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Highgate Park House captures the owners’ inclusive and dynamic Mediterranean heritage.

A sense of familiarity and nostalgia: Highgate Park House

An addition to an 1860s cottage, Highgate Park House allows passers-by a glimpse into the history of its Brisbane suburb while affording those who live there a home that is distinctly their own.

Residential
A long, second storey housing three bedrooms for the younger generations stretches the length of the front boundary.

All in the family: Kindred

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.

Residential
Cooks River House complements the character of suburban Sydney yet feels like a mountain escape.

Suburban escape: Cooks River House

Immersed in a tumbling hillside garden, this reworking of a Federation-era bungalow in Sydney’s Inner West eschews suburban tropes in favour of spaces that foster connection with the landscape.

Residential
MPavilion 2019 by Glenn Murcutt.

Glenn Murcutt, the ‘pavilion architect,’ on his MPavilion

Linda Cheng interviewed Murcutt at his MPavilion to discuss what a pavilion means to him and how this space creates serenity in central Melbourne.

Public / cultural
Located in the sculptural rear addition, the living spaces at Ruckers Hill House give material form to family customs.

A lyrical family home: Ruckers Hill House

With civic ambition and a highly personal attention to detail, this ‘house of many rooms’ is a considered new layer in the cultural palimpsest of inner Melbourne.

Residential
A generous multi-functional library is large enough to accommodate events and meetings alongside essential day-to-day amenity.

Crafted modernism: SJB Sydney Studio

When SJB embarked on a major redesign of its Sydney studio, it was a unique opportunity to create an authentic and friendly workplace that fostered equity, creativity and a sense of pride and belonging for all.

Commercial
The expansive cream brick floor, with its stack bond pattern, creeps up the concrete counter.

Earthy attire: Prior

Ritz and Ghougassian’s designed for a Melbourne restaurant, Prior, is predicated on its its inclination towards tropes and visual cues of the great outdoors.

Hospitality
An anomalous site in Erskineville, the rear of which is a street frontage, enabled the design of the unusual dwelling.

An architectural ‘pet’: Erskineville Creature

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.

Residential
The brief was for new works and furniture to be distinctly modern but visually quiet and complementary.

Stripping back layers: Hollow Tree House

Core Collective Architects restored a colonial-era house in regional Tasmania, meticulously preserving Georgian details.

Residential
At the urban and interior scale, the Link can be read like an arcade, the retail typology celebrated in the early twentieth century.

A contemporary colonnade: The Link at Chadstone

Make Architects

The Link by Make Architects (design architects) and Cera Stribley (delivery architects) is an elegant walkway that connects the largest shopping centre in the Southern Hemisphere with an office tower and a hotel.

Commercial, Interiors
Timber screens mediate light, heat and privacy on the upper level without blocking views.

Building for the climate: Goskar House

Anna O'Gorman Architecture

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

Residential
The architecture of Aman Kyoto is visually simple and minimalist to allow nature and landscape to dominate. The Living Pavilion forms the social hub of the property, and opens onto a large timber dining terrace with sunken fire pit.

Suspended in time and space: Aman Kyoto

Kerry Hill Architects offers a finely detailed and thoughtful interpretation of traditional Japanese architecture in its latest hotel for Aman.

Commercial
Floor area has been carved out of the house wherever possible and given over to the courtyard.

Suburban tranquility: Park Life

Architecture Architecture has created a tranquil home for an artist and a curator on this slice of Melbourne suburbia.

Residential
A concrete monolith supports garden beds on the upper level while providing intimate courtyards for the occupants below.

De-compartmentalizing a Queenslander: Park Road House

Lineburg Wang’s eloquent reimagining of this sprawling Queenslander has opened up space for visiting family and friends while improving connectivity and function for the retired homeowners.

Residential
The market hall includes a series of simple, self-contained pods. Artwork: Nike Savvas.

‘A place to explore’: Darling Exchange Market Hall

Known primarily for its restaurant interiors and, increasingly, its residential architecture, Anthony Gill Architects has completed its most ambitious project to date, the market hall in Kengo Kuma’s Darling Exchange in Sydney.

