Opinion
Sex & relationships
Romance isn’t quite dead in our house. We like to watch
In fact, romance is streaming episodically into our lounge room. Who needs to go out for date night?
- by Julie Power
Latest
Exclusive
Affordable housing
The plan to add thousands of affordable apartments in Sydney’s inner west
A pilot project in Marrickville, by award-winning architects, will provide dozens of homes at well below market rates.
- by Julie Power
It started with 100 plants in a secret Sydney canyon – now they’re popping up all around the world
A worldwide experiment is helping save an ancient Australian tree from extinction.
- by Julie Power
The French solution for Sydney’s apartment blocks
The winners of the world’s most prestigious architectural prize know how to turn dark and dingy units into light-filled spaces.
- by Julie Power
Updated
Defence
‘Willing to do anything for anyone’: Friend’s tribute to crash victim
The four Defence Force aircrew missing after Friday night’s MRH-90 Taipan helicopter crash near Lindeman Island have been identified.
- by Julie Power and Sarah McPhee
Marvel of engineering, Sydney Harbour Bridge cut through neighbourhoods, razed homes
When the first sod was turned at North Sydney 100 years ago today to mark the beginning of construction, it was a day of hope-filled ceremonies and speeches.
- by Julie Power
There’s a secret behind this $28m Sydney apartment block that few people know about
It has no granite benches nor air-conditioning, and nothing is decorative. But the residents of this Warwick Farm apartment block couldn’t be happier to be moving in.
- by Julie Power
The women building tiny houses to get a space of their own
The desire for small, five-square-metre houses has been amplified by social media streams documenting life with photos of picture-perfect tiny homes.
- by Julie Power
Why it took 100 years to restore the dignity of Nanny Nellie
A family’s fight to right the wrongs against a woman who was used without consent for a naked sculpture.
- by Julie Power
‘Where is the Opera House?’ City volunteers reveal most common tourist questions
Volunteer Sydney ambassadors, called the red shirts, are often the first locals that visitors to Australia meet. They have to be prepared to answer endless innocent questions.
- by Julie Power
Breathtaking NSW design vies for world’s top architecture prize
An Australian project to build a $3 million night-sky lookout where the Milky Way passes directly overhead will compete in what has been dubbed the Olympics of architecture.
- by Julie Power