PROJECTS

Preferring elaboration over eradication, this adaptation of a 1970s house disrupts pervading Gold Coast attitudes toward older housing and revels in its suburban context.

On a traditional street in Melbourne’s west, a new house pairs pragmatic planning and cost-effective material use with surprising volume to reframe the dream of a suburban family home.

Taking complex site conditions in its stride, this compact worker’s cottage addition channels the suburb’s industrial character while crafting a surprisingly secluded urban sanctuary.

This resourceful alteration forgoes the temptation to build anew, instead recalibrating a Victorian home and its 1990s addition to suit contemporary family life.

Changing constraint to opportunity, the design of this new home turns a Sydney site edged with a jagged sandstone face into a private setting well suited to family life.

A “make-do and mend” approach renews a bungalow in the Southern Highlands, fine-tuning the home to provide greater independence for a family of four.

Delicate and inventive accretions to a Perth duplex encourage flexible occupation and sustain a multigenerational family that seeks both refuge and connection.

Rebuffing the temptation of the singular view, this new house evokes memories of the site’s past occupation to craft a place for living and making on the Brisbane River.

A deft revival of a 1970s project home respects the scale and materiality of the original house, impelled by Sibbel Builders’ underlying ethos of sensitive homes that do more with less.

An elegant pavilion addition to a Sydney cottage resolves a sloping site and incites its occupants to find delight in inhabiting the building’s edges.

In the design of their own home on the Sunshine Coast, Dan and Margo Sparks relished the chance to investigate sustainable design and construction. Dan looks back on the lessons they learnt about efficient, small-scale living.

Sitting in “productive tension” with the development’s original ambitions, the fourth stage of Habitat demonstrates the flexibility of its masterplan.

This meticulous adaptation of a Georgian terrace in a tightly protected heritage precinct has seen layers removed, revealed and revived in a fine composition of old and new.

A rear extension to a worker’s cottage in inner-suburban Melbourne is a love letter to the Australian outdoors, recreating the feeling of camping in the bush.

Seemingly effortless yet upheld by unwavering structural logic, this understated new home invites easygoing living, like the simple beach shacks that inspired it.

A sensitive renovation to a Sydney home juggles opposing needs for light and privacy, creating spaces for mindfulness and delight.

A third chapter for a house designed in 1961 by Peter Muller, with subsequent additions by Glenn Murcutt and Wendy Lewin, is a masterfully layered design that connects with the past, and with place.

Marrying heritage and modern elements in a cohesive gable-roofed addition, this project delivers an elegant yet effortless family home.

A new housing model in inner-urban Melbourne aims to provide renters with a pathway to ownership alongside high-quality design and shared resident facilities.

Emblemizing an ambition to build small but better, this contemporary beach shack on the Sunshine Coast sustains a life lived outdoors.

A commitment to principled repair and retention shaped the subtle but serious adaptive reuse of this historic Melbourne terrace.

Modest and purposeful, a medium-rise development in suburban Melbourne offers internal amenity and shows that design skill, not cost, determines the quality of a project.

A sculptural new volume balances timber-lined living spaces and discreet, operable machinery at this concept-driven home in suburban Melbourne.

A contemporary yet complementary addition to a 1950s house in New Farm is a tribute to the unsung history of brick in Brisbane’s residential architecture.

An unusual composition with an asymmetrical design, Shiplap House by Chenchow Little is a bold house untethered by contemporary discourse.

Behind an existing terrace in Sydney, a tiny new build defies expectations by creating an apparently spacious yet private home that considers its neighbours and the planet.

After thirty years at home in this two-storey terrace house, an artistic pair sought renovations to prepare for a few decades more.

Unencumbered by convention and brimming with ambition, this remarkable addition to a Brisbane cottage is likened by its owners to “living in an artwork.”

Perched upon the suburban landscape, this prefabricated design employs a simple, modernist language, in a home centred on living.

Designed to support aging in place, a new home in Melbourne’s Eaglemont responds to its historically significant surrounds and immerses its owners in a tranquil garden setting.