PROJECTS

Victorian and modern, home and garden, communal and private: a clearly articulated design by Kennedy Nolan brings balance to a multifaceted house in Hawthorn.

“Addition by subtraction” was the approach taken in the redesign of this Fremantle cottage, which pairs crisp interiors with light-filled courtyard gardens.

This apartment building transcends its “boarding house” classification with its rigorous planning, light-filled studios and generous communal space.

The renovation of a dilapidated 1920s Queenslander develops a sympathetic dialogue between the original house and its contemporary elements.

The carefully curated material palette for this Sydney home captures the essence of ocean and sky through the combination of textures and tones.

Built in the bush, this collection of architect-designed houses responds to rigorous bushfire safety standards with scrutiny and creativity, exploring ways of living safely and sustainably in the unforgiving Australian landscape.

A passion for food, art and the Western Australian coast inspired the transformation of this 1960s house into a retreat that values history and the clever use of space.

Taking root beneath a timber Queensland cottage, this carefully tuned addition knits an experience of the immediate and distant landscape into the daily patterns of domestic life.

Elegant and unpretentious, this new home in Kiama is at once a sanctuary and a fortress, a robust home braced to endure the often volatile climatic patterns of its clifftop location.

In coastal Brisbane, a new house orients family life around a verdant courtyard sanctuary, posing an unexpected response to the conventions of suburban housing.

A Victorian terrace conversion in one of Melbourne’s oldest suburbs manages the opposing needs for privacy and openness with ingenuity and surprise.

Entirely surrounded by neighbouring properties, a new house built within the walls of a former warehouse in Sydney is a minimalist and introspective family home.

This striking renovation of a South Fremantle house boldly expresses the site’s architectural imprints, giving structure to the transformation from the ground up.

Fluidity between interior and exterior realms is embraced in the kitchen and bathrooms of this home with a modernist past.

Capitalizing on an elevated site with enviable prospect, this cleverly planned addition to a Brisbane home culminates in a surprising and spatially rich treetop eyrie.

A respectful reimagining of a Federation-era house in the Sydney suburbs draws inspiration from Japanese architecture and celebrates a cohesive and vibrant family life.

Balancing boldness and restraint, this small-scale addition to a family home in the Melbourne suburbs is a confidently composed riff on the cellular order of the original house.

A new farmhouse on a sheep farm on Tasmania’s Bruny Island is at once humble and refined, offering a contemporary response to life in a rural landscape.

A new addition to a much-loved Brisbane cottage unearths the latent possibilities of a sloping suburban site, interlacing house and garden while preserving the neighbourliness of its laneway locale.

In inner-suburban Melbourne, the built legacy of a former milk bar has been transformed into a calm family home in which spaces are zoned for practicality and for mood.

Modest and mindful yet formally expressive, this revitalized Melbourne cottage intertwines house with landscape to create a spatially generous family home in harmony with the environment.

On a long, narrow site on Sydney’s Upper North Shore, the design for a suite of garden rooms plays on scale to complement the proportions of the large, ethereal back garden.

A single-storey worker’s cottage in Brisbane is transformed into three autonomous and adaptable units, making a compelling case for greater density in the suburbs.

An unconventional house on an inner-western Sydney site is paired with a clever yet unassuming new addition, proving that charm can be reclaimed and humility can be an asset.

Precisely tuned to frame and filter natural light, this reworking of a Melbourne terrace has realized a family home that is both durable and delightful.

In the countryside of south-east Queensland, this new residence makes a compelling case for rural living, offering the temptation to commune in private with nature.

A spatial tardis, this surprising and generous addition enlivens an original Georgian cottage in a tightly controlled Hobart heritage precinct.

House and garden are given equal import at this Point Lonsdale oasis, where a modernist approach of traditional rammed earth has created a home that is at one with its site.

In the third stage of a two-decade vision for a sustainable mixed-use village, DFJ Architects has combined an industrial material palette, the subtropical landscape and shared facilities to create a hub with characteristics bound to Byron Bay.

Nimble moves and a shared vision were required to modernize a house with ‘well-proportioned bones’ on Sydney’s lower north shore. The result is a space that is modest in size yet rich in experiences.