Tag: Infrastructure
WA government architect steps down
Western Australia’s first female government architect, Rebecca Moore, will be stepping down from the position.
Funding windfall for Newcastle Airport upgrade
Newcastle Airport has announced a $240 million partnership with Commonwealth Bank that would fund the airport’s redevelopment, including a new international passenger terminal.
Public aspiration: Metro North West Line
Eight new stations across Sydney’s north-western suburbs have been executed with admirable public aspiration and conviction – and under the assumption that the other infrastructure required for the burgeoning suburbs is forthcoming.
Heritage kiosk inspires new pier at popular Melbourne beach
Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and Site Office Landscape Architects have produced designs for a $50 million pier at St Kilda beach that will include a community pavilion and a Little Penguin viewing boardwalk.
Differing perspectives: Bridge of Remembrance
On a highly contested site, valued as both a place of memorial and a green space available for the people, DCM has worked with local partners and government to create a symbolic and functional structure that changes with viewpoint, inviting a variety of interpretations.
Funding boon for school building, housing in Victorian budget
The Victorian government is spending big on school buildings, social housing, cultural facilities, health and transport infrastructure in its 2020/21 budget.
Construction to start on Western Sydney Airport metro
An $11 billion rail link to the proposed Western Sydney Airport will start later in 2020 after the federal and state governments jointly pledged further funding for the project.
Recalling bygone grandeur: Rail Operations Centre
Memorializing the tectonics of tunnels, bridges and nineteenth-century suburban train stations, this red-brick, big-box building in inner-city suburban Sydney is a rich form of infrastructure architecture that represents an investment in workers and in the area’s rapidly changing urban fabric.
Infrastructure priorities in the face of bushfires, floods and droughts
Infrastructure Australia has outlined a list of priority infrastructure projects critical to rebuilding communities following natural disasters.
Botanical healing at the end of rainbow-coloured Kids Bridge
A pedestrian bridge from Perth Children’s Hospital to Kings Park could provide the potential for healing therapies in nature.
Australia’s urban infrastructure: a role for architect design professionals
Infrastructure – roads, rail and power supplies – is the lifeblood of our urban existence. Kim Crestani explores the expanding role of the architect in the physical, organizational structures and facilities that support our way of life.
Infrastructure Australia warns ‘more must be done’ to maintain quality of life
Infrastructure Australia has warned that despite rising rates of investment in infrastructure, “more must be done if we are to maintain, let alone enhance, our quality of life and economic efficiency.”
Expressions of interest sought for design of Western Sydney Airport terminal
A two-stage competitive process to find the architect of the new Western Sydney Airport terminal has begun.
Private sector proposal for $15 billion Melbourne airport rail link
A private consortium has unveiled a proposal to for 27-kilometre airport rail link for Melbourne.
Adelaide Airport’s $165m expansion approved
Adelaide Airport has announced its $165 million expansion project designed by Hassell has been approved.
Canberra’s roads, power poles and underpasses captured in paint
The award-winning Bowen Place Crossing by Lahznimmo and Spackman Mossop Michaels is one of the subjects of an exhibition of work by artist Chris Oates.
Australia’s first diagonal span arch bridge mooted for Parramatta
A proposed “practical and stylish” footbridge designed by Archipelago and Lat27 is set to become a new landmark of Parramatta.
Experts recommend significant changes to West Gate Tunnel project
Prominent architects, landscape architects and urban designers warn the Victorian government’s proposed West Gate Tunnel could “delay development.”
Work begins on transforming a German gas tank into a LAVA-designed ‘energy tower’
LAVA’s design will wrap a 1950s oil tank in a kinetic veil made up of 11,000 diamond-shaped plates.
‘Retrograde solution’: West Gate Tunnel Project a ‘permanent blight,’ says PIA
A submission by the Planning Institute of Victoria has taken issue with the Victorian government’s plans to connect central Melbourne to the city’s west via a major road and cross-river tunnel.
