PROJECTS

This meticulous adaptation of a Georgian terrace in a tightly protected heritage precinct has seen layers removed, revealed and revived in a fine composition of old and new.

Volumes of warmly lit timber define Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s library and members lounge redesign, which simultaneously respects heritage and serves contemporary communities.

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.”

A sensitive renovation to a Sydney home juggles opposing needs for light and privacy, creating spaces for mindfulness and delight.

A third chapter for a house designed in 1961 by Peter Muller, with subsequent additions by Glenn Murcutt and Wendy Lewin, is a masterfully layered design that connects with the past, and with place.

In a delicate balance between conservation, intervention and demolition, TZG has unified an “unruly collection of parts” to bring a cultural icon back to the centre of community life in Sydney.

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

Behind an existing terrace in Sydney, a tiny new build defies expectations by creating an apparently spacious yet private home that considers its neighbours and the planet.

After thirty years at home in this two-storey terrace house, an artistic pair sought renovations to prepare for a few decades more.

A former cobbler’s workshop is reborn as a dexterously planned family home, signalling the latent potential in the repair of our cities’ industrial heritage.

Designed by emerging studio Saha, this ceramics workshop in Sydney’s Bronte disappears under a green roof of foliage, while robust materials, such as brick and concrete, reflect the creative nature of pottery making.

A thoughtful renovation updates and repairs the interior of this well-loved 1950s home with new elements that also preserve treasured family memories.

On the edge of a ridge west of Sydney, Anthony Gill Architects has set up a theatrical performance, linking a 1970s home with a new guesthouse in a single composition that both occupies the landscape and respects its magnificence.

This Surry Hills fashion store, designed by young practice Pattern Studio, is a celebration of dualities – exuberant yet sophisticated, polished yet relaxed, hyper-industrial yet playful.

A move into town from a remote farming community inspired the brief for this Armidale site: restore its original nineteenth-century homestead and build a new, complementary living pavilion.

A long-awaited expansion to Central Station’s Northern Concourse reworks decades of disparate elements to deliver clear wayfinding, strong civic scale and ample natural light.

Yirranma Place in Sydney is a skilful exercise in adaptive reuse, guided by SJB. The design’s two overarching principles – sensitivity and respect – help to create a multifunctional workplace in a grand 1920s building.

Conceived a decade ago, SANAA’s design for a new wing for the Art Gallery of New South Wales gradually draws visitors down a steeply sloping site, through a series of offset pavilions and into a dramatic space inside a World War II fuel tank.

In Sydney’s CBD, a small, collaborative project makes a significant contribution to the city’s public spaces, encouraging us to consider multiple perspectives and our own place in the universe.

Small but sufficient, this home on the New South Wales north coast pursues a reductive approach to the holiday house, proposing small-footprint simplicity as the antidote to busy city life.

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.

A sculptural addition to a grand, Victorian-era house in Woollahra offers its owners a decidedly contemporary, cocoon-like home that connects with its own garden and an adjoining, semi-private grove.

In a surprising yet entirely appropriate intervention, ARM Architecture has worked with a diverse team of experts to improve acoustics, access and mechanics in one of Australia’s most iconic heritage buildings.

Melbourne-based MRTN Architects has created a thoughtfully resolved home in Tamworth in regional NSW that draws on the legacy of agricultural sheds.

Architecture studio Welsh and Major has given a Sydney drinking hole a new lease on life with a design that highlights the building’s chapters of history spectacular coastal location.

This farmhouse in Kempsey in northern New South Wales is a seminal work, much admired both in Australia and abroad. Modest, flexible and adaptable to climate, it endures as a model for responsive, responsible design.

Compact in size yet richly rewarding to the lives of its occupants, this new living pavilion in Sydney’s Mosman employs porous edges to allow family life to unfurl into the garden.

Inside meets outside in a Byron Bay house that has a profound connection to nature and a grounding in exceptional craftsmanship.

Sydney’s Quay Quarter Tower shows that with planning foresight, architectural ingenuity and engineering rigour, even the most complex of existing buildings can be transformed to extend its life.

For Andrew Benn, the invitation to design a one-room addition – not much larger than a garden shed – was the launching pad for his fledgling practice. Here, he reflects on the legacy of that first commission.