Gemma Battenbough . Articles BREAKING NEWS: Mayor crops cancer centre tower After slating designs for the Garvan Cancer Centre last week, the Mayor of Sydney has submitted her own designs to the Department of Planning that crop BVN Architecture's 11-storey tower. Developers hit hard by downturn While Suncorp, Mirvac and Stockland are posting shocking profit losses since the downturn, one Perth developer is bucking the trend and notching up record profits. Deluxe makeover for Sydney sergeants' mess Located just 15km from the CBD on the water's edge in a Sydney national park, this former 60s military building has undergone a $3.8 million renovation. Mountain retreat provides fashion inspiration This beautiful private weekend residence in the mountains at Nagano was designed as a retreat for Tokyo fashion designer Setsumasa Kobayashi. What to do with abandoned McMansions? The winning proposal in the Reburbia design competition, Frog's Dream proposes to transform vacant McMansions into eco-water treatment machines. Australian architects 'mis-specifying' green walls As shocking pictures of the UK's first living wall reveal it brown and lifeless, a green wall expert warns that Australian architects are mis-specifying plants and irrigation.