PROJECTS

Professor of architecture at the Melbourne School of Design, Paul Walker reviews MPavilion 10, designed by Japanese architect and 1995 Pritzker Prize laureate Tadao Ando, and executive architect Sean Godsell.

This modest home in Sydney’s Wahroonga is an exemplar in how small, relatively inexpensive modifications can totally transform a dwelling.

Abundant enthusiasm outweighed limited experience for Sam Crawford when his sister called with an invitation to renovate a tired 1950s beach shack. Sam reflects on how this house, designed in collaboration with Emili Fox, kickstarted his career in architecture.

With an internal courtyard at its core, this new home for a family of five is equal parts ordered and elastic, providing space for living, working and making in the Sydney suburbs.

Continuing our series on holiday homes on the islands off the main coast of Australia, here are five houses that capture the essence of Straddie life.

In Queensland’s Gold Coast Hinterland, a cabin hovers above a rainforest and floats among the clouds. Fittingly named Cloudview, the holiday accommodation is located on the peak of Springbrook Mountain.

With traditional construction methods beset by time and cost uncertainties, the time is ripe to explore alternatives. This prefabricated house is assembled in just three weeks.

Reflecting its residential context, this junior learning hub by Sibling Architecture uses colour and form to meet the needs of those in their first years at school.

Preferring elaboration over eradication, this adaptation of a 1970s house disrupts pervading Gold Coast attitudes toward older housing and revels in its suburban context.

On a traditional street in Melbourne’s west, a new house pairs pragmatic planning and cost-effective material use with surprising volume to reframe the dream of a suburban family home.

Taking complex site conditions in its stride, this compact worker’s cottage addition channels the suburb’s industrial character while crafting a surprisingly secluded urban sanctuary.

We round up five houses on Victoria’s Phillip Island, to see how architects have responded to the island’s beach culture, the wind-swept landscapes and endemic structures.

In this extract from The New Modernist House, author Patricia Callan discovers how this 1958 standout example of the new modern living was brought back from near death through an immense 12-year labour of love.

Branch Studio Architects and Marcellin College seek to enhance student wellbeing through a series of empathetic interiors that re-interpret the Marist Brothers’ Catholic tradition.

Taking inspiration from Brazilian modernist design principles, this secluded family home by Rama Architects recedes discreetly into its backdrop on the verdant shoreline of Sydney’s Clareville Beach.

This resourceful alteration forgoes the temptation to build anew, instead recalibrating a Victorian home and its 1990s addition to suit contemporary family life.

Changing constraint to opportunity, the design of this new home turns a Sydney site edged with a jagged sandstone face into a private setting well suited to family life.

This artfully composed outdoor room reconsiders the central courtyard of a seminal Queensland home, providing a dog-proof filter between the house and the street.

Reminiscent of a treehouse, this 1992 beach house, designed in 1992 by Col Bandy, employed efficient construction to minimize its impact on the site. Today, it is evocative of the simple pleasures of a seaside weekender.

In the civic heart of Canberra, a new restaurant adapts to changing times of day and functional requirements with a dynamic design by My My My Architecture.

This new house in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales recalls the clients’ former farmhouse and provides a secluded sanctuary shielded from the street view.

Set in the subtropical verdure of Brisbane’s New Farm, this outdoor room is an ornamental frame of blockwork and foliage that contributes to an elevated, extroverted domestic life.

On a farm in Victoria’s Golden Plains that operates as a biodiversity offset, this house is at once uncanny and homely, creating a restful base for taking care of the land.

A light-washed addition to an Edwardian dwelling retains the warmth and character of a much-loved family home, ready for the next generation’s memories and milestones.

Known for its unfussy hospitality, this beloved venue in south-west Perth has undergone a thoughtful and textural redesign by Rezen Studio that welcomes regulars and newcomers alike.

This deceptively simple A-frame cabin deploys flat-pack fabrication and DIY assembly to respond to a burgeoning global mobility and the movement toward a circular economy.

The garden at a new house on the Tweed coast is a subtropical romance, with house and outdoor room lying in delicate concert.

A “make-do and mend” approach renews a bungalow in the Southern Highlands, fine-tuning the home to provide greater independence for a family of four.

On a site east of Canberra and adjacent to wetlands, a collaborative team whose process inverts the “master” plan paradigm is gradually designing a diverse neighbourhood in a restored landscape.

Delicate and inventive accretions to a Perth duplex encourage flexible occupation and sustain a multigenerational family that seeks both refuge and connection.