Nestled into and emerging from its sloping site, Red Hill House sees shards of burnished Corten steel sculpted into a coastal abode. Inarc Architects brings a refreshing boldness.
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Classic Yet Contemporary – Armadale House by Luke Fry Architecture & Interior Design
Luke Fry Architecture’s Armadale House sees the retention of the existing heart of the heritage home combined with a new, contemporary rear extension.
Queensland Penthouse sees CJH Studio bring a calming sense of refinement and maturity to the interiors, softening edges and carving out a place of true escape.
DREAMER Architecture and Breathe Architecture have come together to create 388 Barkly St – a study in biophilic architecture that holds itself to a higher standard.
In the leafy Melbourne suburb of Elwood, four townhouses designed by Fieldwork Architects and developed by HIP V. HYPE stand as exemplars of best practice in sustainable residential architecture.
Intertwining the stately features, Brighton Homestead by Robson Rak Architects & Interior Designers combines unexpected contrasts between old and new effortlessly under one roof.
Balnarring Retreat is envisioned as a low-tech place in which to disconnect. Branch Studio Architects celebrate craft through material and detail.
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Challenging the Anticipated – Baliol Residence by Grieve Gillett Anderson Architects
Baliol Residence sees a modernist and gabled barn vernacular combine. Grieve Gillett Anderson Architects brings a sophistication of materiality, detail and nuance to the project.
Fleming Street House by Curious Practice is a brave yet unquestionably practical response to the diverse factors that drove its brief, challenging typical notions of functionality.
Making most of the Australian summer, Brighton 6 by Pleysier Perkins and InForm sits on a corner site and is brought to life by subtle injections of greenery.
Retreat Residence M designed by CJH Studio is an inventive interpretation of a traditional Australian beach house, with modern muted tones that allow its residents to reconnect with the landscape.
Light House by Sophie Solomon Design (SSD) Studio achieves a light-filled interior for owners who have lived in the home for over 23 years.
Taking inspiration from mid-century Californian design, Chromacolour House sees Alwill Interiors bring a sense of purpose and soul to the repurposed home, which was previously the Cambodian embassy.
The striking contemporary façade and emphasis on texture and tactility that greets one outside the MLB Residence, designed by AdeB Architects and detailed interior by Mim Design
Collectors House in Auckland by BDG Architects sees a restoration of its original bones come together with a new pavilion that embraces its clifftop views.
The new Artedomus showroom in Brisbane designed by the Stella Collective and Thomas Coward is a reinterpretation of tropical design in Australia that draws inspiration from the glamour of 1980s Miami.
Approaching the renovation of a classic modernist home, designed by George Reeves in 1963, with a light hand, Homage to Oscar sees Luigi Rosselli Architects celebrate the home’s original bones.
Bismarck House sees Andrew Burges Architects tasked with a less than conventional brief, creating and informal home that embraces its long and linear landscape and site.
Masters of a monochromatic palette, Ritz&Ghougassian deliver refined opulence in their residential project, Highbury Grove. Where rigid structure meets moments of soft vulnerability.
Dismantling and reassembling the traditional components of the family home, Wickham House by MODO Architecture reinterpret internal zoning through a play on volume level changes & spatial separators.
Hamilton House pays homage to its rich and layered history, where Neil Architecture’s sensitive appreciation to the home’s context is clear.
BBW House takes cues in materiality and symmetry from its existing heritage home. Through a proposal of tiered volumes and layering on site, Tecture seamlessly connects the old with the new.
Born of a need for both privacy and openness to the incredible coastal views, Dune House is a play on contrasts. Fearon Hay, in collaboration with Penny Hay Design, conjures an aspirational home.
Rebecca Judd’s Forever Home sees Biasol engage with the idea of a ‘forever home’ to create a contemporary response to the original Spanish Colonial house, and a home that truly befits the family.
Reimagining the coastal home that originally occupied the site, Mount Beach House is an expression of the client’s inherent love of surfing and nature.
Bay House sees Strachan Group Architects emerge a dark emotive box, punctuated with warm timber, from the elevated south-facing site.
Herbst Architects’ Bay of Islands House is defined by the breathtaking views across the bay from which it takes its name.
St Marks House sees Dorrington Atcheson Architects bring a curiosity of form and express a boldness through materiality and finish.
Shark Alley sees Fearon Hay perch a structure defined by modernist minimal lines atop a rugged cliff-face as a place of refuge from its harsh coastal conditions.
