Architecture

Former Adelaide gasworks to become inner-city 'village' The former Brompton Gasworks in Adelaide’s inner-west is set to be redeveloped into a new “village”, with the adaptive reuse of the old gasworks structures. Melbourne and Adelaide-based practice Forum is the architect and urban design consultant leading the project, which will create a “vibrant, inner-city destination that mixes the past with the future, blending history, sustainability and community,” said Forum director Ed […]

Paz Arquitectura created a compact mixed-use building in the middle of Guatemala's capital city with "strict geometry interlocked with constant movement". The 115,200-square foot (10,700-square metre) building known as AEME was completed in 2021. AEME is a mixed-use building "AEME tries to reflect the basic concepts of time," said studio founder Alejandro Paz. "Strict geometry interlocked with constant movement softens its rigorous formal shape, as time and nature do on […]

The City of Sydney has approved a development application for a podium extension of an existing office tower in Sydney’s CBD after a proposal was submitted for an addition designed by FJMT. The vision for the existing modernist tower – fronting Elizabeth, Park and Castlereagh streets in the city centre and opposite Hyde Park – is to turn it into an updated mixed-use building with more activated street engagement. The […]

The National Gallery of Australia is launching a book, celebrating one of the nation’s “most remarkable buildings”. Published in the year of the NGAs 40th anniversary, Vision: Art, Architecture and the National Gallery of Australia is an examination of the gallery building, which is a “bold combination of the sculptural and the functional”. Designed by architect Col Madigan of Edwards Madigan Torzillo and Briggs, the NGA was completed in 1981 […]