26/11/2025 / Insights
Surry Hills: The Best Suburb in Australia and Why Every Developer Should Pay Attention
Surry Hills is a neighbourhood with soul, scars and enormous potential; the way we design and develop it from here will define its legacy.
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21/10/2025 / Insights
Greenfield is in focus, but this time it must be smarter
Place Strategy Director, Tom Oliver Payne, shares his thoughts on how to build compact, character-rich greenfield communities that carry a clear identity and narrative from day one.
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17/10/2025 / Insights
Big, Blank, and Boring: Let’s Fix the Way We Build Data Centres
If we can design shopping centres, stadiums, and airports that inspire, why not data centres writes Andrew Hoyne.
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09/10/2025 / Insights
Unlocking Our Riverfronts
Andrew Hoyne shares his thoughts on why our cities must stop treating riverfronts as forgotten industrial edges, and start unlocking them for housing, ecology and civic life.
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17/09/2025 / Insights
Rooftops: Australia’s front door to connection, commerce and community
Look up. From gardens to gyms to open-air cinemas, activated rooftops boost value, vibrancy and tenant appeal.
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10/09/2025 / Insights
Geelong can be brilliant or bland. The choice is now.
History shows us that places thrive when they embrace density, culture and connectivity. The question for Geelong isn’t whether it can do this. It’s whether it will, writes Andrew Hoyne.
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21/08/2025 / Insights
Experience – the new currency in urban development
Immersive experiences are reshaping city-making with proven financial success.
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17/07/2025 / Insights
Bold policy can turn youth into Adelaide’s economic edge
Andrew Hoyne on how the SA capital can become Australia’s first choice for top talent.
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08/07/2025 / Insights
From Vision to Legacy: Build with purpose. Deliver with impact.
In this reflection from the 2025 Placemaking Summit, Hoyne’s Strategy Director Tom Payne challenges us to treat purpose not as a phase, but as a thread.
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21/08/2024 / Events
The Parramatta promise
Parramatta Road could transform from a boulevard of broken dreams to a promenade of possibilities.
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