Articles tagged with 'Designs'

ACT’s new city plan 'lacks vision'

15 February 2010 | The long awaited city plan for Canberra has come as a "disappointing" draft with "little detail".


Council endorses Swanston Street designs

4 February 2010 | The project's new civic spaces could spark a "renaissance" in central Melbourne, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle said.


Australian practice designs first iPad wall

29 January 2010 | It may only have been launched by Apple yesterday, but Melbourne practice ClarkeHopkinsClarke says the iPad holds significant potential for architects.


Shortlist revealed for UTS Podium competition

15 December 2009 | Five Australian architects will have until February to complete their designs for extending the Brutalist landmark building.


BREAKING NEWS: Designs unveiled for Sydney Metro stations

17 November 2009 | We can reveal three different station designs, by teams including Tim Greer, Richard Francis Jones and Keith Cottier.


NZ architecture guilty of "design apartheid"

12 October 2009 | Architects are aghast at the designs shortlisted for the Auckland's Queens Wharf redevelopment.


Paper folds to nature's demands

2 October 2009 | These unbelievable origami structures of insects and fish use paper to its most intricate extremes.


Architects stoush over Barangaroo designs

25 September 2009 | A leading architect has labelled the winning Barangaroo team "arrogant" for refusing to adapt its plans.


Sydney Metro reveals new designs

10 September 2009 | The Metro's environmental assessment unveils new plans for two Sydney stations and extra public space.


BREAKING NEWS: Designs revealed for new Melbourne Metro station

9 September 2009 | Designs of a new $100 million station to service Melbourne's first underground train line in 25 years are today revealed.


Green roofs "fluff" for many architects

4 September 2009 | Architects need to stop adding living roofs as an afterthought or simply to meet DA requirements and start integrating them from day one of design.


BREAKING NEWS: Mayor crops cancer centre tower

26 August 2009 | After slating designs for the Garvan Cancer Centre last week, the Mayor of Sydney has submitted her own designs to the Department of Planning that crop BVN Architecture's 11-storey tower.


UTS Broadway runners up revealed, images and full proposals

20 August 2009 | A building 'cloaked' in a laser-cut veil and a glass-walled concept that puts office workers on view are among the runners up in the UTS Broadway competition.


Cancer centre designs 'not green' and 'inconsistent': Mayor

19 August 2009 | The Mayor of Sydney has slated the designs for St Vincent's new cancer centre as "inconsistent", "gross" and environmentally unsustainable.


BREAKING NEWS: Winning designs for Sydney's laneways revealed, images

14 July 2009 | A barcode of white fluorescent tubes and a prosthetic skin with its heartbeat pulsing through a laneway, are just some of the designs that will be realised in Sydney's forgotten alleys.


Global round up

6 July 2009 | Brad Pitt unveils 14 designs for New Orleans, Sweden launches its green building council and images revealed of a 65,000-seat stadium for Iraq.


Architects have pulling power, say scientists

30 June 2009 | The future of Australia's green economy lies in the hands of architects to lead innovations in carbon efficient designs, a scientist tells Architecture & Design.


Sydney celebrates Murcutt's place making

11 June 2009 | Harmony between buildings and nature will be the focus of an exhibition to celebrate one of Australia's most influential architects in Sydney


Architects 'prostituted' in stimulus template work

9 June 2009 | Architects are being forced to prostitute themselves to cookie-cutter-style building templates as part of the federal government's stimulus package, an industry professional has said


Interiors suffer a "discernable drop" in quality

21 April 2009 | A leading designer blames clients' cost cutting for "half pregnant" designs


Global round up

12 December 2008 | Your need-to-read news from around the globe


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