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The restrained material palette reflects light to maximize a sense of space.

The Bercin 001 by Retallack Thompson Architects

A collaboration between Retallack Thompson and MIK Studio

A collaboration between Retallack Thompson and MIK Studio, 001 is the first suite at Newtown’s boutique hotel. The Bercin.

Interiors
Fremantle’s nautical heritage inspired the restaurant’s design.

Shrewd poeticism: Warders Hotel and Emily Taylor

Matthew Crawford Architects

Matthew Crawford Architects has re-imagined a historic row of cottages with significant cultural heritage as a boutique hotel and restaurant–bar.

Hospitality
Lighting is generally diffused or reflected back on to walls and ceilings helping to make the venue appear to glow at night.

A public service: Rose Bay Hotel

Tasked with overhauling an iconic 1929 pub in Sydney, Richards Stanisich has combined rich textures and materials with a historical narrative to create an authentic pub experience.

Hospitality, Interiors
Each room has been thoughtfully layered with iconic furniture pieces, custom-designed joinery, and premium fittings and fixtures.

Populuxe pageantry: Zagame’s House

Melbourne design firm Lukas Partners Interior Architecture combines bold colour, dramatic artworks and curvaceous geometries in the interiors for this new ninety-seven-room boutique hotel in Carlton.

Hospitality, Interiors
Porosity at the three public-street frontages, 
in particular the arcade on James Street, strengthens the building’s civic gestures.

Urbane luxury: The Calile Hotel

A new hotel in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley is evocative of luxury tropical resorts yet also carefully assimilates into the emerging urban character of the James Street precinct.

Hospitality
In the dining and sitting spaces, solid walls give way to operable glazed panels that allow the pavilion to be transformed into a platform.

A strong sense of place: Three Capes Track Lodges

Part of an evolving tradition of place-sensitive architecture in the Tasmanian wilderness, these walking lodges sit back in the landscape and let the spectacular scenery take precedence.

Hospitality
As seen in suite six, galvanized steel, carpet and timber create an unexpected but comforting mixture of materials and textures.

Luxury in restraint: Drift House

Melbourne architecture firm Multiplicity has revisited a boutique hotel they designed in the Victorian coastal town of Port Fairy and added a suite of new spaces that redefine what luxury means.

Hospitality
The living and sleeping arms of each pod embrace a private deck, providing shelter and privacy.

Coastal cubbies: Freycinet Lodge Coastal Pavilions

On the east coast of Tasmania, Liminal Architecture has designed a series of sensitive and masterfully crafted accommodation pods that amplify the experience of the distinctive landscape of Freycinet National Park.

Hospitality
The five-star Intercontinental Perth City Centre has 240 rooms and a penthouse suite.

Sophistication incarnate: Intercontinental Perth City Centre

Perth’s new Intercontinental hotel, designed by Woods Bagot and Chada, is the second reincarnation of a 1970s office block and proof that the finer things get better with age.

Hospitality, Interiors
A honed dolomite reception counter appears morphed from the floor.

Architectural vintage: Mitchelton Winery Hotel

In country Victoria, Hecker Guthrie has created a fifty-eight-room hotel on a winery estate with a rich architectural pedigree.

Hospitality, Interiors
Paramount House Hotel by Breathe Architecture.

No place like home: Paramount House Hotel

Located in the former headquarters of Paramount Picture Studios in Surry Hills, Sydney, this hotel designed by Breathe Architecture explores the narrative between place and home.

Hospitality, Interiors
The monolithic welcome desks and grand staircase in the double-height entry space make a grand first impression.

Melburnian ambience: Four Points by Sheraton

DKO architecture

In Melbourne’s Docklands, DKO Architecture has designed an understated and elegant hotel that delivers an experience for guests that feels at one with the real world just outside its doors.

Interiors
The design of the Brae guest suites delicately balances “contemporary cool” and local traditions.

Idiosyncratic luxury: Brae Guest Houses

In country Victoria, Six Degrees Architects has created six guest suites that reflect Brae restaurant’s passion for local character and flavour.

Interiors
The cellar door is a shallowly vaulted linear space with a flexible plan, allowing it to serve as a wine- and produce-tasting retail space, a long banquet room and everything in between.

Spatial negative: Tarrawarra Estate Cellar Door

At Tarrawarra Estate in the Yarra Valley, Kerstin Thompson Architects uses a “spatial negative” as a delicate counterpoint to the two architectural structures this cellar door sits between – one by Graeme Gunn, the other by Allan Powell.

