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• Rescuing Architecture: Stories of Buildings Saved from Demolition

  25-08-2023 08:30 via archdaily.com
  
  Mäusebunker Building in Berlin. Image © bullahuthIn terms of urban development, the choice between demolition and adaptive reuse holds far-reaching implications. From debates around the cultural and historical significance of structure, to the environmental impact of the process of razing and rebuilding, compared to the cost of preserving and adapting, the matter of demolitions have ignited the architectural community to come together and ask for more responsible assessment strategies
  
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• Cremorne’s first build-to-rent development to introduce 263 new apartments

  12-10-2026 07:40 via architectureau.com
  
  The proposal, designed by Six Degrees Architects, includes a 16-storey tower with a range of dwelling layouts.
  
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• Canberra Airport calls for a ‘world class’ central stadium

  12-10-2026 07:33 via architectureau.com
  
  The stadium bid seeks the construction of a venue that “matches the city’s ambition and reflects its status as the national capital.”
  
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• Mistaking architectural literalism

  12-10-2026 07:30 via architectureau.com
  
  Responding to Elizabeth Farrelly’s September column on architectural literalism, Melbourne architect Eli Giannini argues that while sustainability is often reduced to tokenistic gestures, its architectural symbolism remains crucial to advancing a more environmentally responsible building agenda.
  
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• Melbourne Design Week invites applications for its 2027 program

  12-10-2026 07:17 via architectureau.com
  
  The annual 11-day festival gathers designers, researchers, industry experts and enthusiasts to exchange ideas, exhibit new work and network.
  
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• Winners of the 2026 Australian Good Design Awards revealed

  12-10-2026 01:56 via architectureau.com
  
  Projects exhibiting “excellence in design and innovation” have been recognised across several award categories.
  
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• How to collaborate with other architects

  11-10-2026 23:44 via architectureau.com
  
  Jayson Blight, James Wilson and Isabelle Toland discuss the nature of collaboration between architectural practices, unpacking how fee and service agreements, as well as workflows, are managed to deliver projects of various scales and typologies.
  
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• Where We Work: Studio Shand

  09-10-2026 01:53 via architectureau.com
  
  A new monthly series exploring the inner workings of design studios around Australia
  
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• Toorak House by Pop Architecture

  08-10-2026 22:00 via architectureau.com
  
  Precise intervention and delicate restoration revive the kitchen and bathing spaces of a 1970s residence, paying tribute to the original home’s modernist sensibilities.
  
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• House in Rosebery by Architect George

  08-10-2026 22:00 via architectureau.com
  
  Kitchen and courtyard take centrestage in this cleverly reimagined worker’s cottage, achieving a flexible home for active family life.
  
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• Vale Roger Pegrum 1938–2026

  08-10-2026 02:52 via architectureau.com
  
  Emeritus professor Mads Gaardboe refects on the life and career of Canberran architect Roger Pegrum, who he describes as “a man of quality and grace and ... one of the national capital’s most influential architects.”
  
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• Torbreck 2.0 by Kin Architects

  08-10-2026 02:29 via architectureau.com
  
  An apartment inside Brisbane’s Torbreck is immersed in vivid deep-sea hues in tribute to the client’s love for the ocean and to the distinctive modernist building it sits within.
  
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• Lillywill Terrace by Sam Crawford Architects

  08-10-2026 02:28 via architectureau.com
  
  On an unusual wedge-shaped site, this clever update to a heritage-listed Sydney residence borrows space from the verandahs to create two shower pods filled with natural light.
  
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• New building destined for Sydney’s Bay Street Depot

  08-10-2026 02:12 via architectureau.com
  
  Andrew Burges Architects and Second Edition’s competition-winning design for the new facility is envisaged as having a “100-year civic life.”
  
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• Australian projects recognised as ‘world’s most beautiful’ in 2026 Prix Versailles selections

  08-10-2026 02:10 via architectureau.com
  
  An Australian campus and passenger station have been named as global exemplars of architecture and design, with both now in contention to win world titles.
  
