Melbourne design practice HASSEL and New York-based architecture firm Solid Objects Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) have been selected to lead a local and international team to transform Melbourne’s Arts Precinct in Southbank. The Melbourne Arts Precinct transformation project is set to include an elevated inner-city park and new pedestrian connections into and throughout the area to easily move from Southbank and the Yarra through Melbourne’s iconic St Kilda Road cultural institutions. The project will deliver 18,000 square metres of new and renewed open public space in what is considered to be one of Australi... more

Western Sydney University (WSU) has revealed the concept design for its latest high-rise campus in the Bankstown CBD. The highly-anticipated new campus is set to revitalise the CBD precinct and embed the university in the economic, social and civil life of Bankstown. Nestled between Bankstown’s Council administration building and the Library and Knowledge Centre, the campus is expected to deliver new jobs and educational opportunities within the heart of the community. WSU Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Barney Glover AO said: “Bankstown City campus will offer highly-accessible, technology-... more

One of Australia’s most renowned architects, Glen Murcutt AO, has just been announced as the esteemed designer of MPavillion 2019. Mr Murcutt is the only Australian recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2002) and is internationally recognised for environmentally sensitive and responsible designs with a distinctly Australian character. Now in its sixth year, the MPavillion is an annual series of architecture commissions initiated by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation and supported by the City of Melbourne, the State Government of Victoria through Creative Victoria, and ANZ. Each year the Naomi Mil... more

Daiwa House Australia and EG Developments have completed one of Sydney's most anticipated urban renewal projects, the ‘Flour Mill of Summer Hill’. Encompassing 2.4 hectares, the $340 million master-planned community has transformed the former Allied Mills industrial site into 360 contemporary apartments and terraces, across 11 separate buildings, surrounded by landscaped communal gardens, retail and commercial spaces. Designed by HASSELL, the site's heritage was reflected on the external character of the new structures, in addition to using the Mungo Scott building’s existing galvanised steel, off-fo... more

Deloitte Australia has agreed to take a 10-year lease spanning 32,000 square metres in AMP Capital’s Quay Quarter Tower at Circular Quay, Sydney.  Quay Quarter Tower is located at 50 Bridge Street and is owned by investors in the AMP Capital Diversified Property Fund, AMP Capital Wholesale Office Fund and Rest - who will acquire a one-third interest in the tower upon completion. The 200-metre-high, 50 storey, Quay Quarter Tower was designed by Danish architects, 3XN and is being built by leading construction company, Multiplex. Uniquely designed to be a tower that doesn’t feel like a high-rise, Qua... more

Following the recent devastating floods in Townsville and surrounding areas, small businesses will soon receive more assistance to get back on their feet thanks to the Queensland Government’s announcement of a Small Business Recovery Centre today. Member for Mundingburra, Coralee O’Rourke, welcomed the opening of the new hub to assist local businesses in the area. “The recent flooding has hit the local community hard and especially when residents are struggling to get their homes and businesses back up and running,” Ms O’Rourke said, “this new Small Business Recovery centre will provide our lo... more

The NSW Government is urging construction companies interested in delivering Project Discover, the Australian Museum’s planned $57.5 million redevelopment, to submit expressions of interest (EOI) before the upcoming 1 March deadline. In July 2018 NSW Minister for the Arts Don Harwin and Treasurer Dominic Perrottet announced that the Australian Museum would receive over $50 million in funding to expand its touring exhibition halls by 1500 square metres across two levels – allowing the museum to host either one large blockbuster exhibit or two exhibitions simultaneously. The first of which is set to be ... more

UNSW Sydney’s new $187 million Science and Engineering Building (SEB) is located on the corner of International Road and Third Avenue and spans 10 levels and features 24,500 square metres of modern teaching and research space. Designed by Grimshaw Architects, the SEB shares features with the adjacent Hilmer Building (delivered by Multiplex in 2015), enabling several of the UNSW’s schools within the Science, Engineering, Arts and Social Sciences faculties and the Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre to be co-located in two purpose-built and interconnected buildings. The SEB’s design is a consistent exten... more