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Good architecture and design makes our daily lives better, and this is a contribution worth recognising. With public voting now open for the City of Adelaide Prize, we asked each finalist why their project merits your vote.

A true treat for wine and architecture buffs alike (and foodies, too). One of the great and most comprehensive Australian wine tourism offerings.

Whilst not saying that everything in our cities is crass - we have a fine tradition of making great public monuments, in what Leon Krier calls the ‘Res Publica’ - it is the vast bulk of the ‘Res Economica’, the everyday built environment of housing and commerce that makes our cities so mediocre.

According to a new study led by researchers from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, protected natural areas in the UK are struggling to halt declines in insects and spiders that have occurred over the last 30 years (UKCEH). Nature reserves, Special Areas of Conservation, and other forms of protected habitat have long been regarded as critical tools in conservation efforts to preserve and restore natural habitats.

According to a new study led by researchers from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, protected natural areas in the UK are struggling to halt declines in insects and spiders that have occurred over the last 30 years (UKCEH).

Readers discuss the Victoria, including the election.

If neighbours can’t be confident that new apartments will be well-designed and well-built, it’s no surprise that they lodge objections.

If neighbours can’t be confident that new apartments will be well-designed and well-built, it’s no surprise that they lodge objections.

The Walls Around Us, a design competition overseen by the Robin Boyd Foundation, invites students to design two houses on the site of the Boyd House in South Yarra.

Boyd is Fiji’s new Deputy Supervisor of Elections