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Celebrating curves: Regent
A gentle, intricate alteration and addition to a Paddington terrace uses soft curves and interlocking forms to graft the new onto the old and provide seamless continuity of space.
ResidentialEnriching presence: ICC Sydney
The ICC Sydney complex, designed by Hassell and Populous, houses the interrelated realms of exhibition, entertainment and conference as part of the revitalization of Sydney’s Darling Harbour.
Public / culturalTelescopic vision: Annandale House
Making clever use of an extreme slope, this robust and detail-focused addition to a weatherboard cottage by Welsh and Major Architects extends across its site like a telescope, creating open, calm spaces in dense inner-Sydney.
Residential‘Intrinsically Sydney’: The EY Centre
Combining a kinetic timber facade and a typology more often associated with slick glass, FJMT has created this “sublime” office tower that is tuned to the history of its harbour-side site and is “intrinsically Sydney.”
CommercialIn disguise: Balmoral House
In Balmoral House by Collins and Turner a choreographed and artful sequence of layered internal and external spaces is contained within a building form that belies its size.
ResidentialAbove the curve: Concord Apartment
This apartment renovation by Retallack Thompson overcomes spatial challenges to add character and charm.
ResidentialIndependent integration: Crown 515
A new set of five apartments by Smart Design Studio discreetly wraps around an existing terrace facade, while announcing itself to the street in a bold, white sculptural form.
ResidentialPrivacy and openness: Coogee House
This new home by Chenchow Little is a private sanctuary that maximizes the impressive panoramic views to the Pacific Ocean, while also contributing to the neighbourhood itself.
ResidentialElemental and abstract: Sydney 385
Smart Design Studio’s new mixed-use building in Balgowlah, Sydney has an elegantly composed, layered outer skin that brings an urbane character to the suburban streetscape.
Commercial, ResidentialBalancing act: Humming Puppy Sydney
Inside an industrial brick building in Sydney’s Redfern, Karen Abernethy Architects in collaboration with Louisa Macleod have designed a space for yogis that is both immersive and reflective.
Commercial, InteriorsShapeshifter: Bronte House
An adaption of a beachside terrace by Archer Office that feels “generous, considerate and creative.”
ResidentialRich and robust: Brick House
A layered arrangement of volumes and materials gives this new home by Andrew Burges Architects a spatial richness and complexity that balances privacy and outlook.
ResidentialNoise mask: Woolloomooloo Apartments
McGregor Westlake Architecture has responded with vigour to a challenging site in Sydney’s Woolloomooloo, creating a quiet and robust retreat from the cacophony of the city.
ResidentialDynamic expression: Unfurled House
An interplay between “sensual curve and straight edge” gives spatial drama and delight to this addition to a Federation home by Christopher Polly Architect.
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