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.
Influenced by the architectural vernacular of its surrounding alpine region, Country Residence sees Bureaux express the home’s storied context through materiality, composition and form.
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.
Black and White House sees Studio John Irving propose a home of contrasts, where the old and new are defined by each end of the spectrum of the monochromatic scale.
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.
With its apex pointing northward, Studio John Irving’s The Dart is set on a dramatic and windswept hillside, anchored to the site by the strength and simplicity of the form.
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.
Set amongst the treetops on New Zealand’s Waiheke Island, Vaughn McQuarrie Architects Palm Beach House is a contemporary interpretation of New Zealand’s traditional bach vernacular.
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.
Taking heed from its rugged west-coast location, Kaipara Harbour House by Crosson Architects is inspired by the burial ground of ships it sits upon. Akin to upturned hulls in the sand.
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.
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.
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.
Born from an exploration of the typical New Zealand residential vernacular, Valley House sees an Keshaw McArthur inject an existing Victorian-era villa.
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.
Wanaka Residence sees Three Sixty Architecture create a balanced rhythm through mechanisms of compression and release, that provide moments of intimacy and openness internally, and beyond.
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.
Green House by Daniel Marshall Architects combines restraint and a sense of the monolithic through select materiality to open up the threshold between inside and out whilst still being overtly private
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.
Through the materiality of steel and glass, a contemporary monochromatic palette and clean, rectilinear forms, Lightbox House sits proudly as a new presence adjacent to its traditional predecessor.
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.
Drawing inspiration from the dramatic reality of our natural surroundings, timber specialists Abodo and Sioo have combined to develop the innovative Sioo:x technology.
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.
Wood Melbourne’s 2019 range is considered in its use of material, functional in application and minimalist in style, making all six designs unique pieces to enrich any bathroom space.
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.
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