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The architecture of Estia House makes no suggestion that its residents should be housed differently – it is a space for them to live beyond their disabilities, where good domestic design elements are deployed.

Taking care: Estia House

A permanent residence for ten adults with disabilities, this group home in Sydney by Candalepas Associates demonstrates how a building designed specifically for group housing balances independence and care.

Residential
Each room of this new home opens up to pocket-sized courtyards and views to the sky.

Clean slate: Coastal Semi

A carefully considered rebuilding of a coastal semidetached home by Jason Gibney Design Workshop.

Residential
The house now connects directly to the north-facing rear courtyard. Artwork: Beret.

Space graft: Dolls House

Day Bukh Architects has created an addition to a Federation-style bungalow in Sydney’s Randwick by carefully cutting, folding and suturing the new fabric into the old.

Residential
The simple worker’s terrace has been transformed into an “immersive theatre of beautifully crafted spaces and elements.” Artwork: Peter Coates.

Home theatre: Waterloo Terrace

David Mitchell Architects reworks his own inner-Sydney worker’s terrace to create a light-filled home and studio that offers a “site-specific theatre performance.”

Residential
A timber-framed pergola, accessible through both the rumpus and living spaces, is an ideal spot for children to play.

Garden pavilion: Canada Bay House

A flexible home with a diversity of spatial moods and experiences: Canada Bay House.

Residential
Far from dark and gloomy, the narrow house uses extensive glazing and a lifted roof to let in ample daylight.

Slender splendour: Upsilon House

A home for “simple, rugged, no-fuss living”: Upsilon House by MCK Architecture and Interiors.

Residential
A compact bar provides a hotel-like offering to foster a collegial atmosphere. Artwork: Jim Morrison Was Here (2014) by Ben Quilty.

Paramount by The Office Space

Housed in the iconic Art Deco Paramount House in Sydney’s Surry Hills, this shared office designed by Woods Bagot is both thoughtful and handsome.

Interiors
Large floor-to-ceiling windows let in ample sunlight and showcase the scenic view of Sydney Harbour.

Art of living: Darling Point Apartment

Chenchow Little create a deceptively simple yet skilfully crafted apartment in Sydney for a couple of downsizers with an extensive art collection.

Residential
Aerial perspective of Sydney Park.

Waste not, want not: Sydney Park

Occupying a former landfill site, the Sydney Park Water Re-use Project by Turf Design Studio and Environmental Partnership is an impressive fusion of design, science, art and ecology.

Landscape / urban
The glazed curtain wall of the new Novartis building works to explicitly communicate the transparency of the company’s practices and public presence.

Workplace drama: Novartis Head Office

HDR Rice Daubney’s design for Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Macquarie Park, Sydney provides staff and visitors with a complex, layered and dramatic experience.

Commercial
The twin elliptical towers of Australia Towers make for an impressive sight, with alternating striations of glazed surfaces and bronze panels.

City life: Australia Towers

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

Commercial, Residential
The kitchen, once a dark and “daggy” room, is now an extension of the dining space, showered in sunlight. Artwork (at right): Richard Paul Lohse.

Small wonder: Tivoli Terrace

Small but clever alterations have been made to a house on a tiny site, opening the interior to the courtyard and giving a new meaning to the concept of “in.”

Residential
The placement of the courtyard distinguishes the kitchen from the dining/living space, while simultaneously connecting them.

Long and lean: Maroubra House

A small postwar home with a large backyard has been reworked to create a much longer and more flexible house, a courtyard now wrapping around its central living spaces.

Residential
The protrusion of treads at the bottom of some flights hints at the possibility of vertical movement and unseen rooms beyond.

Light box: Centripetal House

Panov Scott’s renovation to a nineteenth-century terrace house arouses curiosity and encourages exploration.

Residential