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architecture
Books & arts
What difference can a healthy building make?
Sarah Barns
13 July 2020
Covid-19 has supercharged concerns about how workplaces — and work patterns — are undermining good health
Books & arts
Where form really does follow function
Joe Rollo
15 December 2019
Architecture
| The former ETA Foods factory still pulls at the heart strings
Essays & reportage
Jørn Utzon’s magnificent obsession
Joe Rollo
25 August 2019
The Danish architect remained keenly engaged with unfinished business in Australia
International
Bolivia’s Neo-Andean visionary
Antonio Castillo
12 September 2018
Fuelled by new arrivals in the Bolivian capital, Indigenous architecture is on the rise in El Alto
Books & arts
How Melbourne became cool again
Alan Davies
27 March 2018
Books
| How did the Victorian capital regain the “intensive urbanity” that made it Australia’s leading city in the 1890s?
Books & arts
The shock of the old
Joe Rollo
27 March 2018
Books
| Australia’s experimental domestic architecture of the 1950s and 60s still challenges mainstream design
Essays & reportage
The battle for The Rocks
Jim Colman
12 September 2016
Unions, residents and community groups took on a powerful government agency to thwart plans for the wholesale redevelopment of Australia’s oldest suburb, writes
Jim Colman
Books & arts
Revolutionary Sydney
Andrew Dodd
3 February 2015
Books
| Three men and a city in turmoil.
Andrew Dodd
reviews two new books about Sydney’s formative years
Books & arts
The man who wasn’t there
Sylvia Lawson
19 March 2013
Sylvia Lawson
on the ABC’s triumphant return to the Opera House
Books & arts
Why don’t we design better suburbs?
Peter Spearritt
26 February 2013
Peter Spearritt
reviews a new book about the heyday of innovative and egalitarian housing in Australia