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A new living pavilion occupies the previously underutilized backyard. Artworks: Lewis Miller (top), Lucie de Moyencourt (bottom left), Pip Spiro (bottom right).

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.

Residential
Existing rooms are pared back to feature original brickwork and interior tiles.

The 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.

Hospitality
The conversion of the site into a permanent home for Sydney’s arts institutions will ensure the preservation of the historic structures into the future.

Industrial 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 / cultural
The brief was for new works and furniture to be distinctly modern but visually quiet and complementary.

Stripping back layers: Hollow Tree House

Core Collective Architects restored a colonial-era house in regional Tasmania, meticulously preserving Georgian details.

Residential
Install House by Partners Hill.

Architectural 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, Residential
The two-storey addition provides an open living, kitchen and dining area with direct connection to the garden.

A ‘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.

Residential
The vast plaster ceiling features copiously repeated prismatic forms, housing lights that can be varied in colour and intensity.

A 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 / cultural
Balmain Rock by Benn and Penna.

A 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.

Residential
Comprised of varied shed-like spaces, North Melbourne House is personalized by the texture and colour of everyday objects.

Sheds 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.

Residential
In the living room, a window seat looks over the “blessed ancient landscape” through broad, multipaned windows that can completely slide away.

Tribute 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.

Residential
Since 2004 the fire station has been used as a private residence. The current owners engaged Owen Architecture to improve the “cramped and disconnected” spaces and circulation.

From ‘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.”

Residential
The City of Perth Library, with its distinctive circular form and angled top, maintains open views to the Titles Building.

Civic 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 / cultural
The structure at the western end of the building has been completely rebuilt. The building’s elevation subverts the symmetry of its gable.

The Condensery: Somerset Regional Art Gallery

PHAB Architects has revived a former condensed milk factory in Toogoolawah, Queensland through considered restoration and contemporary gestures.

Public / cultural
The architects retained the facade of the former Kent Brewery, designed by Maurice Halligan and F. H. B. Wilton and constructed in 1912.

Dynamic 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 / cultural
The Beaux-Arts revivalist-style building at 50 Martin Place has been revitalized by Johnson Pilton Walker for Macquarie Group.

Jewel in the crown: 50 Martin Place

Johnson Pilton Walker revives a monumental building in one of Sydney’s most significant civic spaces.

Commercial
Queensland Maple and Brown Penda decking from the site were recycled into the new built structures.

Cairns Foreshore Development

A landmark collaborative project led by the landscape architecture team at RPS.

Landscape / urban
The floating fitout barely touches the heritage-listed building shell.

Ansarada Office

Those Architects create a new work/life balance in the global office of a young tech company.

Commercial, Interiors
Original marble surfaces, plasterwork and oak joinery.

Brisbane City Hall

One of Queensland’s most important heritage buildings, reborn by Tanner GHD in Association.

Interiors, Public / cultural
The polycarbonate-clad, hardwood studio at the rear.

Tempe House & Studio

Eoghan Lewis Architects turns a heritage sandstone cottage into a contemporary home and studio.

Interiors, Residential
The completed landscape at Nick’s Head Station.

Nick’s Head Station

Nelson Byrd Woltz

The revival of an historic Maori site wins New Zealand’s highest landscape architecture award.

Landscape / urban
Main bedroom. Artwork (L–R): Dick Watkins, John Peart, Ken Whisson.

East Melbourne House

Zoë Geyer’s respectful renovation of a grand historic terrace includes some resolutely modern moments.

Residential
The character and shape of the original cowshed are kept.

Cowshed House

The bold reworking of a late-nineteenth-century cowshed in Sydney by Carterwilliamson Architects.

Residential
The Glebe Town Hall’s restored Victorian Free Classical facade.

Glebe Town Hall

After an extensive conservation program, the 130-year-old building reopened in March 2013.

Public / cultural
The underground tunnels provide access to Balls Head Reserve.

The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability

A once inaccessible Sydney site is repurposed by Hassell as an environmentally sensitive community space.

Landscape / urban
The front door was moved from the front to the side of the house.

Hampton House

A Melbourne house refashioned by Kennedy Nolan Architects with Arts and Crafts elements.

Residential
Willoughby Incinerator revived

Willoughby Incinerator revived

Walter Burley Griffin and Eric Nicholls

The Willoughby Incinerator by Walter Burley Griffin and Eric Nicholls is adapated as an artist’s studio, gallery and café.

Hospitality, Public / cultural
The level-11 lobby with original marble inlay flooring.

Manchester Unity Building

Smile Solutions

Built in 1932 as a beacon of hope during the Depression, Melbourne’s gothic, art deco masterpiece has been restored.

Interiors
High-tech materials such as metal and glass sit alongside heritage columns.

FEX

Contemporary, high tech design is contrasted with heritage grandeur at FEX, a media hub and television studio in Sydney.

Interiors
Projecting out beyond the front window, a yellow door offers a single point of solidity within the otherwise transparent facade.

620 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