'Simply planned' home takes out building design award

6 August 2010 | A Moonah Links home by Hamilton Design has won the 2010 BDAV Building Design of the Year award.

Six Australian firms ranks in world's 100 biggest practices

21 January 2010 | A global survey of architecture practices has listed six Australian studios in the top echelon.

3D modelling wins Chinese projects

21 September 2009 | A Melbourne studio predicts that recent residential and masterplanning wins in China will double its turnover within 12 months.

Bad British architecture named and shamed

31 August 2009 | The ugly, the shameful and the downright hideous in British building has been named and shamed in a competition devoted to taking the ego out of architecture.

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30 July 2009 | Melbourne Central is "ugly and personality-free", "ungainly forms" take to the Manhattan skyline and Muscovites worry about heritage.

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23 July 2009 | New Urbanism comes under fire... again, architects blamed for inaction on climate change, Melbourne Recital Centre must stay public and ghost buildings give us the willies.

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21 July 2009 | Obama sits on his "poetic perch", opposition mounts to the Sears Tower name change and why the ecological movement so rarely produces either good architecture or coherent ecology.

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10 July 2009 | Urban sprawl is tacitly sanctioned, the Modernists go mad pirate style over climate change and RIBA sparks controversy by choosing a Chinese sponsor for the Stirling Prize.

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23 June 2009 | Architects take the credit while engineers are "ignored" and Modernism is just plain "childish", in today's news round up

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4 June 2009 | Big Ben dongs for its own birthday, architecture as "toothsome confectionery" and how urban design cultivates a sedentary population, in today's news round up

"Rigid rules" hinder the provision of affordable housing

27 April 2009 | NSW councils push the bar on SEPP65 measures

Global round up

2 March 2009 | Need-to-read news from around the globe.

Design not given enough weight in school tenders

3 December 2008 | Over 90 per cent of British architects believe that design is not given enough weight in the bidding process, under the UK's $105-billion Building Schools of the Future (BSF) programme.

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1 January 1980 | The profession needs a "new architecture education", design that "charms ghosts" and the "marketing rhetoric" of Halifax's deteriorating physical environment.