PROJECTS

A retro refrigerator provides Aileen Sage Architects with a playful point of reference for this home’s nostalgic yet fresh interior design.

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.

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

Inspired by the sensory experience of coastal surrounds, this home is resplendent in its vivid use of colour and natural light.

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.

An arched concrete house in inner-city Perth takes its cues from a Tokyo library to create chambers of space and a sense of loftiness, despite its small site.

In the Southern Highlands town of Bowral, a new cottage shirks polite defensiveness for porosity, contributing generously to its streetscape while also enabling quiet repose.

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.

Home to three generations of one Melbourne family, this highly mutable house is both a model for responsive infill housing and an ideal fit for its occupants, both now and into the future.

This calm, compact dwelling at the rear of a Victorian terrace in Sydney represents an alternative to conventional home designs that will become increasingly valuable as our urban centres densify and household sizes decrease.

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

Behind what appears to be a single house in suburban Melbourne, two homes offer enough flexibility for both households to enjoy their different stages of life.

Courtyard House by Chrofi is an off-grid house located in the beachside forests of coastal New South Wales that touches the earth lightly.

Designed for a Sydney family to share with their friends, this engaging Central Coast holiday house embodies a collective memory of time spent by the beach.

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.

Nestled against a ridgeline and taking in views to the distant peaks of the national park beyond, this new home in Whoota, on the New South Wales coast, is born of dedication and collaboration.

A monolithic home by Topology Studio confidently emerges from the landscape, capturing distant views to kunanyi and forging a connection to the soundscape of its surrounds.

Edged by an established garden and crowned by an undulating concrete roof-form, this home for collectors on Sydney’s North Shore is a carefully cultivated expression in concrete and glass.

A series of stacked interconnected volumes that carefully negotiate a tricky wedge-shaped site provided the solution for a client wishing to downsize their home without compromising amenity.

On a rocky outcrop at the eastern edge of a secluded beach south of Sydney, this house maximizes opportunities to connect with the spectacular natural environment that surrounds it.

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.

In rural Victoria, a vast industrial shed is the veil for a rationally planned yet intriguing program of living quarters, cooking school and productive farm.

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.