Planning
Mooted tower near QVM could destroy iconic art laneway
An iconic street art laneway in Melbourne’s CBD could face the wrecking ball after the City of Melbourne approved plans to build an adjoining 41-storey tower development.
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Push for a better-designed city welcomes local input
The City of Melbourne’s newly appointed Design Excellence Advisory Committee brings together industry experts, academics and community members to work through design challenges and opportunities facing Melbourne. CBD News spoke with two locals who form part of the inaugural committee.
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Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia returns!
The Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA) will return to the Melbourne screens with the theme for 2021 “Únik”, which translates to “escapism”.
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Thank you to our community healthcare heroes and everyone getting vaccinated
On my way to Parliament recently, I popped in to say hello and thank you to the amazing nurses and staff from Cohealth and the City of Melbourne who are running a pop-up vaccination clinic at Melbourne Town Hall.
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Zero emissions vehicles
Have you noticed that the air is clearer with less vehicle movements under COVID lockdown? Right now, we are experiencing a little of what it would be like if a high percentage of vehicles had zero emissions.
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Generational cooking filling the market with flavours from Turkey
For Nancy Turan, owning the Borek Shop within the Queen Victoria Market isn’t just a job, it is a way to bring memories from home into the city where she now lives.
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High-rise truck saga
Our inner-city champion whom we have lauded in this column has written in with a poignant precis of her tribulations.
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Taking a walk through Melbourne streets with Pierre Robin
Melbourne-based French wool buyer Pierre Robin was a keen amateur photographer. From the late 1950s into the 1960s he spent hours roaming the streets of the CBD, camera in hand.
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Town Hall Station’s City Square works ramp up … and up!
The Metro Tunnel’s City Square site is set for some major changes over the next nine months, with construction of the new Town Hall Station moving into the next phase.
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Giving a voice to our international students
While Cr Philip Le Liu has brought many passions to the City of Melbourne, his greatest ambition continues to be making Melbourne the number one student city in the world.
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City Square traffic disruptions
Greenline milestone: first stage opens at Birrarung Marr as the city’s signature river project edges forward
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