PROJECTS

In the Perth suburbs, a new home deploys an efficient plan and varied outlook to forge connections for a close-knit family with their garden, their neighbourhood, and each other.

Deploying the activist potential of an architect’s own home, this new house in Western Australia is a testing ground for low-carbon living.

Part of Murdoch University’s 20-year masterplan, a new, monumental mass-timber building expands the character of the bush campus and provides spaces geared toward contemporary, collaborative learning methods.

In suburban Perth , a decisive new house honours the homeowner’s aspirations for monumental structure, using brave formal order to frame opportunities for light, airiness and calm introspection.

“Addition by subtraction” was the approach taken in the redesign of this Fremantle cottage, which pairs crisp interiors with light-filled courtyard gardens.

A passion for food, art and the Western Australian coast inspired the transformation of this 1960s house into a retreat that values history and the clever use of space.

This striking renovation of a South Fremantle house boldly expresses the site’s architectural imprints, giving structure to the transformation from the ground up.

Matthew Crawford Architects has re-imagined a historic row of cottages with significant cultural heritage as a boutique hotel and restaurant–bar.

Edged by swathes of native garden, this addition to a historic home in Perth brings to life a series of stories, instilled with childhood memories of the past and in the making.

A collaborative experiment in medium-density housing led by Western Australia’s land development agency seeks to subvert traditional suburban development.

A desire to connect – to community and the natural world – inspires this lyrical addition to an unassuming Perth worker’s cottage, resulting in sculptural spaces that seem to contract and expand.

An arched concrete house in inner-city Perth takes its cues from a Tokyo library to create chambers of space and a sense of loftiness, despite its small site.

Contemplative and brave, this new house on a prominent corner site in Perth eschews the suburban status quo to connect its occupants with their community and climate.

Sketched on a napkin, the first house of Perth architect Finn Pedersen was designed “with great bravado” and inspired by the houses of Le Corbusier and Charles and Ray Eames.

In Perth, the Elizabeth Quay precinct has proven popular but its success depends on “unfinished business.”

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.

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.

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.

A small but reverential addition to the Cathedral Precinct in Perth reinvigorates its heritage context and reintroduces site to citizen.

As the centrepiece of an urban rehabilitation project east of Perth’s CBD, this sporting landmark is uniquely of its place while also serving as an international gateway to the city.

Informed by Roman courtyard houses, this Perth home artfully responds to its climate and suburban context by sculpting a domestic sanctuary out of concrete, timber and light.

At Perth’s new urban square, Yagan Square, flexibility and history provide a platform for engaging with changing notions of national identity, Reconciliation and civic life.

With a university population of more than 58,000 students, Perth’s Curtin University engaged Geyer to overhaul its student services interface, restoring a campus jewel in the process.

Perth’s new Intercontinental hotel, designed by Woods Bagot and Chada, is the second reincarnation of a 1970s office block and proof that the finer things get better with age.

By responding to site at a variety of scales, Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects has designed a new primary school building in Perth’s Highgate that offers both intimacy and engagement with its inner-suburban context.

Architect Simon Pendal reflects on his first project, his own house in Fremantle WA, which he built with his life partner Rebecca Angus.

Architect Kate Fitzgerald of Whispering Smith prevailed against government regulations to create this compact home in Perth that represents a novel approach to increasing density in the suburbs.

A sensitive reworking of a traditional cottage has transformed not only the house but also its owners, who initially felt indifferent about the prospect of renovating.

A celebration of the process and legacy of making, this house by Local Architecture transcends its modest site and budget through strategic manipulations of light and form.

This multiresidential design by Spaceagency Architects contributes to a local canon of intriguing medium-density projects in Perth with “deep pragmatism” and “tactile and poetic sensitivity.”