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Turpentine timber salvaged from the original building forms the boathouse’s open-batten facade.

St George Sailing Club by Jon Jacka Architects

Just south of central Sydney, a sailing club has been designed to serve as a valuable community facility that is practical and hospitable, with simple geometric forms that “tap social memory.”

Commercial
The garden setback and low brick fence support passive surveillance and acknowledge ground-floor residents as building custodians.

Aboriginal Housing Victoria – Affordable Housing Project by Breathe

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.

Residential
Nightingale Village. Pictured: Parklife by Austin Maynard Architects (left) and Evergreen by Clare Cousins Architects.

Nightingale Village

Built to foster community in and around its residences, this precinct in Melbourne’s inner-north comprises six apartment buildings with diverse designs united by shared values.

Residential
The curvacious roof produces spatial complexity and aids in wayfinding through the campus.

Playful and dynamic: James Cook University Central Plaza

Cox Architecture, Counterpoint Architecture

At JCU’s Townsville campus, a creative collective has come together to produce an academic and social hub amplified by the seamless integration of art and architecture.

Public / cultural
The designs at Vermont Park (pictured today) and other Merchant Builders subdivisions disrupted the standardized model that dominated post-war Australian suburbia.

Revisited: Vermont Park

Merchant Builders

In the1960s and ’70s, Merchant Builders used the suburbs to experiment with innovative, affordable housing models. Today, Vermont Park remains an exemplar for how we might rethink residential development.

Residential
The design brings an element of fluidity, curvaceousness and greenery to the rather hard, dry surrounds.

An act of civic pride: Gunyama Park Aquatic and Recreation Centre

Andrew Burges Architects and Grimshaw with TCL in collaboration with the City of Sydney, Grimshaw Architects, TCL, Andrew Burges Architects

The collaborative design for a public pool and recreation centre in the Green Square precinct of Sydney’s inner-east reflects a harbour-and-headland landscape and thoughtfully caters for the diverse needs of the whole community.

Public / cultural
The design enables a multiplicity of readings, leaving space for the visitor to participate in the meaning of the memorial, collaboratively and with empathy.

An empathetic act: For Our Country

At the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, an unconventional monument eschews reference to particular people or events in order to incorporate broader meanings, from the ancient past and into the future.

Public / cultural