PROJECTS

A playfully edited 1980s house on the Mornington Peninsula is a refined seaside hideaway, inciting occupants to commune with nature and each other.

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.

Robust and refined, this extensive reworking of a timber-and-tin cottage in Brisbane’s Spring Hill offers one busy family a calming backdrop to life outdoors.

An undulating brick wall is a proud and protective edge to an exposed suburban site, enfolding a rich and unexpected domestic setting within a cohesive architectural gesture.

Relaxed yet sophisticated, this renovated Adelaide home has been designed for living and hosting in crisp, modern style.

Delicate incisions reorganize an interwar home in Melbourne’s south-east, providing clever adaptability and welcome autonomy for its downsizing owner.

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

Freed from the confines of its Victorian-era order, an end terrace in Melbourne is respectfully reprogrammed to suit contemporary family life.

A minimalist approach to a 1960s apartment renovation pares back extraneous elements and, through the process of subtraction, generously rewards its owners.

Faced with renovating a diminutive Victorian cottage in Hawthorn, this architect made the daring choice to abut bathroom and kitchen – with surprising results.

A systematic approach to renovations at this terrace house in Melbourne’s inner-north yields a rational yet flexible design that supports playful family living.

Surprising and joyful , this one-room addition to a compact Georgian cottage is the outcome of a six-year-long conversation and collaboration between architect and client.

Huw Wellard and his wife Jade learnt new skills and called in favours to transform an “uninhabitable” house in the back streets of South Melbourne. Ten years on, Huw reflects on the small but satisfying project.

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.

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.

Completed in 2013, this diminutive yet delightful addition to a Fremantle cottage launched Philip Stejskal Architecture from “relative obscurity” to the national stage, and continues today as the practice’s quiet ambassador.

“Better not bigger” was the tenet for the reimagining of this Melbourne home, with a design that subverts the typical terrace plan and prompts a recalibration of what one needs to live well.

Private yet permeable, defensive yet decorative, this lively new addition on a constrained Melbourne site both enriches family life and animates the neighbourhood.

A celebration of family life infuses this gently refreshed Federation house in North Perth, where a new addition unfolds in a series of dramatic yet intimate gestures to embrace the beauty of domestic life.

Grecian stone, ocean colours and fluted profiles recall faded Athenian glamour in this reworking of a heritage home in Melbourne’s Little Greece precinct, transforming a dark, unremarkable series of rooms into a dreamlike spatial sequence.

On a Melbourne laneway, an ambitious addition has transformed a small, dark terrace into a five-storey family home, offering a prototype for vertical living in the inner-city suburbs.

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.

Unostentatious but meticulously considered, this Melbourne home is an evolved response to an all-too-familiar brief: juggling heritage constraints and limited space with the demands of family life.

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.

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.

This Brisbane house by John Ellway Architect is inspired by the simple joy of a children’s game.

Delicate and decisive, the reworking of this tall and narrow Sydney terrace is underpinned by astute planning, elegant craftsmanship and a keen focus on a connection to the outdoors.

With its strong connection to the surrounding landscape, this renovated 1930s farmhouse in Victoria’s Tuerong is a place of sanctuary that feels far away from the world.

Striking a balance between old and new, this architect’s own home reinvents the traditional Queenslander with confidence and precision, achieving elegance and openness in a compact plan.

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.