• About-face: how Australian architects rethought the ‘wild west’ facade as a nod to conservation

    About-face: how Australian architects rethought the ‘wild west’ facade as a nod to conservation
    The desire to retain a building’s heritage features can lead to what designers call ‘empty facadism’ – but some are taking a more imaginative approachGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIn the 1980s an odd kind of construction began to appear in Australia’s city centres. In response to pleas to retain heritage structures amid a building boom, compromises were struck that preserved the facade of an old building typically two or th

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