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Location - Melbourne
Year completed - 2018
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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
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
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, 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
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
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 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 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
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
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
Twin skylights meet to form an abstract infinity symbol, which represents the owners’ relationship.

Coming together: His and Hers House

Sculpted around the simple daily enactment of the owners’ newly shared life, this addition to an inner-Melbourne terrace by FMD Architects represents a binding together of stories, memories and moments.

Residential
The archives are positioned so that visitors can engage directly with the racking system. Artwork (clockwise from left): Tuppy Goodwin, Christian Thompson, Charlie Tararu Tjungurrayi and Lisa Wolfgramm.

Judicious editing: Artbank

Edition Office’s skilful reworking of the Artbank premises in Melbourne’s Collingwood highlights the practice’s “judicious editing of intention.”

Interiors, Public / cultural
Monash University Learning and Teaching Building by John Wardle Architects.

Monash University Learning and Teaching Building

Curiosity and humility colour John Wardle Architects’ approach to designing this new learning and teaching building at Monash University’s Clayton Campus, where references to the landscape cultivate a rich field of spatial and learning experiences.

Education