanel once famously said, “Fashion fades, only style remains the same”. Many design trends of the moment come and go in a matter of months, but there are those which have stood the test of ti ...
  • Standing in a pile of rubble, Faith Gordon is still coming to terms with seeing her house destroyed by fire.  Her house was burnt down in the fire in Central Queensland in November. "It's just as shoc ...
  • Sydney-based developer Coronation Property Co has joined a small group of players in the city’s nascent build-to-rent sector, earmarking a recent purchase of a site in the city’s west as the first ste ...
  • New National Bushfire Recovery Agency Established

    20 Jan 2020 Eliza Booth - Infrastructure.com.au
    The Federal Government has announced it will establish a new recovery agency with an initial $2 billion funding to assist and coordinate in rebuilding communities following a destructive start to the ...
  • NSW Railway Infrastructure Restoration Underway Following Damage By Fires

    20 Jan 2020 Eliza Booth - Infrastructure.com.au
    Work has begun on the NSW Railway in a bid to heal some of the damage and effects caused following the bushfires. Critical rail infrastructure is a must following devastating fires along the Blue Moun ...
  • In his statement explaining the Reserve Bank’s decision on the rate cut, the former RBA governor Ian Macfarlane had expected the global downturn following the dotcom bust to worsen and Australia to fe ...
  • Joe Kaeser says he must balance stakeholder interests as climate change activists protest the company’s decision. Global engineering company Siemens will not pull out of a contract at the new Adani co ...
  • 3XN Unveils New, Sustainable Building for UNSW Sydney Campus

    18 Jan 2020 Lucy Wang - inhabitat.com
    Following a rigorous international competition, spanning 6 continents and 132 different countries, Danish architectural firm 3XN came out on top and has officially won the bid to design the University ...
  • Sydney Harbour: More than meets the proverbial eye.

    17 Jan 2020 National Geographic
    The city of Sydney is stirring. If you set out onto Sydney Harbourfront early morning, the sky begins to blush, turning the bay an oily pink as the sun reflects off the glistening water. Every rivet a ...
  • What's stressing Australia's construction managers?

    17 Jan 2020 Branko Miletic, Architecture and Design.com
    Construction project managers in Australia are under a tremendous amount of work-related stress, which is affecting their mental health as well as the ability to perform their jobs. With the increase ...
  • The Tallest Buildings In Australia. Where is it and Who Designed it?

    16 Jan 2020 Architecture and News Editorial Desk
    The Q1 Tower, designed by the Buchan Group and constructed by Sunland Constructions is not only the tallest building in Australia but also in the Oceania region. As far as the world goes, it is ranked ...
  • Sydney Planning to Focus more on people not cars

    16 Jan 2020 Amy Cheng - GovernmentNews.com.au
    Sydney needs to move away from a vehicle-centric approach to urban planning if liveability is to be increased, according to landscape architecture and urban design experts. As the populous grows each ...
  • Housing Costs at all time low since 2015

    15 Jan 2020 Yahoo Finance
    Sydney residents renting units are expected to enjoy the cheapest rates since 2015 as new apartment construction has pushed prices down unexpectedly. While Sydney remains still the most expensive plac ...
  • Roads less travelled, or less built.

    15 Jan 2020 Jonathan Kearsley - 9news Australia
    Frustration grows as construction has started on just three of 114 federal government-funded road projects promised in the lead-up to the general election. Two are on the same road in Ellenbrook, in P ...
  • An Incite into Australia's Most famous Interior Designers

    14 Jan 2020 Prue Miller - Architecture and Design.com
    Australian interior designers and their associated design companies and decor have always had their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere in the world is this more prevalent than in a country whose s ...
  • New era for public transport as NSW dismantles its roads agency

    14 Jan 2020 Jenny Wiggins - Australian Financial Review
    NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance told AFR Weekend the following: "We’re going to have a lot more to say this year about mobility as a service and innovation. The car is the most inefficient for ...
  • 21 Amazing Facts About The Sydney Opera House

    13 Jan 2020 Trevor English - InterestingEngineering.com
    The Sydney Opera House is one of the world's most famous buildings, but did you know these interesting facts about it?
  • A prolific building certifier is in a fight to save his career over various allegations that he allowed people to move into two Sydney apartment towers while it was still a building site.  Valerio "Vi ...
  • Enter a Labyrinth of Light, Color and Air with Dodecalis Luminarium

    13 Jan 2020 Jasmine Crittenden - Broadsheet.com
    The UK’s Architects of Air has returned to Sydney Festival with another magnificent inflatable installation. This time, it’s the wildly impressive, mesmeric creation known as the "Dodecalis Luminarium ...
  • Sydney’s property bounce may have a whole lot more in it. The statement comes off the back of the latest New South Wales building approval numbers which revealed the state isn’t building anywhere near ...
  • Big Sydney projects put Crown back in the black

    10 Jan 2020 Larry Schlesinger - Australian Financial Review
    The Developer Crown Group Company swung back into profit in the 2019 financial year following the completion and settlement its two big apartment projects in Sydney, its latest full-year results show. ...
  • Four large-scale artworks are setting off the 2020 arts program at Sydney’s iconic Carriageworks. They are free to attend for the public, and they will remain in the venue for quite some time, highlig ...

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