Articles tagged with 'building'

Residential building activity receives a small boost

26 August 2010 | The residential building recovery is starting to make small gains.


Nouvel sees red

10 August 2010 | The 2010 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion has been designed by French architect Jean Nouvel - and consists of an entirely red building.


Victoria's building boom continues

2 August 2010 | Victoria’s building industry has continued to grow strongly, with 113,670 building permits worth $23.9 billion issued in the past financial year - the highest ever on record.


Building approvals drop

2 July 2010 | ABS building approvals fell further in May 2010, reinforcing the case for steady interest rates and renewed urgency in supply side housing reforms, according to the Housing Industry Association (HIA).


Building recovery to stall

28 June 2010 | Indications show the new home building recovery will stall in 2011, according to the Housing Industry Association (HIA).


Victoria hits the hotspot list

8 June 2010 | Victoria is the nation’s biggest building hotspot, according to a new report from the Housing Industry Association (HIA).


Building recovery on a slow crawl

26 May 2010 | The Housing Industry Association (HIA) says ABS figures released today show a new home building recovery that was proceeding very slowly.


Rant on

23 February 2010 | Las Vegas' latest casino resort an "absurd simulacrum of another city", the failure of modern architecture and Lord Norman Foster delivers disappointing design for Yale.


Architects hardest hit by green project deferrals

19 February 2010 | Green projects were most likely to be deferred or abandoned at the design stage in 2009, new research reveals.


Victoria succeeds in designing safe streets

19 February 2010 | Where the residential sector has done a good job of designing against crime, commercial building has "failed", says an urban planner.


Bangkok fire trial finds architect's signature forged

18 February 2010 | Building design faults have been partly blamed for the deaths of 67 people during a fire at a New Year’s Eve party in a Bangkok nightclub.


Global round up

18 February 2010 | New Office for Urban Development and Environment in Germany, British Airways flights go carbon neutral and open-air theatre causes controversy in Malta.


"Elegant" Hindmarsh Square structure wins approval

17 February 2010 | HASSELL's $105 million office building for the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has won development approval.


Rant on

15 February 2010 | Modern architecture "drab", architects should be subject to public scrutiny and "miserably anti-urban" buildings in Cincinnati.


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".


Warning for architects following deaths of installers

10 February 2010 | Archicentre has issued an "urgent warning" to its 1,000 member architects following the deaths of four foil insulation installers.


Bankruptcies rise by one third for architects, engineers

9 February 2010 | Statistics reveal the impact of the global financial crisis upon architectural sole practitioners and small studios.


Burj Khalifa closes to the public

9 February 2010 | The 124th-storey viewing platform on the world's tallest building has closed to the public.


FIRST LOOK: Woods Bagot's ACU centre

9 February 2010 | The Australian Catholic University's new Centre for Health and Wellbeing is an exercise in healthy architecture, according to Woods Bagot.


Rant on

9 February 2010 | "Uninspired" buildings that offer "desultory" results, "absurdist, nihilistic and egocentric" architecture and Victorian terraced housing "left to rot".


Victorian building approvals up 110 per cent

5 February 2010 | The garden state approved 48,452 homes in 2009, despite the impact of the financial crisis.


VIDEO: UTS tower to get glowing eco-skin

5 February 2010 | UTS Tower, Goulburn Street Car Park and other 1960s Sydney icons could receive a much-needed facelift, thanks to a new, innovative 'reskinning' technique.


FIRST LOOK: Woodhead's Southern Cross University building

5 February 2010 | The practice is hoping this four-level, 'permeable' structure will create an identity for the rest of the development.


Rant on

1 February 2010 | Canada Pavilion is "shameful", Denise Scott Brown on why architecture is "heartbreaking" and Canberra's "dysfunctional" planning system.


Global round up

29 January 2010 | War plane converted into hotel suite in The Netherlands, Victoria Beckham asked to design luxury hotel in Dubai and London's Royal Docks could become waterside eco-town.


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