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Connect Six by Whiting Architects.

Limber living: Connect Six

Expert “spatial gymnastics” has been used to create a connected kitchen surrounded by flexible living spaces, resulting in a vibrant hub for family living.

Residential
A double-height volume over the living area at Glebe Studio expands the sense of space. Artwork: Patricia Kamara.

‘Feels like a treehouse’: Glebe Studio

Proepper Architects, Angela Rheinlaender

Cleverly navigating the constraints of a tightly hemmed Sydney site, this flexible laneway studio demonstrates the versatility and appeal of small-scale living.

Residential
Designed for independence, the couple who share Seawind live across two separate wings joined by shared relaxation spaces.

‘A perfect home for our third age’: Seawind

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

Residential
Skylit House by Downie North.

Spirited simplicity: Skylit House

A 1950s bungalow is thoughtfully replanned with a utilitarian yet welcoming design that follows the philosophy of “less but better.”

Residential
This is a crisp, minimalist kitchen in a house that serves as a holiday retreat for the owners’ family and friends.

Cabin retreat: Merricks Guest House

A judiciously planned dwelling on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula is an idyllic setting for quiet repose.

Residential
The handpainted fibre cement ceiling gives the living areas their distinct identity and contrasts with the kitchen’s understated material palette.

Family ties: Courtyard Deck House

This renovation of a Spanish Mission-style house in Melbourne draws inspiration from the beach house, providing an uncluttered backdrop for the vivacity of family life.

Residential
The kitchen is central to the home’s spatial configuration. Artworks: Bobby Clark (left wall), Ash Holmes (back wall).

A sunny disposition: House Birch

A subtropical bungalow is transformed by Those Architects into a light, bright and unfussy home befitting a beachside lifestyle.

Residential
The kitchen, though reconfigured in plan, has retained and emphasized original archways, windows and cornice details. Artwork: Thomas Paule.

State of the art: Spanish Mission House

Kennon

This intuitive renovation of a Spanish Mission-style home in Melbourne’s south-east uses deft restraint to celebrate the synergy of art and design.

Residential
The richness of the kitchen’s spotted gum finishes makes it a warm, inviting space for the everyday activities of family life. Artwork: Jason Wing.

The rejection of ‘more’: St Johns Wood Residence

Local timber and bronzed mirror wrap the pared-back spaces of this refreshed Queenslander, which draws in its leafy suburban surrounds.

Residential
Adjusted to the slope of the land, the house is designed to be experienced in all seasons and moods.

East Street House by Kerstin Thompson Architects

With views to Mount Huon, this home in rural New South Wales achieves much with its simple form, offering a space for all seasons and a “free plan” where occupants can decide how and when rooms are used.

Residential
The home’s kitchen island is a piece of bespoke furniture that forms the scheme’s focal point. Artwork: Caroline Numina.

Retro revival: Torbreck Apartment Renovation

Taking cues from mid-century modern design, this apartment in Brisbane’s classic Torbreck tower combines period character with contemporary functionality.

Angled handrails on the front stairs add an unlikely sense of flamboyance and reframe the building’s forecourt as a plaza that invites public gatherings.

The cosmopolitan and the local: Milani Gallery and Studios

Vokes and Peters has refurbished a warehouse in Brisbane’s West End, incorporating the character of the subtropical context.

Public / cultural
Surrounded by lush planting, the kitchen and dining space feels as though it’s nestled within the garden.

Domestic joy: Harry House

Wrapped in charred timber cladding and hugged tightly by a lush suburban garden, this discreet addition to an inner Melbourne cottage expertly balances function and folly.

Residential
A sepia photo of residents performing a play in 1913 (a provocative “paean to female agency”) becomes a frieze for the body of the Sibyl Centre.

‘Looking backwards to look forwards’: Sibyl Centre

Stories dating back more than a century infuse this addition to the first university college for women in Australia.

Education
Curtin University’s Bentley campus was founded in the 1960s. The design for Think Space was inspired by neo- futuristic architecture of the era.

Educational engine room: Curtin Think Space

In Perth’s south, Curtin University’s new Think Space by Arcadia Design Studio aims to promote collaboration and the cultivation of new ideas between the university and industry.

Education
The kitchen and living areas are filled with colour and texture, which makes this a home of unmatched vibrancy and energy.

Small but mighty: Il Duomo

This revamp of a worker’s cottage in Melbourne’s inner-north embraces colour and texture in a contemporary take on elaborate Italianate ornamentation.

