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 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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
By Natalie Rayment What would you be willing to trade-off to live in the city you want? Would you sacrifice affordability for more greenspace or better transport options…
