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The need to remove urban level crossings is a legacy of railways having been built expeditiously without concern for their performance. Level crossing removals allow fast, frequent rail services unrestricted by road-based transport. Level crossing removals focus attention on the fine grain of building more sustainable cities. Melbourne's first metropolitan strategy, the 1929 Plan for General Development, identified sixty-six level crossings in urgent need of removal from the 155 then in existence across the commission's study area. [Extracted from the article]

On a very public yet modest 0.89-hectare site adjacent to Admiralty train station, WOHA's design is both a community hub and an integrated public housing project. The building is punctuated by a robust and unconventional arrangement of multi-scalar and stratified, public and private, hard and soft, and communal and green spaces, and a rooftop community farm generating multiple ground planes. The top layer comprises a green community plaza with a childcare centre, an active ageing hub, two linked housing blocks of 104 flats for senior citizens (in configurations of thirty-six and forty-five square metres), a rooftop community farm and green terraces. [Extracted from the article]

The article describes several student projects from architecture's graduating classes of 2012 in Australia. They include Marinel Mabelle Dator's proposed rehabilitation facility within the Kuring-gai College, Damien Tammer's proposed design for the Centre for Contemporary Music an dDigital Culture, and Edwina Brisbane's four urban propositions for Melbourne, Victoria. It also describes a cultural playground, the Wikicastle, and a re-conception of a train station.

The article offers information on the Southern Cross Station project, designed by architectural firm Grimshaw Jackson in Melbourne, Victoria. The project cleverly bridges the urban void between Melbourne's Docklands and the western edge of the CBD grid. Moreover, Southern Cross Station, like the City of Melbourne's CH2, signals an approach to architecture in which urban design and iconicity is seen as being inseparable from a building's environmental attributes.