Architecture
‘I was in shock for a week after being told I’d inherited an 88-room mansion’
At age 40, Caroline Magnus was bequeathed the country estate where Atonement was filmed.
- by Eleanor Doughty
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The story of Reginald Grouse and his very cool house
This Japanese-inspired two-storey brick house – designed by architect Reginald Grouse more than 60 years ago – remains a thing of beauty decades later.
- by Stephen Crafti
How Paris rebuilt the ‘people’s cathedral’ in just five years
On April 15, 2019, the world watched in disbelief as much of the Gothic building vanished from the Paris skyline. Many didn’t believe the reconstruction promise.
- by Rob Harris
Inside the Sydney house that sends a message to the top end of town
There’s no shoe room or six-car garage, but a sustainable house in one of the city’s most exclusive beachside suburbs is full of surprises.
- by Julie Power
Opinion
Opinion
Family compound escapes demolition, becomes elegant home
Large home plots in Melbourne’s blue-chip Toorak tend to be a prime target for demolition.
- by Stephen Crafti
Analysis
Good Weekend
Less ‘timidness’, more confidence: What our newest embassy buildings tell the world
Our consulate in Washington, DC, recently won a big gong. Like our embassies in Jakarta and Bangkok, it projects a new image of Australia to the world.
- by Luke Slattery
Living in the ’70s: Reinventing a Bayview beach house
The decade was defined by great music, cheap fuel and homes with open-plan living, but this residence missed out on that last key attribute.
- by Stephen Crafti
Three of the world’s most impressive hotel atriums are in the same city
Singapore’s dizzying architectural masterpieces have their origins with a style that sprung into being in America during the 1960s and ’70s.
- by Penny Watson
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Art & design
$200m glow-up: Sydney’s first skyscraper gets a glittering makeover
More than 75,000 tiles were manufactured to replace original glass mosaics encased in ugly pebblecrete on the walls of Sydney’s first high-rise tower. The effect is shimmering.
- by Linda Morris
The Sydney suburbs where home buyers pay top dollar for tiny blocks
Architects have come up with clever ways to live in terraces and small homes close to parks and playgrounds, and buyers are on board.
- by Kristy Johnson
It was a bank, a nightclub and a failed bike hub. Now this Oxford Street icon has a new fate
A Taylor Square landmark that has sat dormant for more than 15 years is set for a new lease on life after plans were approved to add three storeys and a rooftop, and transform the basement into a live music venue.
- by Michael Koziol