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Confidence and conviction: Rainworth Hill House
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.
ResidentialInclusiveness and community: Backhouse
A compact and sustainable house by Coda Studio that prioritizes connection to family and community encapsulates the progressive ideals of the architects who call it home.
ResidentialCovert suburban intensity: Knutsford Stage 1
This multiresidential design by Spaceagency Architects contributes to a local canon of intriguing medium-density projects in Perth with “deep pragmatism” and “tactile and poetic sensitivity.”
ResidentialFrom ‘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.”
ResidentialCrafting perfection: Bayside Residence
This highly crafted addition to an Edwardian home retains the existing building’s dignified formality while offering robust new spaces for celebrating contemporary family life.
ResidentialArtisanal values: Fish Creek House
Robust, tactile and honest, the design of this new house responds instinctively to its setting, celebrating the human experience and artisanal values.
ResidentialVirtue of restraint: South Melbourne House
Showing restraint and simplicity, a new home by Powell and Glenn is animated by the changing light and shade.
ResidentialSpace graft: Dolls House
Day Bukh Architects has created an addition to a Federation-style bungalow in Sydney’s Randwick by carefully cutting, folding and suturing the new fabric into the old.
ResidentialScandinavian elegance: Carlisle Extension
Sans-Arc Studio creates a Scandinavian-inspired extension to a 1920s worker’s cottage in Adelaide that gives the owners a home they can “wake up and feel really happy in.”
ResidentialHome theatre: Waterloo Terrace
David Mitchell Architects reworks his own inner-Sydney worker’s terrace to create a light-filled home and studio that offers a “site-specific theatre performance.”
ResidentialInto the Labyrinth: Dornoch Terrace House
A “nearly derelict squat” has been transformed into a labyrinthian dwelling that celebrates the work of an artist who once called the site home.
ResidentialLost World pavilions: Ridge House
A striking pavilion duo by Sparks Architects that encourages a connection with the landscape while referencing the heritages of the owners.
ResidentialGarden pavilion: Canada Bay House
A flexible home with a diversity of spatial moods and experiences: Canada Bay House.
ResidentialAn ‘escaped undercroft’: Camp Hill Extension
An interesting model for alterations and additions to a Queenslander home: Camp Hill Extension by Neilsen Workshop and Morgan Jenkins Architecture.
ResidentialSlender splendour: Upsilon House
A home for “simple, rugged, no-fuss living”: Upsilon House by MCK Architecture and Interiors.
ResidentialIn its element: Main Ridge House
Featuring crisp geometry, simple spatial arrangements and rigorous detailing, this lean timber-clad home was designed by Noxon Giffen for sustainability, comfort and a strong connection to the landscape.
ResidentialCut both ways: St Kilda East House
This flexible family home, the practice’s first built project, accommodates two households in one and delivers a series of seductive architectural volumes.
ResidentialSunny outlook: Buena vista
To meet the brief, which included housing five cars, Shaun Lockyer Architects used a relatively simple construction of brick, steel sheeting and fibre cement and then “lifted up” a level, offering tremendous views.
ResidentialLiving alfresco: Bath House
Stephen de Jersey Architect has extended the spatial and material characteristics of an old Queenslander to result in a striking yet respectful addition with delightful settings for everyday living.
ResidentialThrough the looking glass: Garth House
Ola Studio take cues, but not directly, from the existing 1880s home to create Garth House.
ResidentialThe simple life: Myrtle Tree House
Renovations have breathed new life into a Californian bungalow, stitching it into the garden, while respecting the character of the much-loved existing dwelling.
ResidentialSquared up: Point Lonsdale House
With this house at Point Lonsdale on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula, NMBW Architecture Studio has cleverly arranged rooms and non-rooms under a striking roof form.
ResidentialTubular casa: West End House
This home, shaped like two tubes with solid sides that funnel the air through, demonstrates fresh approaches to working with a heritage site.
ResidentialThe long hall: Carlton Cloister
With a compelling ten-metre-long, red brick hallway that offers far more than circulation space, this extension to a Victorian terrace shows just how much can be achieved with a small footprint.
Residential‘Floating on water’: Dunalley House
The pragmatic is mixed with the poetic, as precast concrete, steel and glass come together to form this robust holiday house perched on the Tasmanian coast.
ResidentialDichotomous domesticity: Rosalie House
A cleverly orchestrated sequence creates a division between the public and private spaces in this new home, with a set of integrated garden pockets catering to various family activities.
ResidentialSuburban dialogue: Hip and Gable House
Architecture Architecture’s extension of a Californian bungalow in Melbourne creates a harmonious dialogue between old and new while fostering social engagement.
ResidentialSmall wonder: Tivoli Terrace
Small but clever alterations have been made to a house on a tiny site, opening the interior to the courtyard and giving a new meaning to the concept of “in.”
ResidentialTwin peeks: Clarence Houses
The clever screening techniques used by Rob Kennon Architects in the creation of these non-identical twin houses allow the residents to peek out at the street while maintaining private oases within.
ResidentialLong and lean: Maroubra House
A small postwar home with a large backyard has been reworked to create a much longer and more flexible house, a courtyard now wrapping around its central living spaces.
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