As is the tradition for Architecture & Design, we depart for a Christmas break with a look at some of the biggest stories of the year.
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A recently completed four bedroom home in Byron Bay which appeared on Lifestyle channel's Grand Designs Australia, has sold for a multi- million dollar loss.
Pictured to the right, 21 Brownell Drive, Byron Bay, designed by Molnar Freeman and Popov Bass Architects has views of Wategos Beach and Julian Rocks.
Image courtesy of McGrath.
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Shipping containers are being used more often to create beautiful buildings. This article features five homes made out of them.
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UK-based magazine Building Design announced its 2013 World Architecture 100 list, with a number of Australian firms making the international ranking of architecture firms by size.
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Four of the world’s most prominent architects are competing to design James Packer’s $1 billion six-star Crown Tower proposal for Barangaroo in Sydney.
In the end, the aboove design by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, from London, was chosen unanimously by the design jury.
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A new national initiative, which aims to increase green spaces in our cities by 20 per cent by 2020, launched with an event at The Goods Line in Sydney near the Powerhouse Museum.
Artist impressions of The Goods Line. Images: ASPECT Studios.
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The Australian Graduate survey has once again shown Architecture & Building to have the highest salary disparity between genders of any industry.
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The University of Queensland’s Global Change Institute (GCI), designed by HASSELL in collaboration with Bligh Tanner, Arup and Medland Metropolis, has become the first building in the world to utilise cement-free concrete for suspended construction.
The Global Change Institute, designed by HASSELL. Photography by Angus Martin.
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Cox Rayner Architects design National Maritime Museum of China: international competition win
Queensland’s Cox Rayner Architects has won an international competition to design the National Maritime Museum of China.
Cox Rayner's design. Images courtesy Courier Mail
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The Victorian Coalition Government has approved the Fender Katsalidis designed Australia 108 tower which will be Melbourne's tallest mixed-use tower.
The tower will be the tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere with an innovative prefabricated structural technology used for a fast construction time.
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A local and international team led by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) + Andersen Hunter Horne have been selected to complete the central Barangaroo masterplan.
For those who made it this far, you might be interested to read on and recount the Top 10 of 2012.
From the team at Architecture & Design, we look forward to bringing you all the latest industry and products news in 2014. Happy holidays!
