PROJECTS

Antony Martin’s first house flipped the conventions of the suburban home, orienting living spaces to the street. Antony reflects on the lessons learnt from this formative project.

Evolving and refining the forms of our coastal towns’ once-ubiquitous housing stock, this new residence celebrates an enduring affection for the unassuming beach shack.

Encircling the ruins of the site’s past dwellings, lost to fire, this robust and elegant residence in Victoria’s Central Highlands creates a lasting legacy for a multigenerational family.

Underpinned by a thoughtful balance of pragmatism and craft, this simple but spatially intriguing terrace adaptation responds to the needs of intergenerational living.

With an internal courtyard at its core, this new home for a family of five is equal parts ordered and elastic, providing space for living, working and making in the Sydney suburbs.

On a traditional street in Melbourne’s west, a new house pairs pragmatic planning and cost-effective material use with surprising volume to reframe the dream of a suburban family home.

Seemingly effortless yet upheld by unwavering structural logic, this understated new home invites easygoing living, like the simple beach shacks that inspired it.

Designed to support aging in place, a new home in Melbourne’s Eaglemont responds to its historically significant surrounds and immerses its owners in a tranquil garden setting.

To reconnect their family to a cherished landscape, the owners of this site requested – and contributed to – a generous yet efficient home that makes the most of the surrounding landscape and local materials .

A design collaboration across international borders has given birth to “an abstraction of the typical Australian farmhouse”: a cinematic building that thoughtfully responds to its bucolic setting on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

This new house on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula is designed for many or few, accommodating the ebb and flow of visitors and withstanding the weathering of its coastal locale.

Composed and confident, this new residence by John Wardle Architects in regional Victoria distils the fundamentals of the rural farmhouse into a richly detailed home.

In a gold rush town in north-east Victoria, a new home on a prominent site refuses to defer to the colonial past, demonstrating an alternative, unapologetically contemporary way of responding to the landscape.

Immersed in a preserved bushland setting in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, this calm and composed new home inspires a restful pace for family life.

When designing this compact house at South Melbourne Beach, the architects let the experimental footprint of the original 1950s dwelling inspire their vision for bayside living.

Perched above the beach on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, this refined new house is immersed in its wild coastal setting, offering its owners a calming refuge from city life.

Built in the bush, this collection of architect-designed houses responds to rigorous bushfire safety standards with scrutiny and creativity, exploring ways of living safely and sustainably in the unforgiving Australian landscape.

Inspired by the raw, expressive quality of classic brutalist architecture, this Melbourne home draws on the once gritty and industrial character of its neighbourhood to create a calming, cave-like oasis.

This coastal getaway’s road to completion has been defined by dualities – two architects, two designs and two structural volumes – manifesting in crisp spatial divides and harmonious opposites.

With drums and curves that allude to the brick water towers that dot rural Australia, this playful home flouts convention, delivering an abundance of “good vibes” in the process.

Encapsulating minimalism as a holistic way of living, this house provides a counterpoint to its context and embodies a myriad of simple measures that make a healthy home.

Divided into two highly personalized living wings, this home in regional Victoria is unequivocally functional while also deeply symbolic of its owners’ lives.

House and garden are given equal import at this Point Lonsdale oasis, where a modernist approach of traditional rammed earth has created a home that is at one with its site.

Amid the windswept landscape of the Mornington Peninsula’s southern edge, this house meets ecological and bushfire concerns without compromising on enjoyment.

In this residence on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, the dual influences of one client’s Scandinavian heritage and the suburb’s legacy of mid-century design coalesce in an understated house that revels in the beauty of simplicity.

Two similar yet distinct townhouses in Melbourne, incorporating flexible spaces and fluid transitions, embrace residents with their crisp design and cosy luxury.

Rising from the ashes after bushfires destroyed a beloved coastal retreat, Y House emerges as a calming oasis with multiple levels and unobstructed, panoramic ocean views.

Continuing the legacy of mid-century architects, whose designs have shaped the Melbourne suburb of Beaumaris, this monolithic yet sensitive house embodies the modernist spirit.

Embedded in a landscape of sand dunes and scrubland, the kitchen and bathing spaces of this coastal Victorian home offer refuge and respite to a family during their much-loved beachside vacations.

In a quiet street in Melbourne’s Fitzroy North, this curious family home, appearing as an abstracted worker’s cottage from the street, conceals an open design shaped by two verdant garden courtyards.