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Clover Moore at Sydney Town Hall

Clover’s vision: Town Hall Square will be George Street on steroids

According to Sydney’s lord mayor, the new Town Hall Square will transform the city. There’s just one obstacle in the way.

  • Peter FitzSimons

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A warren of rooms, including the kitchen, dining room and lean-tos, at the back were replaced with one large generous open-plan kitchen and living area.

The Carlton terrace designed as a teenage ‘mess hall’

Teens often gift their parents mess and chaos, so this Carlton couple tried to design their way out of it.

  • Stephen Crafti
Architect Madeleine Blanchfield says living in a terrace house has much to recommend it, if it’s well oriented.

This housing style was once destined for the wrecking ball. Now it is winning new fans

Derided in parts of Sydney as a form of slum housing, this familiar residential style is now touted as a supply solution.

  • Robyn Willis
Jackson and then premier Steve Bracks with a model of the revamped MCG.

The man who built modern Melbourne – from the MCG, to Marvel to our first skyscraper

Among the striking designs to come from Daryl Jackson’s busy drawing board was the wonderfully named Harold Holt Memorial Swimming centre - but it was 120 Collins Street that got a few noses out of joint.

  • Tony Wright
Architect David George Holm draws Victoria Cross metro station.

David has a plan to use every precious square metre of Sydney’s space

This architect behind metro stations and the new airport has travelled the world drawing buildings and is determined to improve public spaces, no matter how small.

  • Julie Power
Render showing the new design for the Woolworths building opposite Sydney Town Hall.

The radical alternative to Sydney’s $150m civic square plan

The City of Sydney is forging ahead with divisive plans to bulldoze seven buildings to create a sprawling plaza opposite Town Hall.

  • Julie Power and Megan Gorrey
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Jason Gibney, director of Jason Gibney Design Workshop, designed the flame-proof house in New South Wales’ Central Coast.

This home’s robust exterior can withstand savage wildfires

Wrapped in fireproof fabric and clad entirely in compressed fibre cement, its design answers strict fireproofing guidelines.

  • Stephen Crafti
Christine Spencer outside her Robin Boyd-designed home in Wangaratta.

These examples of classic modernist architecture are where, exactly?

Design buffs regard these buildings by Robin Boyd as among the best of his work. And they’re all in a little suburban enclave far from Melbourne.

  • Benjamin Preiss
Carrie Anne Huddleston cried tears of joy when she met architect Dan Szwaj.

Affordable housing so good that architects want to live there too

“I could live here,” said an architect visiting a new public housing block. For resident Carrie Huddleston, it takes the stigma out of affordable accommodation.

  • Julie Power
Architect David Langston-Jones’ townhouses in Little Young Street, Redfern.

Cobalt blue, vermillion, bright yellow: How much colour really makes a great home?

A lot, if your name is Le Corbusier or Sydney architect David Langston-Jones.

  • Stephen Crafti