Commercial, Interiors
The translucent polycarbonate screens between bays make for a spatially dynamic environment that fosters a sense of safety.

‘Welcome to Sparkletown’: Northshore Car Wash

Twohill and James‘s Googie-style car- and pet-washing facility is a community landmark that encourages social activity and adds character to its suburban Townsville location

Commercial
Despite a restrained use of colour and geometry, Fowler and Ward’s careful composition makes for a striking streetscape.

Transgenerational living: Thornbury Townhouses

Fowler and Ward

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.

Residential
From the street, the connection with the arts centre foyer is strong, while the silhouetted forms visible inside the studios above are intriguing.

Complex relationships: Geelong Arts Centre

In the second stage of the rejuvenation of Geelong Arts Centre (formerly Geelong Performing Arts Centre), Hassell has inserted into the site a hovering form that incorporates not only large foyers and studios but also ancillary spaces that speak to the institution’s desire for greater accessibility and inclusivity.

Public / cultural
Courtyard House demonstrates the value of architectural design combined with prefabrication.

Prefab off-the-grid: Courtyard House

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

Residential
The interior’s walls and floors are lined with honed London White Marble, giving the space a soft, winter feel. Ozlana’s staple product is the parka.

Winter wonderland: Ozlana

Pattern Studio has created a calming, wintry and almost otherworldly flagship store in Sydney for luxury Australian brand Ozlana.

Commercial
With its cryptic facade, Phoenix both responds to its urban surrounds and conceals its interior miscellany.

Miracle box: Phoenix Central Park

Behind a singular brick facade, John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers have brought into dialogue a labyrinthine gallery and a timber-lined performance space.

Commercial
The playing field acts as a town centre for the planned suburb of Marsden Park, with the amenities building providing generous spaces for sporting and other community events.

Big-hearted optimism: Marsden Park Amenities

In a new suburban community on Sydney’s fringe, a robust yet whimsical structure provides an injection of amenity, quality and participation via well-designed facilities, voids for social gatherings and the joyful use of pattern.

Public / cultural
Bespoke copper sheeting and recycled tallowwood will develop a patina over time, allowing the building to immerse itself in the landscape.

Research and conservation: Mon Repos Turtle Centre

Mon Repos Turtle Centre by Kirk navigates firm constraints to create a focal point for research and conservation.

Public / cultural
The design enables a multiplicity of readings, leaving space for the visitor to participate in the meaning of the memorial, collaboratively and with empathy.

An empathetic act: For Our Country

At the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, an unconventional monument eschews reference to particular people or events in order to incorporate broader meanings, from the ancient past and into the future.

Public / cultural
The high table used for blending is deliberately located in the front window, playing an integral role in the tenancy’s street presence.

Raw and tactile: Seen Skin

Melbourne design studio Golden has taken Seen Skin’s confident approach to skincare and translated it into a spatial experience rich in texture and tactility.

Commercial, Interiors
A generous balcony extends out to the fig trees, supported by a self-bracing steel post.

Memories, moments and artful planning: Breezeway House

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.

Residential
JCB used Passive House principles for Gillies Hall in line with Monash University Peninsula campus’s net-zero carbon emissions strategy.

Gillies Hall on the Mornington Peninsula

This Passive House-certified design rethinks the traditional student housing typology and creates a hilltop “village.”

Education
UTS Central by FJMT.

Recoding campus architecture: UTS Central

At UTS Central, with its glass-wrapped podium and twisting tower, FJMT both dances with the University of Technology Sydney’s existing structures and defines the future using new design and construction techniques that facilitate individual and collaborative study.

Education
Byres Street by Cavill Architects in association with Hogg and Lamb.

Grand gesture: Byres Street

Designed by Cavill Architects in association with Hogg and Lamb, this Brisbane office building uses a grand atrium and staircase to encourage interaction and a sense of community.

Commercial, Interiors
New layers, including window seats, shelves and linings, have been added to the living spaces.

Intertwining past and present: Bozen’s Cottage

A dexterous restoration of a Georgian cottage in a historic Tasmanian village is executed in timber and mild steel – materials that pay tribute to the past and the story of those who have lived there.

Residential