Stepping behind the Victorian façade of Sanders & King’s South Melbourne House, one discovers an interior that, inspired by the clients’ love of contemporary European design.
Embracing its location and identity within one of Melbourne’s most envied residential postcodes, Heyington Place by Carr combines refinement and elevated restraint in its approach.
Archer Office’s Camperdown Warehouse sees an artful approach to adaptive re-use result in the design of a three-bedroom residence with no internal walls.
Crosson Architects’ Kawau Island House combines the familiar with a sense of endurance and creates a place of disconnection from the hectic pace of everyday life.
Margate House embraces its site and surrounding environment. Field Labs brings a curious sensibility to the design, proposing an engineered solution that is both beautiful and sustainable.
Situated within an existing building in Darlinghurst, the aptly named Darlinghurst Apartment provided Hecker Guthrie an ideal backdrop to play with light and explore ideas of sanctuary.
Hidden amongst the trees above Sydney’s Tamarama Beach, Akin Atelier’s Ashley Street project was conceived as a private hideaway with a strong connection to nature.
Referencing the form and materiality of the nearby rural sheds, Mountford Williamson’s Port Willunga Beach House combines a familiar agricultural vernacular together with a coastal robustness.
Capturing the personality of its clients through an injection of expressive colour, texture and artwork, Wattle House by Golden combines a youthful vitality with a considered approach.
North Bondi sees James Garvan Architecture put forward a restrained palette to add textural movement, creating a curiosity through materiality in a response to the home’s surroundings.
By day, the Lantern House by Herbst Architects reads as a dark rectilinear form, yet by night, softly glowing from within the light streaming through the battens lends the design another dimension.
Empire House exemplifies the shared commitment of Austin Maynard Architects and the clients to preserving the original home and the character of the area.
Eyrie Cabins sees Cheshire Architects bring a refreshing rigor in their approach, creating considered insertion into its enviable site, where guests enter through the large window opening.
Upside-Down-Back-To-Front House sees Carter Williamson shake up a family home, proposing a renovation that discards expectations, instead prioritising solutions tailored to its inhabitants.
Armadale Residence by Rob Mills Architects bring a considered eclecticism and refinement to fulfilling its multidimensional brief transforming a former warehouse into a considered and functional home.
Hill Plains Cottage sees Wolveridge Architects combine a restrained and contextually appropriate materiality with an understanding of the site, creating a place of seclusion.
When Casey Brown Architecture was first briefed on this Bangalley project, the instruction was to “do the site justice, be part of nature and make sure it will last 100 years”.
Set the bayside Melbourne suburb of Brighton, Sussex Street sees Mim Design and Powell and Glenn bring a refined commitment to heightened detail, monolithic and strong gestures and a sense of elegant.
Contrasting old and new, accepting the imperfect with the perfect, the Perfect Imperfect House by Megowan Architectural is the result of a dialogue about balance.
Perched over the lake of the same name, Wallis Lake House by Matthew Woodward Architecture is an expression of contrasts, combining a linear formality with a relaxed and textural outlook.
Referencing the traditional pitched canvas tent in form and purpose Tent House by Chris Tate Architecture lightly touch the enviable location sits amongst, contrasting the natural with built elements.
James Garvan Architecture opens up the existing formal planning and reconfigures key connecting zones to give the Paddington House a new sense of lightness.
Casa X sees Branch Studio Architects carve out a warm enclave in walking distance from the coastline the building is tucked so neatly within, where a series of timber-lined pavilions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nestled on the dunes of the Coromandel Peninsula overlooking the ocean, Hahei House is a sensitive and considered response to the site’s unparalleled natural beauty.
Headland House by Stevens Lawson Architects takes inspiration from traditional Maori pā forms and the geometry of the landscape that slopes and curves down to the water’s edge.
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.
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.
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