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  • 1 week ago | smh.com.au | Julie Power

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A family home inspired by The Simpsons episode where a naked Homer and Marge visit the Garden of Eden and the project to build underground stations for Sydney’s $21.6 billion new metro line have won top honours at this year’s state architecture awards.

  • 1 week ago | smh.com.au | Julie Power

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Even by the miserable standards of more than a century ago, the Workmen’s Dwellings in Sydney’s The Rocks were considered dark and gloomy. Now they’re a popular Instagrammable backdrop often used in wedding photos.

  • 1 week ago | smh.com.au | Julie Power

    By Julie Power June 17, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Long before Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson crossed NSW’s Blue Mountains, First Nations peoples braved its frozen ground in the last ice age to socialise or trade.

  • 1 week ago | smh.com.au | Julie Power

    By Julie Power June 15, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A new model of permanent housing designed for people with schizophrenia could reduce the chance of another Bondi Junction tragedy by providing supported housing for life, say experts. And it costs a fraction of a night in hospital or jail, where many homeless people with chronic mental illnesses end up if they live on the streets or in refuges.

  • 2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Julie Power

    By Julie Power June 14, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It is difficult to find a Sydney apartment block with direct sunlight and an uninterrupted view in every unit. Usually, the situation is either/or. Google dark houses/dark units, or “my plants all die”, and myriad sites offer advice.

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Lisa Allen

Associate Editor at The Australian

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Joshua Hanrahan

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Julie Power
Julie Power @juliepower
7 Dec 24

Thank you: I’m hoping Ellen comes back from the dead so she can be my new best friend. Sad I never got to meet her.

Philip Thalis
Philip Thalis @PhilipThalis

This is such a sweet story about public good @juliepower A woman artist sells her house on her death to Council so that they can extend cliff top public walk south of Coogee. Great to celebrate such community-minded deeds & extend #publicsydney https://t.co/SbWKP94WnW

Julie Power
Julie Power @juliepower
26 Sep 24

Packed auditorium waiting to hear from gold medallion winner @PhilipThalis by @SustainableTall .. many architects including lots of students. #architecture https://t.co/MkWkNQzFN4

Julie Power
Julie Power @juliepower
8 Sep 24

NSW drivers to be tracked in average speed camera plan https://t.co/mxQ8SvsQx8