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architecture December 20, 2025
Best architecture: Melburnians are going wild
The Saturday Paper’s architecture critic looks back at the highlights of 2025.
architecture November 15, 2025
Brunswick’s open access community centre, Balam Balam Place, is a small marvel of public generosity.
architecture September 27, 2025
The second architectural biennale at Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum brings ordinary joys to a public space.
architecture July 12, 2025
For Enrico and Franca Taglietti, whose lives and work are memorialised in an exhibition at Canberra Museum and Gallery, Australia’s capital city was an architect’s dream.
architecture July 5, 2025
High marks for Scots College’s new student centre building
The Scots College’s new $60 million student centre has generated valid criticism, but the architecture itself has merit.
architecture May 10, 2025
Its vaulting civic space makes Archer Office’s redevelopment of the Bondi Junction Boot Factory a building of aspiration.
architecture February 8, 2025
The St Kilda Pier redevelopment
The redeveloped St Kilda Pier is a shining example of a structure that’s well conceived, designed and built, and brings new possibilities to a public space.
architecture December 21, 2024
Best architecture: diversity, quality and inventiveness on display
The Saturday Paper’s architecture critic looks back at the highlights of 2024.
architecture November 9, 2024
The restored Lucas Glass House
Winner of the heritage category in architecture’s Oscars, the restored Lucas Glass House is a modest structure on the very edge of the possible.
architecture September 4, 2024
Sydney Metro City line on track for greatness
The new Sydney Metro City line is one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Australia – and it has moments of the sublime.
architecture July 6, 2024
Design contest entries offer fresh ideas on aged care
As the designs for the Reimagining Where We Live competition show, residential care for the elderly can encompass a lot more than warehousing people until they die.