Atop a refined and engineered base, Barcode House by Room 11 Architects sits as a timber-clad nest over its foundations and dynamic landscape below.
Broadbeach Waters sees BDA Architecture celebrate the building’s core structural materiality as sculpture within space, as a welcoming blurring of the threshold between inside and out unfolds.
Following the contours of the land, like rock forms and discarded goldmining remnants, Arrowtown House by RTA Studio emerges from its site.
Drill Hall House by Tobias Partners brings a contextual sensitivity to the adaptation and restoration of 1905 former Army drill hall, expressed through the resulting materiality and spatial planning.
Small of scale and humble of gesture, a pair of timber-clad structures sit at the water’s edge. The Camp sees Fearon Hay pare back the design to its essential elements.
Combining a sense of considered precision with nuanced elements of intrigue and discovery, RaeRae House by Austin Maynard Architects carves its own urban personality.
Blacksmith by The Stella Collective takes cues from its mid-century neighbours to carve out an intriguing rural hospitality destination.
Ocean Residence by FMD Archiects was designed as a place for entertaining, in which all aspects of the home are intended to act as an extension of the surrounding environment.
Taking inspiration from the original home’s material composition, Henley Clay House by Benn and Penna Architects sees a subtle, yet monolithic extension expand its framework to embrace.
Born from an exploration of the typical New Zealand residential vernacular, Valley House sees an Keshaw McArthur inject an existing Victorian-era villa.
Redefining the luxury hotel experience through an engagement of the senses, triggered by transformative touchpoints, Carr Design’s Jackalope Hotel in Red Hill offers a true escape.
St Vincent’s Place sees Coy Yiontis reconfigure and reinstate their original vision for a previous project, with an impassioned client through a minimalist lens.
Wellington Wall is a study of merging the heritage with the contemporary. Wolveridge Architects’ inquisitive and bold approach unveils a dynamic and finely detailed home.
Through balancing light and dark, Biasol’s Casa Chiaroscuro references an Italian fine art principle to emphasise volume through contrast, creating a calm, contemporary family home.
Focusing on light and quality of materiality, Mosman Residence sees Carr transform the once decorative home into a modernist architectural expression.
Referencing elements of traditional Japanese design, SAR Residence sees Mim Design instil the interiors of an existing heritage home with a sense of calm.
Crescent Head House sees Madeleine Blanchfield Architects celebrate the unique and enviable coastal site through a welcoming embrace of its aspects.
Casuarina House sees Vokes and Peters apply an inquisitive approach to propose a living, working coastal home for a young family.
Welcoming natural light, Olaver Architecture brings a fresh contemporary approach to create a connected home within an original a brick terrace.
Described as “a small yet perfectly formed home”, Sandy Bay House by Stevens Lawson Architects sits discreetly among the vegetation on a steep site on Waiheke Island, east of Auckland.
A new model with a vision to make architectural housing available to more people, Ruum curates limited edition, architect-designed houses, crafted by leaders in the architectural-construction industry
In just a few key architectural gestures, Studio Tate transforms a grand turn-of-the-century house into a family home that expertly balances character with elegance, & respect for the home’s heritage.
A narrow linear form, Mt Macedon House sits along the side of Mt Macedon in Victoria, nestled into the surrounding bushland.
Resolute in form, with meticulous detailing and a restrained palette, Red Hill House by Mathieson Architects sees a sense of order carved out through connections to its formal gardens.
Sympathetically bridging the existing and the proposed, Canning Street House sees Techne infuse a contemporary edge to an existing Victorian-era home in Melbourne’s inner north.
Inspired by the bucolic landscape of Matakana, north of Auckland, Glamuzina Architects’ Matakana House explores ideas of prospect and refuge throughout the design.
Born from a connection to place, Sandy Point House speaks to the modesty of the occasional coastal home that embraces its context and conditions.
The winning work for the NGV’s 2019 Architecture Commission by Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office, In Absence, will take people’s breath away as it opens to the public in the Grollo Equiset Garden.
A study on considered restraint, referencing Japanese principles of simplicity, Shibui House is imbued with a true sense of calm and purposefulness.
Double Life House designed by Breathe Architecture enables its residents to hide away from the hustle and bustle of the big Sydney city - for any owner, the home is a ‘fortress of solitude’.
M Penthouse exemplifies how honesty – to materiality, to the passage of time, and to the building’s original bones – can impart elegance and express nuance.
