PROJECTS

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

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

A narrow city site is a complex but rewarding testing ground for two architect owners, who have paired a craggy sandstone terrace with a slender companion building in the design of their own mixed-use, multigenerational home.

The rituals of beach life are celebrated in this re-worked Phillip Island holiday home, where new additions have been designed with the same accessible approach to sustainability favoured by the original architect.

A scheme of simplicity and elegance, this minimalist palette is warmed by timbers and the greenery of the home’s gardens.

Function is key for this family of four, and their reimagined Queenslander is at once sophisticated and relaxed.

A love of colour united YSG Studio and its clients, and the result is an expressive yet balanced interior with a slick contemporary feel.

This soothing beachside sanctuary on the Mornington Peninsula by interior designer Fiona Lynch is rich in sea-bleached pastels, earthy materials and comfortable spots to gather in style.

Beyond its modest, shed-like exterior, this secondary dwelling is both an expedient and elegant solution to small-scale living, providing its artist owner with a canvas to animate with light, life and art.

A sandcastle in more than name, this multi-level home by Raffaello Rosselli and Luigi Rosselli Architects with Alwill Interiors combines beachy colours with clear views of sea and sky.

Three spaces, ten occupants and one flexible plan: Bligh Graham Architects’ Live Work Share House is a multi-use prototype where everyone can feel at home.

In Sydney’s Manly, a formerly “fat” brick box has been transformed into a light and bright home that effortlessly flows up a sloped site from front to back.

Perched above the beach on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, this refined new house is immersed in its wild coastal setting, offering its owners a calming refuge from city life.

This considered renovation’s adaptable design supports long-term connection to community and enables its owner to sustain her independent lifestyle into retirement.

Regenerating a site rich in history, this vibrant new home, contained within the walls of an old stable, is part of an ongoing multigenerational project that explores alternative models for living together.

Voluminous yet resourceful, this lightweight addition to a Queenslander is a pragmatic solution that filters sunlight and buffers noise while also serving as a delightfully adaptable outdoor room.

A rare opportunity to unite a pair of semi-detached houses in Sydney’s Paddington results in a deceptively generous family home that responds to the spatial geometry of the site.

In Brisbane’s Paddington, an old timber cottage is thoughtfully and skilfully recast as a courtyard house that responds to site, climate and the desire for familial connection.

A delicate balance of addition and subtraction liberates a small and dark bungalow in Sydney, creating a composed home that is less house, more garden.

A 1960s apartment is judiciously replanned for single occupancy, creating a solitary refuge from which to survey the immediacy and intensity of the ocean view.

In a novel alliance between several practices, each team’s distinct design sensibility and autonomy was key, alongside a precise understanding of how each building would interact with its “siblings” and with the central public space connecting them.

A Georgian landmark in Hobart’s Battery Point is graced with a surprisingly porous living pavilion that interacts generously with street and garden.

Elegantly yet dramatically increasing inner Hobart’s residential density, Cumulus Studio’s Goulburn Street Housing responds to the heritage context of the streetscape while introducing a new functional and formal typology.

On the Gold Coast, a series of affordable, climate-responsive dwellings clustered around a communal garden space is driven by the architect’s desire to help residents develop a personal connection with their home.

Referencing the landscape and vivid family memories, a richly detailed farm house on a pastoral site outside Brisbane provides a grounding platform for ageing in place.

Small urban living is reimagined in this resourceful alteration, resulting in an inventive, future-proof courtyard house tucked behind a terrace facade in Sydney’s Redfern.

In this addition to an Edwardian home in south-east Melbourne, clever planning and a judicious approach to challenging the brief have resulted in a finely crafted, materially rich family home.

Time, trust and deep respect for the Byron Bay landscape have yielded the “small but perfectly formed” Coolamon House, a multi-generational retreat in thoughtful dialogue with its surroundings.

An outstanding exemplar of inner-city sustainable living, this new house in Melbourne also pushes the boundaries of contemporary design.

Acknowledging the restorative power of prospect and refuge, this new house in the Northern Rivers hinterland proffers a dramatic, bunker-like shell that peels open to reveal a warm and intimate inner sanctuary.