Madeline Prince . Articles WA success story scoops building design awards Western Australia based firm Dane Design Australia has taken out the overall Design Excellence Award at the 2012 Building Designers Australia WA event held on 20 October. Re-designing Christchurch: a competition for architects An international competition is calling on architects to design and build a new urban village for Christchurch, New Zealand. Sydney Open 2012 - and your chance to win tickets Sydney Open will be held from 2-4 November and will give Sydneysiders and visitors a chance to see inside 70 of Sydney's private residential homes, office blocks and heritage sites. An injection of new DNA into Sydney's inner west DNA is a new residential development designed by Marchese Partners in Sydney's Camperdown set to be completed in 2014. Bates Smart: shedding light on science Bates Smart’s latest project the National Centre for Synchrotron Science building (NCSS) has been completed in Clayton, Melbourne. World Green Building Week - a tour of Sydney In celebration of the launch of World Green Building Week, Architecture and Design was invited by the Green Building Council to join a tour of some of Sydney's most sustainable buildings.