PROJECTS

Rebuffing the temptation of the singular view, this new house evokes memories of the site’s past occupation to craft a place for living and making on the Brisbane River.

Emblemizing an ambition to build small but better, this contemporary beach shack on the Sunshine Coast sustains a life lived outdoors.

For Kieron Gait, this modest renovation in the Brisbane suburbs was a ‘spare-time labour of love.’ Completed in 2008 by Kieron and his partner Wei Shun Lee, it was both their own home and the unintentional start to their practice.

On Minjerribah, an architect’s keen knowledge of the island setting distils an immersive experience of nature, inspiring a house that is at once architecturally rigorous and environmentally sensitive.

A Brisbane family of five disrupts the conventions of the suburban family home, instead pursuing a ‘city change’ that offers a compelling formula for less house, more life.

Three spaces, ten occupants and one flexible plan: Bligh Graham Architects’ Live Work Share House is a multi-use prototype where everyone can feel at home.

Engaging with a traditional Queenslander in a contemporary way, this home is a progression of spaces, with intersecting sightlines to its neighbourhood at one end.

In the Noosa hinterland, this modest studio – a companion building to a 1980s Quadropod house designed by Gabriel Poole – is a compelling prototype for prefabricated subtropical homes.

In coastal Brisbane, a new house orients family life around a verdant courtyard sanctuary, posing an unexpected response to the conventions of suburban housing.

In the countryside of south-east Queensland, this new residence makes a compelling case for rural living, offering the temptation to commune in private with nature.

Referencing the landscape and vivid family memories, a richly detailed farm house on a pastoral site outside Brisbane provides a grounding platform for ageing in place.

The apparent simplicity of this small, three-pavilion home in Brisbane’s inner suburbs, inspired by the clients’ love of cooking and South-East Asian architecture, is the outcome of a rigorous plan that creates a sum greater than its parts.

On an elevated but steeply sloping site in inner-suburban Brisbane, this new dual-aspect house knits together interior and landscape, striking a balance between traditional building character and contemporary sensibilities.

An intimate knowledge of both the steep site and the inhabitants shaped the design of a connected family refuge in a eucalypt forest on the outskirts of Brisbane.

On an island off the coast of Queensland, a modest but finely crafted weekender captures a camp-like atmosphere and embraces a family’s rituals of island life.

A Brisbane house by Anna O’Gorman Architect balances economy with impact, space with sustainability, function with aesthetics.

Motif, texture and concrete acrobatics unite in this sculptural new home, befitting its majestic escarpment setting on the precipice of Toowoomba’s Great Dividing Range.

Making a case for “right-sized” housing, three secondary dwelling designs illustrate how granny flats are being reinterpreted as site-responsive and sustainable spaces that alleviate contemporary demands on our suburbs.

A thoughtful response to its unique setting and climate in the Gold Coast’s Sanctuary Cove, this house, by Justin Humphrey Architect, embodies principles of subtropical modern architecture to create a textured home for living and entertaining.

Well versed in designing for the tropical Queensland climate, the Gabriel and Elizabeth Poole and Tim Bennetton have collaborated to deliver an exuberant South Stradbroke Island holiday home for the owner and her four grandsons.

At once fluid and contained, this family home embraces the opportunities for connection and retreat offered by its sloping, bush-bound site near the Gold Coast’s Currumbin Creek.

Drawing on an intimate knowledge of the region, the architects of this Queensland house have created a low-maintenance and environmentally sensitive beach retreat for an extended family.

Composed as a series of concrete and masonry platforms, this rigorously executed home by Owen Architecture with Lineburg Wang maintains the pleasure of low -density living through a considered exploration of architecture and terrain.

An exercise in shaping tall volumes, sculpting light and layering materials, this Brisbane home by Bligh Graham Architects is an exciting exemplar for small-lot housing in subtropical suburbia.

An addition to a cottage that had been home to members of the architect’s family since 1939, this project by Deicke Richards balances memory and nostalgia with the need for better connection to the landscape.

An abstraction of the postwar cottage, this addition to a Brisbane hillside house by Owen Architecture is expressed not as a fragment or extrusion but as a hipped-roof whole.

Resting on a steeply sloping, heavily damaged site, this house by Teeland Architects works to stabilize and rehabilitate the land while offering expansive views of the forest beyond.

Balancing a sense of solidity with a contrasting spatial lightness, this 1960s house is indicative of the enduring relevance of architect Peter Heathwood.

Simultaneously a contained and open structure, this calming sanctuary embraces its subtropical setting while defending the interior from rainforest insects.

Imbued with an Italian influence, this worker’s cottage has been transformed by Cavill Architects into an imaginary “ruin” that honours the poetics of decay.