PROJECTS

Chromatically controlled yet experientially rich, this apartment design adapts an unusual wedge-shaped plan and the drama of a double-height void to satisfy desires for both solitude and sociability.

A singular house in the sky, this apartment pays tribute to the gilded optimism of the building’s 1970s architecture and its broader urban context, asserting a sophisticated vision of domestic life in the city.

Built to foster community in and around its residences, this precinct in Melbourne’s inner-north comprises six apartment buildings with diverse designs united by shared values.

A new approach to this apartment in Melbourne’s inner north supports homeowner agency – and family wellbeing – with customizable plans that suit multiple ways of life.

Melbourne-based Ellul Architecture’s fastidious reworking of a studio apartment creates opportunities for space and sociability in small-footprint living.

A remarkable brief to reconfigure two top-floor apartments into an adaptable, multigenerational home is met with precision and artistic flair, combatting flat, rectilinear design with colour, composition and light.

Overlooking the main beach in Queensland’s Noosa, this house captures that relaxed, beach holiday feeling.

Sydney’s Quay Quarter Tower shows that with planning foresight, architectural ingenuity and engineering rigour, even the most complex of existing buildings can be transformed to extend its life.

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

Designed to welcome a new baby and support a work-from-home lifestyle, this Sydney apartment comforts with clean surfaces and calming tones.

NMBW Architecture Studio and MADA rethink the design of accessible, affordable housing and create an apartment block in outer Melbourne and a new model for ageing in place.

This apartment building transcends its “boarding house” classification with its rigorous planning, light-filled studios and generous communal space.

Sheathed in a distinctive shell of raw concrete, this apartment reveals a calm and cocooning interior that balances a muted palette with moments of material intensity.

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.

Taking cues from mid-century modern design, this apartment in Brisbane’s classic Torbreck tower combines period character with contemporary functionality.

The subtle kitchen and bathroom updates in this 1960s apartment have created a rich interior that combines decadent materials with sparkling harbour views.

Skilfully expressing a Melbourne apartment’s distinctive 1960s style with a contemporary redesign, Murray Barker and Esther Stewart deftly select materials to make big statements that suit this small space.

Joinery and materials are an opportunity for expression in this Bondi apartment, inspired by the area’s Art Deco architecture and laid-back beach vibe.

A series of small, surgical interventions to a modest 1960s apartment in Sydney results in a reimagined interior that speaks to the past yet is firmly set in the present.

Curvaceous forms combine with warm-toned custom joinery and thoughtful transitions in this delightful adaptation of an open-plan Brisbane apartment.

Standing in dialogue with Fender Katsalidis’s earlier tower, Eureka, a new tall tower attempts to walk the sensitive line between public engagement, community development and private residence.

From 1980s glam to calm minimalism, this Gold Coast apartment has been transformed into an understated home that suits its young family’s lifestyle.

Jacqui Alexander traces the evolution of Nightingale Housing and reflects on two of the built developments.

This community project is a testament to the genuine value and design innovation that architects can bring regardless of income, status or tenure.

In this raw concrete block, Chenchow Little does not shy away from firmly anchoring its work in the urban fabric of Sydney’s fast-growing Green Square precinct and making an emphatic mark through scale.

With an emphasis on design quality and detailing, this home by Powell and Glenn and Mim Design fuses the classic and contemporary to reimagine apartment living as generous and bespoke.

Apartments in an iconic block on Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point Peninsula retain the best features of the rustic Queenslander while fulfilling the needs and expectations of contemporary urban dwellers.

A compact apartment in inner-city Sydney is transformed into a bijou home distinguished by rich colour and decadent materiality: 1906 by Amber Road.

Sitting atop a nineteenth-century brick warehouse in Sydney’s Surry Hills, the celebrated Droga Apartment, completed in 1997 by Durbach Block Jaggers, embodies the architects’ idiosyncratic design sensibilities.

This modern take on the classic walk-up apartment – by Fieldwork and Flack Studio – is arranged around a verdant central courtyard, designed to foster community.