A 170-kilometre-long desert skyscraper? A subterranean city? Inside MBS’s Saudi dream

A 170-kilometre-long desert skyscraper? A subterranean city? Inside MBS’s Saudi dream

Saudi Arabia’s sci-fi-style giga-project is bankrolled by a regime not known for supporting individual liberties,but it has the support of a surprising number of Australians.

  • byNick Bryant

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Perth is awash with a certain type of home – and it’s making our housing crisis worse

Perth is awash with a certain type of home – and it’s making our housing crisis worse

A leading Perth architect also claims some of the biggest culprits in the housing crisis are the men and women who should be helping solve it.

  • byMark Naglazas
The Goldilocks solution to Sydney’s housing crisis

The Goldilocks solution to Sydney’s housing crisis

Sydneysiders have revealed strong preferences about where and how they want to live,and how they feel about their neighbours.

  • byJulie Power
Sydney Opera House or armadillo? This new stadium looks very familiar

Sydney Opera House or armadillo? This new stadium looks very familiar

A new baseball stadium in Las Vegas is being compared to the design of one of Australia’s most famous landmarks. But is it an accident or intentional?

  • byHelen Pitt
Crisis talks:Housing and sustainability challenges injects urgency into Perth Design Week

Crisis talks:Housing and sustainability challenges injects urgency into Perth Design Week

Once regarded as an indulgence for the leisure classes,architecture and design is now at the centre of the conversation.

  • byMark Naglazas
It’s in the male
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It’s in the male

Part and parcel of the delivery game.

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Marrickville’s dead birds a cautionary tale about our love of shiny glass

Marrickville’s dead birds a cautionary tale about our love of shiny glass

An Inner West councillor is concerned by the number of lorikeets “striking” the clean glass on Marrickville Metro’s new footbridge.

  • byMary Ward
Saved from demolition by one vote,the Exhibition Building is in danger of becoming a white elephant

Saved from demolition by one vote,the Exhibition Building is in danger of becoming a white elephant

Victoria must decide:is the Royal Exhibition Building to be cherished as one of Australia’s great monuments,or will it be allowed to become a white elephant … again?

  • byTony Wright
The Exhibition Building is as important to Melbourne as the Eiffel Tower is to Paris

The Exhibition Building is as important to Melbourne as the Eiffel Tower is to Paris

The government has axed funding to conservation of heritage buildings after spending $89 million on the recent restoration of its own house on Spring Street.

  • byJoe Rollo
Dunny lanes of Sydney:Hidden opportunity could address housing crisis

Dunny lanes of Sydney:Hidden opportunity could address housing crisis

Sydney’s back lanes may look messy,but a Sydney architect has shown how a laneway block can double density and provide a Zen-like home that also screens out the neighbours.

  • byJulie Power
Backyard zen:From suburban angst to zen garden
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Backyard zen:From suburban angst to zen garden

The pruning of the Japanese Maple tree by garden designer Shunmyo Masuno,from Yokohama.