PROJECTS

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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

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

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

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