Reimagining an existing waterfront house, Tobias Partners transforms Vaucluse Bay House into a home befitting its enviable location, tucked away discretely in a rare waterfront site on Sydney Harbour.
Celebrating local established and emerging talent, the Design Tasmania Awards are an ongoing promotion and recognition of innovation and ingenuity in contemporary design thought.
United by the core values of quality and sustainability, Cantilever is a design-centric Australian kitchen manufacturing and interiors company committed to designing for longevity.
Bungan Beach Beauty by Les Interieurs employs a deliberately minimal, muted palette and an impassioned love for the natural world, while organic elements bring a sculptural curiosity design.
Onedin by Shaun Lockyer Architects combines interconnecting vertical and horizontal planes to compose Onedin, a balanced and robust expression of place, deeply connected to its landscape.
Perched on a steep incline in picturesque Gordons Bay, a tiered garden from Secret Gardens sees the outdoor spaces match the uncompromising and site-specific house they surround.
Inspired by the interaction between light and the curved surface, Est Lighting’s Melbourne showroom, by Christopher Elliott Design, is a celebration of both light and the local design community.
Harry and Viv’s House by Ha Architecture is a small Victorian that questions expected relationships while maintaining the integrity of the detailed heritage façade.
With interiors by Mim Design and architecture by Fender Katsalidis Architects, The Grace Albert Park proposes an elevated template for later-life communities.
An extension of the principles Whispering Smith established with House A, House B is a further exploration of a more considered approach to urban infill.
Repurposing the existing home’s late 1980s brickwork as the structural foundation, Aroona House sees Neil Architecture transforms the building’s past into a more responsive present incarnation.
Layering warmth, richness and subtleties, The Esplanade is a home of enveloping invitation. Williams Burton Leopardi creates a sense of refined luxury through an acute understanding of materiality.
Art House sees the theatrical unfolding of a curated and purposeful home full of life, colour and texture. Studio CD combines a sense of the classical with a fresh take on the contemporary.
Rose Bay House by Rose Ricci Bloch brings a considered approach to context that reflects the importance of maintaining connection to both the streetscape and the home’s past.
Avian Apartment, set within an iconic Harry Seidler building in Brisbane, saw Ali Holgar Interior Design take inspiration from both the original architecture and European design sensibilities.
Camberwell Residence sees Neil Architecture breathe fresh life into an existing brick home in Melbourne, defined by a new batten façade that contributes privacy and texture.
Doherty Design Studio reinvigorates Back to the Future through understanding of context and the home’s modernist influences, combined with an appreciation of bold, expressive colour.
House RV sees Plus Minus Design combine a nuanced and adaptive approach to reinvigorate an existing home through a considered refinement of connection, materiality and form.
Breathing new life into this 1890s Port Phillip Bay Italianate Victorian home, Milford House sees Rosstang Architects infuse a considered contemporary approach into a unique historic context.
Within the bones of an original 1930s home in Melbourne, Christopher Elliott Design has created a restrained and elegant interior world that infuses art deco elements with a contemporary sensibility.
Smart Living Ideas sees BoConcept hone multi-functional and space-saving furniture solutions that effortlessly create a well-designed working-from-home hub.
Referencing masterpieces of mid-century architecture, Hindley & Co Architecture and Interiors’ Sand Dune Sanctuary nestles into its softly undulating natural surrounds with restraint and finesse.
Midway Point House combines a play on scale with clever and strategic planning. Operating from a considered approach to site, Cumulus Studio proposes a home of appropriate program and reclusiveness.
Referencing the curved brickwork and Art Deco stylings of its neighbours, Merri Creek House takes inspiration from its context. WOWOWA conjures a home that combines craft, character and playfulness.
Ballast Point House sees Fox Johnston combine a clarity of knowledge of the site and its constraints together with refinement, ingenuity and efficiencies.
An acclaimed series of releases from Australian manufacturer Phoenix Tapware has seen the company win a slew of international design awards, including Best of the Best at the Red Dot Awards.
Capturing the enviable site aspects, Megowan Architectural’s Three Angle House is born from a place of immersion. Sunken into its hillside locale, the architecture stands as a response to its site.
From stonemasonry to embroidery, football and sculpture, for Steven John Clark, it was an unconventional path that eventually led to founding Melbourne-based studio denHolm.
Coco Flip draws on travel as both muse and source of new perspectives. Recently launching two new collections influenced by the Art Deco movement, Coco Flip’s ethos is grounded in considered design.
Vaucluse House sees Luis Gomez-Siu bring a refined and considered approach to the extension of an existing semi-detached house through detailing and restraint conceived around ideas of framing.
MRTN Architects Good Life House references the surrounding early 20th-century housing and creates a generous, energy-efficient new family home that speaks to the clients connection their community.
For Artedomus, the application of Cotto Manetti terracotta in contemporary Australian architecture and design exemplifies the timeless and enduring qualities of this ancient natural material.
A mid-century home nestled into a secluded bushland setting in Sydney’s Sugarloaf Bay, The Quarterdeck by Studio Gorman responds to the client’s relaxed playful personality.
Working within the constraints of the existing solid brick building, Solid House stands true to its name. Through its renovated bones, Coy Yiontis offers a nod to its past life that forms the literal.
Restoring and adapting an original Queenslander home in Brisbane, Nielson Jenkins combines a sense of enveloping warmth and sensitivity to context through the expression of the original details.
Glebe Studio is a secondary dwelling located at the end of a laneway in Sydney’s Inner West, transforming existing underutilised space at the rear of a residential property.
Darling Vista House by Stafford Architecture brings a refined confidence to the outreaching aspects of the home, combining an awareness of materiality with a sensibility to place.
Through a creative exploration of materiality and a curious dissection of the inner-city site, Kats Cocktail by Meaghan White Architects sees the creation of two dwellings.
As generous as it is unexpected, Austin Maynard Architects’ King Bill House is an impassioned offering from the clients and architects to the suburb of Fitzroy.
Lighthouse is a home of simplicity, with architects Room 11 focusing on form and functionality to create a small, beautifully detailed home for a retired couple in Hobart.
Smiths Beach Lifesaving sees MRTN Architects reinterpret the well-known vernacular of the coastal watchtower. More than just a place of shelter from the elements, a modest and recessive approach.
Franca House sees Myers Ellyett and Wrightson Stewart combine to carefully sculpt both the interior and exterior rooms of an existing home to flow consistently across thresholds.
A harmonious and thoughtful response to a complex challenge, Molecule Studio’s Winton House is a Victorian heritage home given new life via a contemporary two-storey extension.
Tasked with sensitively reworking the interior of a home designed originally by renowned architect Peter Stutchbury, Minosa’s approach was guided by the spectacular views of Sydney Harbour.
Designed by DKO Architecture and Breathe Architecture for Defence Housing Australia (DHA) to champion sustainability and celebrate community, Arkadia is exemplary in its use of recycled materials.
The many-faceted offerings of Willow Urban Retreat define its tranquil presence as a haven that serves as a platform for human connection to self, community and place.
We speak with founding director, Ellie Taylor of Lande Architects about Charles Street, a project of which she is both architect and owner, where an Abbotsford cottage is given a new chapter.
At the foundation of the project is a belief in the importance of engaging inhabitants in the world around them, as a counter to the significant amount of time spent in artificial environments.
We explore Project 12 Architecture’s Northcote Residence, where an existing Californian bungalow and its ill-fitting 1980s extension is given new life through a contemporary lens.
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