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…
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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….
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…
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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 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 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 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…
