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Punching through the facade, openings frame the panoramic view in vignettes.

Shiplap House by Chenchow Little

An unusual composition with an asymmetrical design, Shiplap House by Chenchow Little is a bold house untethered by contemporary discourse.

Residential
From the street, the structure appears as a monolithic rectangular form projecting above the sloping site supported by slender round columns.

Blok Stafford Heights by Blok Modular and Vokes and Peters

Blok Modular and Vokes and Peters

Perched upon the suburban landscape, this prefabricated design employs a simple, modernist language, in a home centred on living.

Residential
A stepped garden provides visual separation between the ground-floor studio and Steel House. Artwork: Guido Maestri.

Steel House/Stone House by Retallack Thompson

A narrow city site is a complex but rewarding testing ground for two architect owners, who have paired a craggy sandstone terrace with a slender companion building in the design of their own mixed-use, multigenerational home.

Residential
The highly functional house is designed for minimal upkeep and will improve with weathering and age.

Hollywood by Oscar Sainsbury Architects and Insider Outsider

The rituals of beach life are celebrated in this re-worked Phillip Island holiday home, where new additions have been designed with the same accessible approach to sustainability favoured by the original architect.

Residential
The central marble-top island bench is warmed with timber veneer joinery. Artworks (L–R): Susie Dureau, Jake James Tjapaltjarri.

Warm and minimal: Riverview Courtyard House

JDA Studio

A scheme of simplicity and elegance, this minimalist palette is warmed by timbers and the greenery of the home’s gardens.

Residential
Local gidgee stone is the building’s primary material, a design nod to the land art movement begun in the Northern Hemisphere.

‘Ingeniously demure’: Muttaburrasaurus Interpretation Centre

In a tiny Central Queensland town, an elliptical rampart structure built from local stone celebrates a 100-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton and creates a distinguished landmark for palaeontological tourism in the region.

Public / cultural
York by Smith Architects

One for all: York

Smith Architects

Function is key for this family of four, and their reimagined Queenslander is at once sophisticated and relaxed.

Residential
The kitchen bench is now two units: one curved, one angular. Artwork: Cannon Dill. Sculpture (behind blue vase): William Versace.

Mulberry mood: Dream Weaver

YSG

A love of colour united YSG Studio and its clients, and the result is an expressive yet balanced interior with a slick contemporary feel.

Residential
Sorrento House by Fiona Lynch Office.

A Positano palette: Sorrento House

This soothing beachside sanctuary on the Mornington Peninsula by interior designer Fiona Lynch is rich in sea-bleached pastels, earthy materials and comfortable spots to gather in style.

Residential
A twist in the plan achieves privacy for the bedrooms. Memorial Poles (L–R): Barayuwa Munungar, Yimula Munungurr. Sculptures: Eleazer Nanukwirrk (on ledge), Anna-Wili Highfield (on wall), Simon Cavanough (on shelf). Artworks (L–R): Alfred Manessier, Anna-Wili Highfield, Agatha Gothe-Snape. Mirror by Simon Cavanough and Jacqueline St Clair.

Astutely elegant: A House for an Artist

Ciliberto

Beyond its modest, shed-like exterior, this secondary dwelling is both an expedient and elegant solution to small-scale living, providing its artist owner with a canvas to animate with light, life and art.

Residential
At the far end of level ten, the ceiling is higher and fully glazed, like a greenhouse.

Witty elegance: The Upper

In Tokyo, Sydney studio Luchetti Krelle has created two distinguishable yet highly compatible dining retreats, channelling mid-century Italian modernism and Art Deco decadence.

Hospitality
Timber joinery and reeded glass make the kitchen a worthy destination. Artwork: Zhuang Hong Yi.

Cues from the sea: Sandcastle

A sandcastle in more than name, this multi-level home by Raffaello Rosselli and Luigi Rosselli Architects with Alwill Interiors combines beachy colours with clear views of sea and sky.

Residential
Solid blackbutt timber and stainless steel benches ground the kitchen with sleek yet sturdy style. Artworks (L–R): Graham Bligh, Willy Tjungurrayi.

A mini metropolis: Live Work Share House

Three spaces, ten occupants and one flexible plan: Bligh Graham Architects’ Live Work Share House is a multi-use prototype where everyone can feel at home.

Residential
Additions are materially and formally distinct from the existing house.

Elevating everyday domesticity: O House

In Sydney’s Manly, a formerly “fat” brick box has been transformed into a light and bright home that effortlessly flows up a sloped site from front to back.

Residential
The design team chose honest materials that provide visual and acoustic comfort, which also age well with the daily wear and tear of an engineering workshop.

The excitement of experimental activities: Monash Robotics Lab

A robust intervention by Studio Bright delivers radical change, a significant civic contribution and a comfortable place to meet a robot.

