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Sydney landmarks
The Opera House is spectacular, but it’s not Sydney’s best building
In all its well-deserved glory, it gobbles up oxygen to such an extent that other wow-factor buildings don’t get the credit they deserve.
- by Gary Nunn
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Meet the man trying to bring back Sydney’s verandahs
There’s an awning gap between the wide shady spaces of the streets of the past and cities we live in today. James Cottam wants them back.
- by Julie Power
The house design inspired by Australia’s bushfires
Finding ‘solar north’ for your new home is a good place to start when building for climate resilience.
- by Anders Furze
A contemporary apartment in Melbourne’s inner west receives a fresh look
New and old merge in this stylish home.
- by Heather Nette King
The day Mosman Council rejected Australia’s most famous architect
Glenn Murcutt designed a home for his friend Ken Done that was meant to be timeless. Then Mosman Council insisted on changes. Now the home has been restored.
- by Julie Power
After two decades as lord mayor, does Clover Moore deserve four more years?
Despite her achievements, many voters feel it is time for Sydney’s longest-serving leader to move on – but they’re not sure whether there is a better candidate.
- by Michael Koziol
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Beneath the living area of this Byron Bay house is an all-black concrete pool
The dramatic exterior of a house in the hinterland’s conceals a warm sanctuary inside.
- by Susan Redman
How a 1960s orange-brick warehouse became a home with steel that resembles fabric
Architect Stephen Jolson has transformed a 1960s warehouse into a spectacular home.
- by Stephen Crafti
Architects ‘treated like plumbers’: Inside the revolt against the NSW building bill
New laws designed to protect homeowners and deal with the state’s housing crisis might have the reverse effect, architects warn.
- by Julie Power
Why do movie villains have the best houses?
Forget the down-at-heel motel room – these days, the sophisticated cinema baddie is far more at home in a modernist masterpiece.
- by Simmone Howell