Interiors
The crescent form of the double curved zinc roof opens up to a large pool, with views to vegetated sand dunes in the distance.

Campfire gathering: Elements of Byron

On a beachfront site at Byron Bay, Shane Thompson Architects has created a multifarious resort complex comprised of neutrally toned cabins and a striking main building with double curved roof forms.

Hospitality
Two-part copper and timber doors, based on a Mexican cathedral, make for a grand and dramatic entry to the QT Melbourne hotel.

A fine pairing: 131 Russell Street and 478 George Street

Two new towers by Candalepas Associates, the hotel QT Melbourne on Russell Street and the AHL Headquarters on George Street in Sydney, complement the existing fabric of the city with compositional finesse.

Commercial, Hospitality
The City of Perth Library, with its distinctive circular form and angled top, maintains open views to the Titles Building.

Civic pride: Cathedral Square

Kerry Hill Architects has led a collaborative redevelopment of the historic heart of Perth since 2009, complementing the existing heritage fabric with architectural insertions at an urban scale.

Hospitality, Public / cultural
Presented as a white glass box, The hotel lobby is located on the ground level. Internally, a glass facade cocoons the lobby space from the utilitarian carpark.

Moth to a flame: Little National Hotel

Taking inspiration from a protected moth, Redgen Mathieson’s design for Little National Hotel is a new concept that brings the idea of affordable luxury to Canberra’s hotel market.

Interiors
The ground-floor lobby has an informal check-in point located under the stairs and a lounge space with a communal table.

Urban paradise: Alex Hotel

Driven by the concept of “hotel as home,” Arent&Pyke and Spaceagency have paid special attention to domestic-like details in the design for a new hotel in Perth.

Hospitality, Interiors
Once a pokies room, the reception area features a reception desk made from illuminated amber-coloured panes of glass.

From a golden era: The Old Clare Hotel

Designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, Sydney’s newest boutique hotel revitalizes Chippendale’s Kensington Street precinct while paying homage to the site’s history with beer and brewing.

Interiors
Pumphouse Point is divided into two buildings: The Pumphouse poised at the end of a jetty in Tasmanian wilderness, and The Shorehouse located on the lake’s shore.

Water born: Pumphouse Point

Set in World Heritage wilderness in Tasmania, this former hydro-electric pump station is now known as Pumphouse Point, a boutique hotel designed by Cumulus Studio.

Interiors
Designed by March Studio, the dramatic entry stair was constructed from more than 2150 pieces of recycled timber.

Hotel Hotel

Hotel Hotel in Canberra is the work of more than fifty creatives. Remarkably, it transcends the sum of its parts.

Hospitality, Interiors
Reinvigorated with a bold facade new rear facade of industrial concrete pipes stacked like kegs or barrels.

In the round: Prahran Hotel

Techne Architects transforms a tired corner pub into a lively hub with a hint of voyeurism.

Hospitality, Interiors
Decks make the most of the views and provide shelter or sunlight at different times.

First House: 1+2 Architecture

1+2 Architecture revisits Walla Womba Guest House, the practice’s first project from 2004.

Hospitality, Residential
King deluxe suite at 1888 Hotel, Pyrmont NSW.

1888 Hotel, Sydney

Shed Architects

Shed Architects and Space Control Design turn a Pyrmont woolshed into a boutique hotel.

Hospitality, Interiors
The private dining room is warm and eclectic.

QT Hotel, Sydney

Eclectic and nostalgic interiors by Nicholas Graham & Associates and Indyk Architects.

Hospitality, Interiors
Reception is in simple white, with the artworks taking centre stage.

The Blackman

Art Series Hotel Group

The Blackman hotel is designed around its collection of artworks by iconic Australian artist Charles Blackman.

Hospitality
Aerial view of the Saffire Freycinet resort, looking across Coles Bay to the Hazards.

Saffire Freycinet Resort

On a picturesque site on Tasmania’s Freycinet Peninsula, Circa Architecture fashions iconic forms into spaces for rest and retreat.

Hospitality
Hotel bedrooms are moody and contemporary with individually selected touches.

Crown Metropol

Bates Smart has made the biggest hotel in the Southern Hemisphere look boutique.

Hospitality, Interiors
A choice of three separate pavilions offers private spaces.

Sangoma Retreat

A retreat in the Bowen Mountains provides a home-style bush experience complete with Glenn Murcutt inspired architecture.

Hospitality, Interiors