By Natalie Rayment Lazing by the river on a Sunday afternoon in a grassy park. The sun dances on the water. Yet another glorious Spring day in Brisbane. Other people…
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By Natalie Rayment “We’re on a mission from God!” Elwood Blues proclaims in the 1980 classic film, “The Blues Brothers”. Their holy mission is to save the orphanage from being…
By Natalie Rayment It’s the century of the city, a decade of densification in an urban millennium. In the space of a New York Minute, cities are growing up fast. …
GoGet CEO, Tristan Sender, in front of Australia’s largest car share ‘pod’ at Central Park, Sydney. Image: GoGet
Cutting Back on Our Car Parking Addiction
By Natalie Rayment While cutting back on avolattes may help some people get into the housing market faster, real affordability gains can actually be made by cutting back on another…
By YIMBY Qld While Brisbane performed poorly in last year’s livability benchmarks, the “globally minded metropolis” is back on the list. Brisbane has ranked 23 on the highly regarded Monocle…
By Natalie Rayment You know acronyms have taken over the English language when the FBI releases a guide to its agents of the thousands of new acronyms and shortenings the…
By Natalie Rayment ‘First things first. Get the champagne,’ said Winston Churchill in 1931. It’s time to celebrate a win for good development outcomes in Brisbane. Earlier this week, the…
By Natalie Rayment Traffic congestion is one of the top three concerns that people have about population growth in South East Queensland*. During recent community consultation for the Draft City…
La Lira Theater Public Open Space, Girona, Spain by RCR Arquitectes. Image by Nathan Bishop on Flickr CC 2.0
Pritzker Win for Design Excellence
By Natalie Rayment Only two days ago, Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta of RCR Arquitectes were awarded the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize. This is generally known as the…
By Natalie Rayment Construction of a new office tower, residential tower and retail building is happening right now at 300 George St in Brisbane’s CBD for the “Brisbane Quarter” Development….
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By Natalie Rayment It’s the century of the city, a decade of densification in an urban millennium. In the space of a New York Minute, cities are growing up fast. …
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Thank you to Jane Pinder and the team at The Courier-Mail for a great piece at the weekend that revealed good development actually leads to increased greenspace rather than destroying…
By Natalie Rayment The community initiated a state ministerial call-in of a development approval for the West Village Project at West End. A ministerial call-in allows the relevant Minister to…
By Natalie Rayment Being the ‘King of Cool’, if Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli were a millennial he would have a deconstructed coffee and some smashed avo for breakfast at the local…
