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Sanders Place interior showing trees growing in garden within concrete floor

Culture

Box office hit: Sanders Place

NMBW Architecture Studio’s innovative inner-Melbourne office conversion exposes the true cost of Modernism’s ‘less is more’

Parramatta Aquatic Centre seen from above

Culture

Full circle: The Parramatta Aquatic Centre

The sunken circle of Grimshaw and ABA’s public pool design is a nod to Governor Brisbane’s nearby 19th-century Bath House

A public-housing brick three-storey building in Ascot Vale

Culture

A house provided: Preserving public housing

The architectural practice proving that refurbishing public housing can be less expensive and disruptive than demolition for new projects

Cover of ‘Migrations from Memory’

Culture

Aaron Peters and Stuart Vokes’ ‘Migrations from Memory’

A slender and witty volume from Brisbane architects presents ways to combat the city’s supersized houses and disconnection from the streets

Image of slide and rocks from ‘Rocks on Wheels’, Southbank, Melbourne

Culture

Slide and the family stone: Mike Hewson

The artist playing with risk and constructing public spaces that make wry observations of how we treat nature in our urban environments

Aerial view of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ new buildings

Culture

Modern times: AGNSW’s new galleries

In Sydney Modern, Pritzker Prize–winning architects SANAA have delivered the gallery a cluster of pavilions with an emphasis on movement and people-watching

Image of Bundanon

Culture

Shades of grey: Kerstin Thompson Architects

The lauded Melbourne-based architectural firm showcases a rare ability to sensitively mediate between the old and the new

Cover of ‘Building for Hope’

Culture

‘Building for Hope’ by Marwa al-Sabouni

The Syrian architect and writer makes a case for war being a consequence of modern architecture destroying the social fabric

Image of Longhouse, Daylesford, Victoria.

Culture

Plans never imagined: Architect Timothy Hill

The ‘Longhouse’ and the ‘Multihouse’ confirm the director of Partners Hill as the country’s most important and influential architect of the past 30 years

Illustration

Culture

A traditional landscape

The UAE hosts a rare public exhibition for the colossal native title painting ‘Ngurrara Canvas II’

Illustration

Culture

Walking the Wukalina Walk

A new four-day tour in Tasmania is owned and guided by Aboriginal people

Image of Australian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale

Culture

Two worlds at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale

The consumption of space, land and habitat is Australia’s focus at the world’s pre-eminent architecture event

Illustration

Society

Walking the Wukalina Walk

A new four-day tour in Tasmania is owned and guided by Aboriginal people

Illustration

Culture

SOS

Brutalist masterpiece or harbour eyesore? Sydney’s Sirius building faces an uncertain future

Roof detail of the Australian Islamic Centre

Culture

Murcutt’s mosque

The Australian Islamic Centre is notable for what it isn’t as much as for what it is

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