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Shiplap House by Chenchow Little
An unusual composition with an asymmetrical design, Shiplap House by Chenchow Little is a bold house untethered by contemporary discourse.
ResidentialSteel House/Stone House by Retallack Thompson
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.
ResidentialHollywood by Oscar Sainsbury Architects and Insider Outsider
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.
ResidentialWarm and minimal: Riverview Courtyard House
A scheme of simplicity and elegance, this minimalist palette is warmed by timbers and the greenery of the home’s gardens.
Residential‘Ingeniously demure’: Muttaburrasaurus Interpretation Centre
In a tiny Central Queensland town, an elliptical rampart structure built from local stone celebrates a 100-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton and creates a distinguished landmark for palaeontological tourism in the region.
Public / culturalOne for all: York
Function is key for this family of four, and their reimagined Queenslander is at once sophisticated and relaxed.
ResidentialMulberry mood: Dream Weaver
A love of colour united YSG Studio and its clients, and the result is an expressive yet balanced interior with a slick contemporary feel.
ResidentialA Positano palette: Sorrento House
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.
ResidentialAstutely elegant: A House for an Artist
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.
ResidentialCues from the sea: Sandcastle
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.
ResidentialA mini metropolis: Live Work Share House
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.
ResidentialElevating everyday domesticity: O House
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.
ResidentialLiving watercolour: Always
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.
ResidentialPlayful and holistic: Yarra Bend House
This considered renovation’s adaptable design supports long-term connection to community and enables its owner to sustain her independent lifestyle into retirement.
ResidentialStable House by Sibling Architecture
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.
ResidentialLight and airy: Clayfield Fern House
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.
ResidentialRejoined twins: Paddington House II
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.
ResidentialShelter and connect: Evelyn
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.
ResidentialLiving well, not large: House for a Garden
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.
ResidentialCoastview Apartment by Andrew Burges Architects
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.
ResidentialA civilized urban conversation: Newcastle East End Stage 1
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.
ResidentialUrban unity: Melbourne Connect
Melbourne Connect constitutes a range of research, commercial and residential spaces in three interconnected buildings with the aim of fostering innovation through planned and incidental collaboration.
EducationModern layering: Aje Headquarters
In Sydney, Those Architects has carefully removed layers to unearth the beauty and understated identity of this original building, and in turn defined it as the headquarters of a contemporary Australian fashion house.
InteriorsRoyal treatment: Prince Public Bar
The Prince is dead; long live the Prince. IF Architecture demonstrates a deft understanding of an iconic Melbourne venue in this new chapter for St Kilda’s Prince Hotel.
HospitalityA garden room with history: Fusilier Cottage Addition
A Georgian landmark in Hobart’s Battery Point is graced with a surprisingly porous living pavilion that interacts generously with street and garden.
ResidentialSolid touchstone: Goulburn Street Housing
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.
ResidentialSense of belonging: Anne Street Garden Villas
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.
ResidentialShrewd poeticism: Warders Hotel and Emily Taylor
Matthew Crawford Architects has re-imagined a historic row of cottages with significant cultural heritage as a boutique hotel and restaurant–bar.
Hospitality‘Peak Voronoi’: HOTA Gallery
The design for Australia’s largest regional art gallery encompasses convivial interiors to attract a broad audience, while its bold exterior repeats the motif used by ARM in previous structures for the Gold Coast’s cultural precinct.
Public / culturalLand of memories: The Farmhouse
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.
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