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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‘Feels like a treehouse’: Glebe Studio
Cleverly navigating the constraints of a tightly hemmed Sydney site, this flexible laneway studio demonstrates the versatility and appeal of small-scale living.
Residential‘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.
ResidentialSpirited simplicity: Skylit House
A 1950s bungalow is thoughtfully replanned with a utilitarian yet welcoming design that follows the philosophy of “less but better.”
ResidentialCabin retreat: Merricks Guest House
A judiciously planned dwelling on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula is an idyllic setting for quiet repose.
ResidentialFamily 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.
ResidentialA sunny disposition: House Birch
A subtropical bungalow is transformed by Those Architects into a light, bright and unfussy home befitting a beachside lifestyle.
ResidentialState of the art: Spanish Mission House
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.
ResidentialThe 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.
ResidentialEast 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.
ResidentialRetro 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.
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 / culturalDomestic 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‘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.
EducationEducational 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.
EducationSmall 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‘Genuinely inclusive’: Yagan Square
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 / culturalSurprising 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‘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.
ResidentialCommunity, not commodity: Whitlam Place
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.
ResidentialUrbane 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.
HospitalityA 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.
HospitalityOut 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.
ResidentialGeoff 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.
EducationIntricate 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.
EducationWork 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.
InteriorsA sense of ceremony: Bert’s Bar and Brasserie
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, InteriorsParliament 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 / culturalTropical 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‘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