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Goodhope by Those Architects
A reliance on first principles and a nuanced understanding of the site enabled Those Architects to transform two buildings into a conjoined space to host diverse creative practices.
CommercialTasman Gallery by Benn and Penna Architects
A former shed in Byron Bay designed to balance art, life and work adapts to the changing creative needs of its users.
InteriorsDairy Road Masterplan
On a site east of Canberra and adjacent to wetlands, a collaborative team whose process inverts the “master” plan paradigm is gradually designing a diverse neighbourhood in a restored landscape.
Commercial, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural19 Waterloo Street by SJB
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.
ResidentialYirranma Place by SJB
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.
InteriorsNew Farm Neighbourhood Centre by Vokes and Peters with Zuzana and Nicholas
With its alterations and additions to an inner-suburban Brisbane Queenslander, a local design team created spaces that work together like an ensemble cast to encourage human habitation and celebrate the community’s daily routines.
Public / culturalCollingwood Yards by Fieldwork
In repurposing the derelict site of an inner-Melbourne technical college, this project seeks to embed arts in the community, provide affordable studio space in an otherwise unaffordable area and create public amenity that is welcoming to all.
Public / culturalQueen and Collins by Kerstin Thompson Architects and BVN
With precision and nuance, Kerstin Thompson Architects and BVN have come together to create a benchmark workplace and urban project that celebrates and re-energizes the iconic Gothic Bank Complex in Melbourne’s CBD.
CommercialIndustrial cathedrals: Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
A dexterous amalgam of architectural interventions turned a 100-year-old pier on Sydney Harbour into a permanent home for some of Australia’s leading performing arts companies.
Public / culturalPathway to a dense, historic and beautiful city: Substation 164
Sustainably compact, respectfully resolved and thoughtfully arranged so that heritage and modern elements complement one another, this redevelopment of two Sydney CBD buildings offers hope for the city’s future.
A sustainable, integrated neighbourhood: Burwood Brickworks
Suburban, replicable, sustainable: Burwood Brickworks furthers the conversation by returning to first principles to deliver smart resource management – and resident empowerment.
CommercialFrom deforestation to regeneration: Spring Bay Mill
An old woodchip mill on Tasmania’s east coast, once an integral part of the state’s controversial logging industry, is now a post-industrial events and performance venue and the site of ongoing environmental regeneration.
Public / culturalSimple pleasures: Noosa Heads House
In Noosa Heads, a tired suburban house is resourcefully remade into a robust but welcoming retreat that emphasizes the simple pleasures of a holiday home by the coast.
ResidentialBohemian legacy: The Hat Factory
In a once bohemian suburb of Sydney, a modest building that became a symbol for squatters’ rights has been sensitively renovated to retain its significance beyond its scale.
ResidentialMediterranean connection: Via Porta
Studio Esteta has channelled Italian heritage and urban experiences to transform a nondescript suburban Melbourne shopfront into a welcoming deli and eatery.
Hospitality, InteriorsA deceptively simple cafe: Gathered
Designed by Ewert Leaf, this pared-back and striking cafe in Melbourne’s Footscray belies a host of logistical and functional solutions to manage its portside setting.
Commercial, Hospitality, InteriorsA good Melbourne citizen returns: The Capitol
After a major 1960s downscaling and a series of ad hoc renovations, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin’s Capitol Theatre has been re-engineered to beguile audiences for another hundred years.
Education, Public / culturalFlying colours: Giraffe Early Learning Centre
In Sydney’s Northern Beaches, architecture studio Supercontext has restored and reused a heritage substation, converting it into a place for children to play and learn.
EducationIntricate recasting: The Stables, VCA
This considered refurbishment honours a once-vital part of Melbourne’s infrastructure, transforming the formal rhythm of stables and riding halls into flexible studios and performance spaces for the Victorian College of the Arts.
Education‘Changing the performance’: Camperdown Warehouse
Fusing concepts inherent in furniture design and architecture, this conversion of a former motor vehicle factory in Sydney serves as a prototype for a novel approach to adaptive re-use.
Interiors, ResidentialCivic ambition: Lismore Regional Gallery
In the regional city of Lismore, Dominic Finlay Jones Architects in association with Phil Ward has paired a modest, thoughtful intervention with community-minded thinking to design a thoroughly successful civic space.
Public / culturalJoynton Avenue Creative Precinct
In this robust work of adaptive re-use, Peter Stutchbury Architecture has reached back into history to transform an ensemble of former hospital buildings in Sydney’s Green Square Town Centre into a dynamic public arts precinct.
Public / culturalFull bloom: Terrarium House
The maverick move of inserting a lush, tree and fern-filled void in the place of a front verandah distinguishes this unorthodox reworking of the Queensland cottage type.
‘Thrillingly Simple’: Possum Shoot Shed
A simple pavilion formed from the remnants of an existing shed, this “thrillingly simple” project makes the most of its majestic site.
ResidentialA playful ideal: East Sydney Early Learning Centre
An existing building, playground and laneway have been radically recast and creatively integrated, thanks to Andrew Burges Architects’ design for a new childcare and community facility in the densely knit Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst.
Education‘Sensuously textural’: Luxe Ten
Maria Danos Architecture has transformed a graphic design studio space into a moody and textural one-bedroom apartment.
ResidentialClaisebrook Design Community
CODA Studio has converted a sleepy warehouse in a forgotten pocket of East Perth into a contemporary co-working space that offers areas to think, create, gather and eat.
InteriorsCivic 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 / culturalCanopy of industry: Tonsley Main Assembly Building Redevelopment
A former car assembly building redeveloped by Tridente Architects and Woods Bagot plays a central role in the ongoing development of the sixty-one-hectare precinct of Tonsley.
Landscape / urban, Public / culturalUrban multi-tasker: Backyard Studio
Adapting an inner-city site for a young family with a steady stream of interstate guests called for a standalone addition that accommodates a plethora of different activities.
Residential