Commercial property design

When hit Channel 9 renovation series The Block first aired in 2003, it was rundown residential properties that took centre stage.

THE Block’s overhaul of the infamous Gatwick Hotel is expected to boost St Kilda’s housing market and hospitality scene, ultimately making Fitzroy St “as popular as Chapel St”.

An illuminated cloud-shaped hotel, gardens on the roof of a skyscraper and a tower designed to look like a propeller are among the shortlisted designs for a $2 billion skyscraper at Southbank in Melbourne.

The “bones” of Melbourne’s tallest building will be on show this weekend, as doors rarely entered by the public swing open across the city. 

Linking old with new, the $1.1 billion Herston Quarter, central Brisbane, is set to be one of the city’s largest and most complex biomedical precincts.

A German firm has won an international design competition for what will be one of Sydney’s tallest residential buildings. 

The family that owns the Robin Hood pub in Sydney’s east want to create a retail laneway behind it similar to Broadway’s Kensington St, with new restaurants and cafes and even bee hives on the roof.

Multinational tech giant Google on Thursday cut the ribbon in its new Melbourne office, but declared its Australian headquarters will remain in Sydney.

A pioneering timber building in Melbourne is seeking its first tenants, with the Docklands property open for pre-commitments ahead of its construction.