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…
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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….
By Jack Briant This post is the first in our “What I Learned from…” travel series based on the experiences of built environment professionals and city enthusiasts as they discover…
By Natalie Rayment You’ve lived in this suburb for most of your adult life. Your kids grew up here and your friends are close by. But, the house has become…
By Natalie Rayment A “tragic street lamp”, “ungainly skeleton” and “a hole-riddled suppository”. This is how protesters once described the proposed Eiffel Tower in the 1880s. There was even a…
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…
By Natalie Rayment It is a continuously evolving precinct within 3kms of Brisbane’s CBD that used to be home to the commander of the Beagle (of Charles Darwin fame) and…
By Natalie Rayment “Our challenge was to create a vital public place at the district – urban scale, in other words, to address the issue of mega scale and invent…
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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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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. …
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…
Plan Your Brisbane Intergenerational Forum with Marnie Wood A lack of understanding of current planning systems is leading to growing frustrations in our local communities. This was evident during the…
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