Interiors, Residential
The square’s design integrates architecture, landscape and art, including a nine-metre statue, Wirin, designed by Tjyllyungoo (aka Lance Chadd) and sculpted working with Stuart Green from Big Spoon Art Services.

‘Genuinely inclusive’: Yagan Square

Lyons Architecture with Iredale Pedersen Hook and Aspect Studios

The collaborative design for Yagan Square in the heart of Perth returns the site to its origins as a people’s meeting place and links previously disconnected parts of the city.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The varied and unexpected ceiling heights at Fitzroy Terrace result in spatial clarity and delight. Artwork: Brooke Holm.

Surprising grandeur: Fitzroy Terrace

Within a seemingly typical Victorian terrace house, new shifts in volume and dramatic apertures to the sky create the illusion of impossibly spacious proportions.

Residential
The house occupies a site that, for two decades, had been maintained as a fenced private lawn. A cloister at the street corner preserves the memory of this emptiness.

‘Memory palace’: Subiaco House

A new house in Perth at once recollects and reconsiders the suburban house, employing a garden room to mediate between individual and collective suburban life.

Residential
The south facade overlooks a park and Fitzroy Town Hall. Two courtyard houses occupy the top floor, their courtyards seemingly carved out of the glazing.

Community, not commodity: Whitlam Place

Freadman White and Anon Studio

A self-initiated housing venture in Melbourne’s Fitzroy, replete with conceptual clarity, delicate form-making and extraordinary quality of finish, is a rare counterpoint to the uniformity of multiresidential development.

Residential
Porosity at the three public-street frontages, 
in particular the arcade on James Street, strengthens the building’s civic gestures.

Urbane luxury: The Calile Hotel

A new hotel in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley is evocative of luxury tropical resorts yet also carefully assimilates into the emerging urban character of the James Street precinct.

Hospitality
In the dining and sitting spaces, solid walls give way to operable glazed panels that allow the pavilion to be transformed into a platform.

A strong sense of place: Three Capes Track Lodges

Part of an evolving tradition of place-sensitive architecture in the Tasmanian wilderness, these walking lodges sit back in the landscape and let the spectacular scenery take precedence.

Hospitality
The delicate timber structure of the old Queenslander house has been rotated 90 degrees and raised onto concrete stumps.

Out from under: Teneriffe House

In rethinking the “raise and build under” renovation strategy so often applied to Queenslander houses, Vokes and Peters has added an elegant layer to the narrative of this historically rich dwelling.

Residential
The curving, singular form, which occupies the south-east corner of the campus, acts as a grandstand-like backdrop to the adjacent oval.

Geoff Handbury Science and Technology Hub

Enveloped in an intriguingly veiled and aptly futuristic form, this new facility at Melbourne Grammar School offers some compelling insights into the future of science and technology education.

Education
Studios are contained within the two-storey stables wing. First-floor studios on new floors are broken up with floor-to-roof voids that allow views of the original structure.

Intricate recasting: The Stables, VCA

This considered refurbishment honours a once-vital part of Melbourne’s infrastructure, transforming the formal rhythm of stables and riding halls into flexible studios and performance spaces for the Victorian College of the Arts.

Education
Pinboards running the length of the office are essential to the team’s design process, encouraging dialogue and acting as a communication mechanism for staff.

Work wonders: Techne Studio

For its new home in Melbourne’s Carlton, Techne Architecture and Interior Design has created a workplace expressed as a venue for creative production.

Interiors
Rattan panels accentuate the form of the ceiling and are a reminder of “a straw hat that would have been worn on a paddle steamer.”

A sense of ceremony: Bert’s Bar and Brasserie

Akin Atelier

Designed by Akin Atelier, Bert’s Bar and Brasserie in Sydney’s Northern Beaches is reminscent of the grand hotel dining rooms of the 1930s.

Hospitality, Interiors
Located behind Kerr and Knight’s Parliament House, the members’ annexe provides 102 offices for members of the Parliament of Victoria.

Parliament of Victoria, Members’ Annexe Building

A companion building delicately grafted into the garden setting of Victoria’s Parliament House realizes the long-anticipated extension to one of Melbourne’s most prominent civic landmarks.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The floating roof ties together the home’s concrete and timber elements and gives lightness to its form.

Tropical textures: Cove House

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.

Residential
Sliding panels and bifold doors allow the interior to return to its original singular volume. Artwork: Elliott “Numskull” Routledge.

‘Changing the performance’: Camperdown Warehouse

Fusing concepts inherent in furniture design and architecture, this conversion of a former motor vehicle factory in Sydney serves as a prototype for a novel approach to adaptive re-use.

Interiors, Residential