PROJECTS

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.

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.

As Sydney pursued a public conversation about brutalist architecture, a new building in Surry Hills was making its mark.

Of one with the once-gritty Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, this spatially thoughtful, materially honest apartment building shows what can be achieved when a multiresidential project favours homeliness over expediency.

Appearing as an object in the landscape and giving generously to its inner-Sydney context, Cowper Street Housing by Andrew Burns Architecture reasserts the well-loved terrace as a relevant and useful housing type.

The 2018 Commonwealth Games Village, designed by Arkhefield, ARM and Archipelago, optimizes the potential of its Parklands site and sets a precedent for considered medium-density development on the Gold Coast.

Opting for depth and shadow over transparency and lightness, SJB has designed an apartment building for Sydney’s Alexandria that is imbued with drama, richness and unexpected intensity.

Billard Leece Partnership and SJB Architects’ mixed-use project offers Sydney a new model for balancing private comfort and civic neighbourliness.

Bates Smart’s twin elliptical towers in Sydney’s Olympic Park present architecture as a positive force in city life.

On a 126-square-metre site in suburban Sydney, Hill Thalis’s Studios 54 demonstrates how small sites can be used inventively to make the city richer and more diverse.

Combining playfulness, restrained minimalism and respect for the terrace house typology, Blane Brackenridge Architecture has created three “convincing” hillside dwellings in Fremantle, Western Australia.

A residential development in Singapore by WOHA Architects masters the boundaries between public and private.

A compelling contribution to Sydney by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects.

A complex and layered multi-residential project by Candalepas Associates.

Cox Rayner Architects explores the social and political contribution architecture can make to the city.

A Brisbane multi-residential project by Bureau Proberts.

A deft inner-Sydney theatre conversion by Hill Thalis.

A unique Port Melbourne apartment complex for the homeless by MGS Architects.

A Melbourne public housing project by McCabe Architects and Bird de la Coeur Architects.

Collins and Turner Architects gives their Sydney apartment block a shimmering cloak of steel.

This Melbourne development represents how good design can make apartment living even more appealing.