PROJECTS

With an emphasis on design quality and detailing, this home by Powell and Glenn and Mim Design fuses the classic and contemporary to reimagine apartment living as generous and bespoke.

This revamp of a worker’s cottage in Melbourne’s inner-north embraces colour and texture in a contemporary take on elaborate Italianate ornamentation.

Fusing concepts inherent in furniture design and architecture, this conversion of a former motor vehicle factory in Sydney serves as a prototype for a novel approach to adaptive re-use.

International Style modernism tempered by a youthful Italianate spirit instils this Melbourne apartment by Baracco and Wright Architects with a new layer of architecture that nimbly resists periodization.

Architects Liz Walsh and Alex Nielsen have transformed a tiny Tasmanian flat into a “deft box of tricks,” a cleverly crafted guest space looking out to the Derwent River.

MA Architects and Maria Danos create a sophisticated apartment interior that holds its own against the strong architectural presence of a well known Seidler building.

Phorm Architecture and Design adds a contemporary counterpoint to the original Queenslander.

A Paris-inspired loft-style apartment added to a period mercantile building in Melbourne.

A homeopathic laboratory, dispensary, book-shop and residence in one.

Eoghan Lewis Architects turns a heritage sandstone cottage into a contemporary home and studio.

A sixteenth-century Italian attic restored by Perth studio SODAA and local studio, MQAA.

Hannah Tribe finds the light-filled airy home inside a cramped old Sydney bungalow.

An interwar Melbourne home deftly reinvigorated by Brett Tuer and Chris Jones.

The Melbourne home of a set designer and a teacher, renovated by Breathe Architecture.

Nixon Tulloch Fortey Architecture makes a community focal point of a Melbourne parkside home.

Richard Kirk Architect revisits Hawthorne Residence, the practice’s first project from 2003.

Wrightson Stewart Interior Design turn an old woolstore apartment into a tailored bachelor pad.

A Sydney house by Domenic Alvaro integrates art into its living canvas of light and shade.

Mac-Interactive’s ambitious use of a corner site results in a neighbourhood playground and stage set.

A case study in sustainable design through the provision of adaptable space.

Mim Design softens the scale of a Federation home with a series of connected living spaces.

A former factory forms the shell of this residence, housed above a boutique office space.

A Melbourne weatherboard bungalow with an intriguing extension by Multiplicity.

Without disturbing the original 1902 front rooms, Riddel Architecture transformed the back of a Brisbane home.

A complex arrangement of spaces over three levels cleverly resolved by Carterwilliamson in Sydney.