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• New competition calls for designers to invent ‘brick of the future’

  08-10-2026 01:54 via architectureau.com
  
  The competition seeks submissions from architects, designers and students in pursuit of an innovative brick shape that expands a facade’s potential, with the winner awarded a trip to the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale Vernissage.
  
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• Patricia II by Hecker Guthrie

  07-10-2026 00:22 via architectureau.com
  
  Hecker Guthrie brings the spirit of Melbourne coffee institution Patricia Coffee Brewers to a new heritage setting, preserving its distinctive rituals while introducing a more domestic feel.
  
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• 2026 ArchiTeam Awards finalists revealed

  06-10-2026 03:38 via architectureau.com
  
  This year, 44 projects across seven categories have been recognised as finalists in the Architeam Awards.
  
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• Preston Market precinct development plan open for public feedback

  06-10-2026 01:29 via architectureau.com
  
  The masterplan designed by Six Degrees Architects in consultation with Sean Godsell Architects, retail architect Mosquito Architects and landscape architect Oculus proposes new market space and residential towers up to 16 storeys high.
  
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• Open House Hobart 2026 program launches

  06-10-2026 01:14 via architectureau.com
  
  The program sees over 70 buildings and experiences across Hobart and surrounding areas open on 7 and 8 November.
  
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• Arts Centre Melbourne's refurbished Ian Potter State Theatre reopens

  06-10-2026 00:06 via architectureau.com
  
  The renewal of the Ian Potter State Theatre, designed by NH Architecture and Snøhetta, marks the theatre’s “first major refurbishment since opening in 1984.”
  
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• Norton Street by Plus Minus Design

  05-10-2026 06:26 via architectureau.com
  
  Attending to the strict rules of an alternative planning pathway and the challenges of a steep site, a pair of new dwellings in Sydney’s east employ clever planning and careful detailing to create generous spaces that feel uncharacteristically luxurious.
  
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• Essential insights on regenerating Country

  04-10-2026 23:48 via architectureau.com
  
  Find out more on the topic of regenerating Country through expert insights, podcasts and more.
  
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• First Building, Bradfield by Hassell with Djinjama

  04-10-2026 23:47 via architectureau.com
  
  This intentionally recessive design is based on a goal to do as little harm and to use as little material as possible, employing a regenerative approach to its greenfield site with the aim to act as a precedent in the new planned city of Bradfield.
  
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• Brunswick and Gertrude by Openwork and Sarah Lynn Rees

  04-10-2026 23:46 via architectureau.com
  
  Plants, animals, insects and birds are invited back to this corner park, located on a prominent intersection in Melbourne’s Fitzroy, which also offers a place to reflect on the area’s significant First Nations history and culture.
  
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• Moondani Balluk by Realm Studios

  04-10-2026 23:45 via architectureau.com
  
  Located amid the brutalist buildings of a university campus in Melbourne’s west, a new garden with a deep cultural heritage aspect invites visitors to learn of First Nations’ past use of the site and how they use it today, while also conveying how it might be protected into the future.
  
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• Spotlight on: Regenerating Country

  04-10-2026 23:43 via architectureau.com
  
  As Australia’s urban disruption continues, it’s more important than ever for designers to ensure their work is honouring Country properly – including by actively regenerating it, writes Danièle Hromek.
  
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• The Design Dozen with Robert Davidov

  02-10-2026 05:04 via architectureau.com
  
  Each month we ask an Australian designer our twelve burning questions about design. We call it The Design Dozen. This month we sit down with the founder and director of Davidov Architects, Robert Davidov.
  
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• Houses Kitchen + Bathrooms 21 preview

  02-10-2026 02:56 via architectureau.com
  
  This issue of Houses: Kitchens and Bathrooms is filled with inviting kitchens and bathrooms designed for everyday ease.
  
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• Hanslope House by Olaver Architecture

  02-10-2026 02:39 via architectureau.com
  
  Offering a subtle rather than a subversive evolution of the suburban home, this flexible family residence arranges two brick pavilions around generous private gardens.
  
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