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Albury Railway Station

A loving heritage restoration sees this historic building furnished with brand new Termini Seats. Albury Railway Station first opened in 1882, when it was seen as a turning point towards Australian Federation as it was the first large transit stop to be built on the border of Victoria and New South Wales. The two states still used different gauge train tracks, so the longest undercover platform in the southern hemisphere (at the time) was built at Albury, to allow passengers to transition between lines. The Australian National Heritage List reports, “The connection of the New South Wales and Victorian railway systems at Albury-Wodonga gave a dramatic boost to the cause of Federation. “The connection was a long-heralded and much-vaunted engineering achievement, which was crowned with the architectural triumph of Albury Railway Station Building.” More than 130 years on, the grand, symmetrical Victorian Italianate building …

20 feb 2018

Kingscliff Foreshore

This $22-million foreshore revitalisation is designed to create a link between the beach, the new central park and the CBD for the highly engaged Kingscliff community. The project conducted community consultation at several points, to make a place that locals can call their own. “Everyone who has worked on this project has done an outstanding job and I know the community is excited to take ownership of their new park,” said Mayor of Tweed Shire, Councillor Katie Milne. Landscape Architect Ian Bentley led the design for Council, he says, “Before Rowan Robinson Park there wasn’t a place in Kingscliff for large gatherings, to watch bands, to accommodate thirty kids at a birthday party or a place to hang out and watch others pass by. With its completion the community now …

8 jun 2018

Home of the Arts

In 2018 the Gold Coast Arts Centre rebranded and relaunched as HOTA, Home of the Arts, an award-winning $37.5 million precinct rolling over 17 hectares including 3000 square metres of parkland. Inside are theatres, galleries, cinemas, function rooms, a chapel, cafe and two performance spaces. Outside are green spaces and a sculptural amphitheatre, the winner of two Queensland state Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards in 2018, shared by CUSP landscape architects and urban designers, ARM Architecture and German landscape architect Topotek 1. The design team won an international competition in 2013, which attracted more than 75 bids. HOTA is a short walk from Surfers Paradise and has the amphitheatre as its centrepiece, with capacity for 5000 people. The stage features a living green roof, with more than 20,000 specially-selected …