PROJECTS

A deft revival of a 1970s project home respects the scale and materiality of the original house, impelled by Sibbel Builders’ underlying ethos of sensitive homes that do more with less.

Marrying heritage and modern elements in a cohesive gable-roofed addition, this project delivers an elegant yet effortless family home.

Victorian and modern, home and garden, communal and private: a clearly articulated design by Kennedy Nolan brings balance to a multifaceted house in Hawthorn.

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

A Victorian terrace conversion in one of Melbourne’s oldest suburbs manages the opposing needs for privacy and openness with ingenuity and surprise.

This tiny apartment in the Melbourne CBD harnesses the elevating qualities of light and smoothness to coax a sense of spatial expansiveness into a petite footprint.

Expert “spatial gymnastics” has been used to create a connected kitchen surrounded by flexible living spaces, resulting in a vibrant hub for family living.

Balancing boldness and restraint, this small-scale addition to a family home in the Melbourne suburbs is a confidently composed riff on the cellular order of the original house.

In inner-suburban Melbourne, the built legacy of a former milk bar has been transformed into a calm family home in which spaces are zoned for practicality and for mood.

Modest and mindful yet formally expressive, this revitalized Melbourne cottage intertwines house with landscape to create a spatially generous family home in harmony with the environment.

Precisely tuned to frame and filter natural light, this reworking of a Melbourne terrace has realized a family home that is both durable and delightful.

This renovation of a Spanish Mission-style house in Melbourne draws inspiration from the beach house, providing an uncluttered backdrop for the vivacity of family life.

At the rear of an existing building with an iconic 1980s interior, a play of light and layering creates a moody and maze-like home in one of Melbourne’s dense inner suburbs.

With space for a young family to grow and hand-laid brick walls for vines to climb, this update to a historic home by Therefore Studio is light-filled and modern while respecting its Victorian heritage.

Stylish and pragmatic, soft and angular, compact and spacious: South Yarra House by Lande is a clean-lined, modernist study in beautifully negotiated contrasts.

This intuitive renovation of a Spanish Mission-style home in Melbourne’s south-east uses deft restraint to celebrate the synergy of art and design.

Designed for the owner of a Melbourne lighting studio, this addition to a Victorian worker’s cottage offers kitchen and bathroom spaces filled with ever-changing light.

Delicious colours of Dolcetto, Iced Vovo and banana Paddle Pop delineate the zones of this hard-working home for a family of six in Melbourne.

In the garden suburb of Elwood, Melbourne, a delicate balance of addition and subtraction gives rise to an elegant home that is intrinsically linked to its site, family and city.

Embracing the character of its 1890s shell, this family home features an unusual combination of materials that is at once dark, moody and surprisingly warm.

A ‘modernist relic’ of concrete and glass forms the heart of this renovated 1930s heritage home, where sanctuary means lush gardens and open, airy spaces secreted away in a busy Melbourne suburb.

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.

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

Wrapped in charred timber cladding and hugged tightly by a lush suburban garden, this discreet addition to an inner Melbourne cottage expertly balances function and folly.

Soft boundaries create multipurpose spaces that reflect a young couple’s character while generous windows connect interiors with “domesticated wilds” around this fluid, functional Melbourne home.

A quaint walkway stepping up from Melbourne’s Yarra River is the sole means of access to this 1930s brick home, where an extension by AM Architecture fulfils the owners’ desire for a treetop sanctuary.

This renovation of an inner-Melbourne terrace by Wellard Architects cleverly navigates the site’s constrained footprint, employing key architectural moves that make for an efficient and uplifting family home.

Clad in pleated copper, this addition to a Federation-era house was the first “real” commission for architect Clare Cousins, who reflects on how projects like this one went on to become a staple for the practice.

This crisp addition to a Federation home exuberantly manoeuvres light, space and monochrome materials to masterfully meet the brief.

This revamp of a worker’s cottage in Melbourne’s inner-north embraces colour and texture in a contemporary take on elaborate Italianate ornamentation.