A DREAM home inspired by Sydney Opera House is taking shape - after a businessman, fed up with professionals, asked students to design it.
While the exterior of the £1m building in Titchfield has been designed by professional architects, the interiors will be drawn from the creative talents of college students.
The mammoth building, named ‘Dreamfield’, will [...]

Australian group Leighton Contractors will team with the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority, Maunsell Australia Pty Limited, SMEC Australia Pty Limited and Coffey Geotechnics Pty Limited to deliver a portion of the “Accelerated Southern Hume Duplication Package”, a New South Wales and Australian Government funded initiative. The $300 – 400 million package of [...]

Last May, in response to an open call from Project New Orleans, hundreds of ideas aimed at rebuilding the city began arriving on foam core project boards at the School of Architecture. The organization, dedicated to compiling and disseminating ideas for rebuilding the city, solicited architecture schools across the nation for projects, proposals and ideas [...]

London 2012 chiefs have defended the way they handed out building contracts for the Olympic stadium after criticism from a leading architect.
In a story in Friday’s Financial Times Richard Rogers, a member of the Olympic design review panel, was reported to be threatening to boycott the stadium project because design considerations had not been made [...]

AN undercover “urban park” features in the winning plan for the last big development site at Brisbane’s South Bank.
As foreshadowed in The Australian last month, Brisbane developer Anthony John Group has won the tender to develop a mixed-use project with an end value of more than $300 million on the 5500sqm site.
About 19 developers bid [...]

As a child, he made cities and freeways with his grandmother, preferring to use leftover pieces of wood instead of conventional building blocks.
He flunked an introductory course in architecture, and one of his first instructors — perhaps motivated by anti-Semitism — strongly urged him to try something else in life.
Fortunately for the world, Frank [...]

China’s top banking regulator has issued rules requiring lenders to be more discerning when issuing property credit, the government’s latest move to cool down the red-hot real estate sector.
In a nine-point directive issued on Wednesday, the China Banking Regulator Commission (CBRC), called on banks and other financial institutions to tighten their property lending management, apparently [...]

If the revolutionary design of Cardinals Stadium holds up over time, years from now people will see the facility and have the same reaction as they do today when they see, say, Mick Jagger.
“You know,” they’ll think as they drive by the stadium in 2036, “that’s still kind of cool.”
Staying power. That’s the main reason [...]

Will the third time be the charm?
Twice an architect has appeared before Charlottesville’s Board of Architectural Review with designs for a CVS drugstore slated for the corner of West Main Street and Ridge McIntire Road, and twice he’s been sent back to the drawing board.
The CVS would replace the RSC Equipment Rental building and a [...]

One of the people behind Sydney’s disastrous Cross City Tunnel has been named the new boss of the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA).
After a nine-month search for a new chief executive following the sacking of Paul Forward, Les Wielinga was appointed yesterday by state Roads Minister Eric Roozendaal.
Wielinga is currently the organisation’s Director of Motorways [...]

Architectural Firm, Marchese and Partners has introduced an alliance with graphic design and marketing firm, Addition Creative Pty Ltd. Addition is a boutique branding, design and marketing agency with over nine years combined experience in the property and retail market.
This collaboration is unique to the local property industry and means the architectural firm’s clients can [...]

Superstar architect Renzo Piano has tentatively agreed to design an 850-foot tower at First and Mission streets, a significant coup for city planners as they build support for a denser, taller neighborhood around the Transbay Terminal.
The building would be constructed on a development site that has been quietly assembled by David Choo, the president [...]