Education
Timber and stone create a calm interior atmosphere. Artwork: Rerrkirrwaŋa Munuŋgurr.

Living watercolour: Always

Perched above the beach on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, this refined new house is immersed in its wild coastal setting, offering its owners a calming refuge from city life.

Residential
A courtyard marks the transition from old to new. Artworks (L–R): Christopher Churchill, Julie Nangala Robinson, Lin Onus.

Playful and holistic: Yarra Bend House

This considered renovation’s adaptable design supports long-term connection to community and enables its owner to sustain her independent lifestyle into retirement.

Residential
A central garden connects Stable House to the site’s existing cottage and will become a common space shared by both residences.

Stable House by Sibling Architecture

Regenerating a site rich in history, this vibrant new home, contained within the walls of an old stable, is part of an ongoing multigenerational project that explores alternative models for living together.

Residential
An openable wall draws light and air from the outdoor room into living spaces.

Light and airy: Clayfield Fern House

Paul Butterworth Architect

Voluminous yet resourceful, this lightweight addition to a Queenslander is a pragmatic solution that filters sunlight and buffers noise while also serving as a delightfully adaptable outdoor room.

Residential
The single-storey semis are an unusual presence in a suburb predominantly populated by tall and thin terraces.

Rejoined twins: Paddington House II

A rare opportunity to unite a pair of semi-detached houses in Sydney’s Paddington results in a deceptively generous family home that responds to the spatial geometry of the site.

Residential
The house is arranged in a U-shape, transplanting the backyard into the centre of the site.

Shelter and connect: Evelyn

In Brisbane’s Paddington, an old timber cottage is thoughtfully and skilfully recast as a courtyard house that responds to site, climate and the desire for familial connection.

Residential
In this diminutive reworking of a semi in Sydney’s Lilyfield, living spaces are oriented around a courtyard garden.

Living well, not large: House for a Garden

A delicate balance of addition and subtraction liberates a small and dark bungalow in Sydney, creating a composed home that is less house, more garden.

Residential
The renovation intensifies the immediacy of a dramatic ocean view.

Coastview Apartment by Andrew Burges Architects

A 1960s apartment is judiciously replanned for single occupancy, creating a solitary refuge from which to survey the immediacy and intensity of the ocean view.

Residential
This is the first of four city blocks included in the SJB-developed masterplan for this geographically and architecturally unique part of the city.

A civilized urban conversation: Newcastle East End Stage 1

In a novel alliance between several practices, each team’s distinct design sensibility and autonomy was key, alongside a precise understanding of how each building would interact with its “siblings” and with the central public space connecting them.

Residential
The prism-shaped panels on the main tower facade respond to environmental conditions and form part of the precinct’s comprehensive sustainability strategy.

Urban unity: Melbourne Connect

Woods Bagot, Hayball, Aspect Studios, Hassell, Smart Design Studio, Hot Black, Studio Semaphore, Architectus, Silvester Fuller, Openwork

Melbourne Connect constitutes a range of research, commercial and residential spaces in three interconnected buildings with the aim of fostering innovation through planned and incidental collaboration.

Education
The Victorian Pride Centre building challenges architectural convention just as its tenants and users challenge systems of heteronormativity and patriarchy.

The making of “queer space”: Victorian Pride Centre

Brearley Architects and Urbanists, Grant Amon Architects

At the Victorian Pride Centre, the contributing designers have united to create a building where thresholds are large, boundaries are blurred, uses are not predetermined and transformation is possible.

In the reception area, Australian hardwood timber battens curve around the reception desk.

Modern layering: Aje Headquarters

In Sydney, Those Architects has carefully removed layers to unearth the beauty and understated identity of this original building, and in turn defined it as the headquarters of a contemporary Australian fashion house.

Interiors
Little Prince Wine – a wine bar, bottle shop and cellar – is a new addition to The Prince Hotel.

Royal treatment: Prince Public Bar

The Prince is dead; long live the Prince. IF Architecture demonstrates a deft understanding of an iconic Melbourne venue in this new chapter for St Kilda’s Prince Hotel.

Hospitality
The garden room addition to the Georgian-era cottage embraces its prominent setting.

A garden room with history: Fusilier Cottage Addition

Bence Mulcahy

A Georgian landmark in Hobart’s Battery Point is graced with a surprisingly porous living pavilion that interacts generously with street and garden.

Residential
Although the client profile was not defined at the design phase, the site offers direct access to a range of amenities and services, and the apartments are suitable for diverse users.

Solid touchstone: Goulburn Street Housing

Elegantly yet dramatically increasing inner Hobart’s residential density, Cumulus Studio’s Goulburn Street Housing responds to the heritage context of the streetscape while introducing a new functional and formal typology.

Residential