The Garden Room House sees a living and breathing core inserted to create both visual and ventilated connections to the existing Victorian home and its new extension.
We explore Bureau Probert’s QLD Architecture Awards entry Albert Villa, where an existing cottage is given a new life, with a pavilion addition, respectfully referencing its heritage.
Set atop a bluff on the Flinders coastline, the Bluff House embraces a sense of separation as a means of amplifying the context, finding balance through the tension between detachment and connection.
An innovative and contemporary response to a classic Californian bungalow restoration in Melbourne’s north, Coburg House by Lisa Breeze Architect is a lovingly restored family home.
Nth FITZROY by Milieu is a carefully considered collaboration between progressive urban developer Milieu, architecture practice Fieldwork and award-winning interior designers Flack Studio.
United Places Botanic Gardens, designed by Carr Design Group, is a pioneering hotel experience that offers guests a new level of travel luxury within one of Melbourne’s most renowned suburbs.
Studio Griffiths’ Ivanhoe Residence finds inspiration in the heritage 1930s original house to create a contemporary family home that combines refinement with whimsical personality.
Responding to a nuanced brief for contemporary living, Folk Architects’ Storybook House is a proposition of extending and renovating an existing single-fronted Victorian terrace.
We explore Telly Theodore Allied Office’s Laycock Road, where a large excavation to the existing site creates a generous and texturally engaging internal extension space.
At the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in an estate on the Bellarine Peninsula, the Torquay House is oriented toward the views across the golf course, with the design framed by expanses of earth & sky.
Driven by a belief that multi-residential architecture must both respond and contribute to the city’s local urban landscape, an innate appreciation for cultural context is at the heart of Milieu.
An eco-friendly home, designed to passively cool without air-conditioning, the Red Blue Zephyr (RBZ) House takes inspiration from the nature it is placed within.
Nestled deferentially behind a double-storey Victorian terrace, the Chamfer House by Ha Architecture gracefully addresses the inherent challenges of its restricted site and heritage context.
The Green House is an urban sanctuary, born from a desire to create a sustainable and ecological home completely immersed in the surrounding environment.
Studio 203’s Lilyfield House sees an existing shop-front in Sydney’s inner-west transformed into a series of volumes, connected through a central atrium.
A traditional workers’ cottage is transformed by interior designer Fiona Lynch into a refined and dynamic home that reflects the identity of its owner, Melbourne artist Tom Adair.
The Tongue n Groove flagship showroom, designed by Tobias Partners, has been awarded a prestigious Good Design Award Gold Accolade in the Architectural Design category.
We explore Templeton Architecture's Sybil House, a former 'chook farm', repurposed as a bespoke escape from the city in Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.
Bloxas’ Hungry Hands project takes a tactile approach to texture in order to engage its occupants in a sensory discovery through the spaces, allowing for increased engagement in their everyday life.
Freadman White’s Whitlam Place takes cues from the neighbouring context, influencing proportion in this Scarpa-inspired solid form that sits atop a light-filled transparent box.
Perched atop 17 acres overlooking the Moreton Bay Islands, the Redland Residence by saw the designers craft a contemporary, character-filled home that makes the most of the natural environment.
Taylor Pressly Architects draw on a play of form, texture and contrast to create an elegant and luxurious family home in which both interior design and architecture resonate in harmony.
Set within two dramatic concrete shrouds, the Hawthorn House pushes at the boundaries of residential design, yet it is simultaneously driven by a singular focus on the essential activities.
A sense of adventure and love of the coastal northern-New South Wales landscape is at the heart of Daniel Boddam’s most recent work, which both encompasses furniture and architecture.
No. 6 Sydney Street is a boutique project of only 16 apartments overlooking Orrong Romanis Reserve in the Melbourne City of Stonnington, by Wood Marsh Architecture.
Resisting the typical impulse to extend their small cottage to allow for its growing family, clients of the Garden Bunkie chose to engage Reddog Architects to create a standalone dwelling.
In FMD Architects’ His & Hers House, a couple with two previous separate design schemes are brought together in a design that marks the commencement of their new shared home and future lives together.
Nestled on the shores of Lake St Clair in Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, The Retreat, designed by JAWS Architects, is the latest accommodation offering at Pumphouse Point.
Nestled among the quiet streets of bayside Melbourne, the Silhouette Hytte House overcomes a number of challenging site conditions to create a playful and updated reference to the existing vernacular.
Ancient masses of pink granite provided a powerful source of inspiration for Liminal Studio’s design of the Coastal Pavilions in Frecyinet National Park.
Set in heritage-rich Balmain, Sydney, Downie North’s Machiya House respectfully takes lessons from its Japanese influences, instilling privacy, connection and a new access to light.
A respectful restoration and extension of an existing Victorian terrace in Paddington, Smart Design Studio’s Regent project sees punctuations and extrusions openly encourage natural light inward.
We explore Owen Architecture and Lineburg Wang’s Indooroopilly House, taking the traditional Queenslander vernacular and integrating stepped levels to allow access to sightlines from each room.
We speak with founding director, Rob Kennon from Rob Kennon Architects about the Brighton House, their firms’ approach to domestic living and fusing the old and the new for a family in Melbourne.
Chris Tate Architecture’s provides Forest Pavilion a contextually appropriate nod to Californian modernism a reference that connects the project to a wider architectural legacy.
Elbow Room sees Spacecraft Architects refine their response to the landscape through a rationalisation and robustness, delivering on accessibility of design.
Wairau Valley House sees Parsonson Architects respond by blurring boundaries between landscape and build form, playing on concealment and revealing elements.
Blurring the lines between architecture and landscape, PopovBass’s Sunshine Beach House sees a contemporary approach to the traditional Queenslander typology revisited.
We explore David Boyle Architects’ Five Garden House, where landscape elements are utilised as spatial generators in the new alterations to an existing 1950’s modernist home.
Comprising of four unique residences in a boutique development envelope, 131 Residences embodies a strength and clarity of concept, which permeates all aspects of the architecture and interiors.
We explore Studio Four’s Central Park Residence, where an existing 1970s brown brick home is opened up to return its character and materiality to a sense of honesty, embracing the client’s heritage.
Set above the streetscape in Sydney’s north-shore suburb of Middle Cove, H House is referred to as the ‘tree house’ by its owners for its fanciful placement above the tree line.
We explore Nobbs Radford Architects’ Riverview House, where the existing bones are opened to create a sense of connection between the previous stagnant living zones.
Responding to the clients’ changed lifestyle, South Yarra Townhouse sees Inarc Architects breathe new life into an existing neo-classical townhouse in Melbourne’s south.
Blinco Street House facilitates this unique process through the layering of private to social zones leading the journey from solitude to the friendly reacquaintance with a larger community.
Acting as a counterpoint to its original warehouse bones, Darling Lane by Welsh Major Architects is a refined and simplified gesture of amenity in amongst a texturally-complex home.
A heritage semi-detached cottage proved a uniquely challenging yet rewarding project. Originally owned in the 1900s by two brothers who informally founded Australia’s surf lifesaving culture.
We explore Edition Office’s Point Lonsdale house, where a series of vaulted pavilions connect around a central living space, and are aligned to create a linear play on the coastal home aesthetic.
Designing a large family home on a small urban site would usually result in a structure that prioritises indoor over outdoor space, this project takes the opposite approach.
Perched on a hillside, atop the carport of an existing residence, the (Gr)ancillary Dwelling is an alternative to elderly care, an exemplar of intergenerational living.
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