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Sydney House by Cavill Architects
A contemporary yet complementary addition to a 1950s house in New Farm is a tribute to the unsung history of brick in Brisbane’s residential architecture.
ResidentialThe Imperial by Welsh and Major
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.
HospitalityIndustrial 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 / culturalStripping back layers: Hollow Tree House
Core Collective Architects restored a colonial-era house in regional Tasmania, meticulously preserving Georgian details.
ResidentialArchitectural archeology: Install House
In one of the oldest structures in Tasmania, Partners Hill has created a mixed-use space, and a home, that honours the building’s varied historical program, while equipping it thoughtfully for 21st century life.
Commercial, ResidentialA ‘one-in-100-year renovation’: Concrete Blonde
Tucked behind an existing heritage home on a tight block with a south-facing yard in Sydney, this generous addition offers light-filled, textured spaces with a natural, earthy palette.
ResidentialA 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 / culturalA material experience: Balmain Rock
Taking a restorative approach to the renovation of a sandstone cottage in Sydney’s inner-west, Benn and Penna has composed contemporary materials to pay homage to the quality of the original historic home.
ResidentialSheds for sharing: North Melbourne House
Seizing an opportunity to build on an empty neighbouring block, the owners of a worker’s cottage in North Melbourne (with the help of NMBW Architecture Studio) have added a flexible secondary house that will allow them to age in place.
ResidentialTribute to a world-wanderer: Captain Kelly’s Cottage
Through a forensic and addictive process of discovery, John Wardle Architects has painstakingly added to and restored this cliffside cottage on Bruny Island with “humble deference” to its history and the world-wanderer who called it home.
ResidentialFrom ‘hose to house’: Bayside Fire Station
The restoration of a former fire station in Brisbane by Owen Architecture reimagines a unique typology as a comfortable family home, achieved with a design strategy that was “deliberately singular.”
ResidentialCivic 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 / culturalThe Condensery: Somerset Regional Art Gallery
PHAB Architects has revived a former condensed milk factory in Toogoolawah, Queensland through considered restoration and contemporary gestures.
Public / culturalDynamic power: Irving Street Brewery
Tzannes Associates’ adaptive re-use of the former Kent Brewery in the heart of Sydney’s Central Park retains the brick facade and inserts part of a trigeneration plant that powers the neighbourhood.
Public / culturalJewel in the crown: 50 Martin Place
Johnson Pilton Walker revives a monumental building in one of Sydney’s most significant civic spaces.
CommercialCairns Foreshore Development
A landmark collaborative project led by the landscape architecture team at RPS.
Landscape / urbanAnsarada Office
Those Architects create a new work/life balance in the global office of a young tech company.
Commercial, InteriorsBrisbane City Hall
One of Queensland’s most important heritage buildings, reborn by Tanner GHD in Association.
Interiors, Public / culturalTempe House & Studio
Eoghan Lewis Architects turns a heritage sandstone cottage into a contemporary home and studio.
Interiors, ResidentialNick’s Head Station
The revival of an historic Maori site wins New Zealand’s highest landscape architecture award.
Landscape / urbanEast Melbourne House
Zoë Geyer’s respectful renovation of a grand historic terrace includes some resolutely modern moments.
ResidentialCowshed House
The bold reworking of a late-nineteenth-century cowshed in Sydney by Carterwilliamson Architects.
ResidentialGlebe Town Hall
After an extensive conservation program, the 130-year-old building reopened in March 2013.
Public / culturalThe Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability
A once inaccessible Sydney site is repurposed by Hassell as an environmentally sensitive community space.
Landscape / urbanHampton House
A Melbourne house refashioned by Kennedy Nolan Architects with Arts and Crafts elements.
ResidentialWilloughby Incinerator revived
The Willoughby Incinerator by Walter Burley Griffin and Eric Nicholls is adapated as an artist’s studio, gallery and café.
Hospitality, Public / culturalManchester Unity Building
Built in 1932 as a beacon of hope during the Depression, Melbourne’s gothic, art deco masterpiece has been restored.
Interiors620 Wickham Street
Practice as critique, and architect as heritage activist. In restoring Karl Langer’s 1954 shopfront, Riddel Architecture challenges the canon of Australian architectural modernism.
Commercial