architecture

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 Balam Balam Place

Brunswick’s open access community centre, Balam Balam Place, is a small marvel of public generosity.

architecture   September 27, 2025

Shanghai Picnic

The second architectural biennale at Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum brings ordinary joys to a public space.

architecture   July 12, 2025

Taglietti Life in Design

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

Bondi Junction Boot Factory

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.