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Type - Adaptive re-use
Location - Melbourne
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The design, with Venetian-inspired courtyards and flamboyant neo-gothic flourishes, transforms the precinct into a city within a city.

Queen and Collins by Kerstin Thompson Architects and BVN

With precision and nuance, Kerstin Thompson Architects and BVN have come together to create a benchmark workplace and urban project that celebrates and re-energizes the iconic Gothic Bank Complex in Melbourne’s CBD.

Commercial
The large, curving coffee bar features “Golden Cappuccino” marble, brass trim and fluted timber panelling.

Mediterranean connection: Via Porta

Studio Esteta has channelled Italian heritage and urban experiences to transform a nondescript suburban Melbourne shopfront into a welcoming deli and eatery.

Hospitality, Interiors
The windows are double-framed, making the glazing blast-proof in the unlikely event of an explosion at the nearby port.

A deceptively simple cafe: Gathered

Designed by Ewert Leaf, this pared-back and striking cafe in Melbourne’s Footscray belies a host of logistical and functional solutions to manage its portside setting.

Commercial, Hospitality, Interiors
The vast plaster ceiling features copiously repeated prismatic forms, housing lights that can be varied in colour and intensity.

A good Melbourne citizen returns: The Capitol

After a major 1960s downscaling and a series of ad hoc renovations, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin’s Capitol Theatre has been re-engineered to beguile audiences for another hundred years.

Education, Public / cultural
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
The plan of the one-hundred-square-metre studio has been subtly reconfigured and new insertions into the space are meticulously finished.

‘Sensuously textural’: Luxe Ten

Maria Danos Architecture has transformed a graphic design studio space into a moody and textural one-bedroom apartment.

Residential
A new garden pavilion provides a guestroom, music room, laundry, garage and extra storage, while also creating a visually appealing backdrop to the backyard.

Urban multi-tasker: Backyard Studio

Adapting an inner-city site for a young family with a steady stream of interstate guests called for a standalone addition that accommodates a plethora of different activities.

Residential
Myriad small moves were made to restore the warehouse character, including removing internal partitions to make spaces feel more open.

From little things: South Yarra Warehouse

NMBW Architecture Studio achieve a powerful impact with subtle revisions and modifications to a warehouse apartment in inner Melbourne.

Residential
Existing elements such as the black steel struts and multi-paned, steel-framed windows give the project much of its character.

Richmond Warehouse

A warehouse conversion by Techne Architects retains the integrity of the original structure.

Residential
Interlocked exploration space. Tutors: Maud Cassaignau, Joel Lee.

Card Play Space

Department of Architecture Monash University

A cardboard kingdom by first-year students of architecture at Monash University

Education, Interiors
The grassed courtyard on the residential level of the factory.

Sunrise Confectioners Factory

A former factory forms the shell of this residence, housed above a boutique office space.

Interiors, Residential