Plans for a six-storey building next to St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney have provoked opposition from churchgoers,heritage experts and a priest.
The fate of a church in Melbourne’s inner north raises questions about preserving the past and meeting the needs of the community.
For those who fought to save the Brutalist building in the Rocks as public housing,there is no forgiving its sell-off. But the updated building has the thumbs up from leading architects.
Opposition to the state government’s plan to raze 44 towers is mounting,including from a former Labor deputy prime minister and a 97-year-old industry icon,architect Peter McIntyre.
A remote Aboriginal community’s long and poisonous battle with Fortescue Metals Group over its iron ore-rich Pilbara land has reached the Federal Court.
The Point Cook base,which was essential to Australia’s WWII efforts,trained the country’s first pilots and sent them to war. Conservationists are fighting to save its “irreplaceable” buildings.
Woollahra Council in Sydney’s eastern suburbs is poised to create a new heritage-protected precinct directly opposite Edgecliff train station.
Croydon was one of 31 suburbs with train stations selected by the state government for higher density housing. Now that looks set to change.
Pulling threads in our heritage conservation areas risks unravelling the built history of our city,and it may not solve the housing crisis.
Waverley Council is vowing to fight any redevelopment proposal by the site’s owner,Harry Triguboff,who says he has no plan to build apartments there “at this stage”.
Traditional owners are seeking federal protection for their cultural heritage on land containing the Northern Territory’s famous Jabiluka uranium deposit.