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What from the outside looks like a single detached house is actually three apartments.

Affordability by design: Gen Y Demonstration Housing

Emblematic of a generational shift in thinking about housing, this development of three apartments by David Barr Architects is an example of affordability by design.

Residential
A sense of enchantment and unexpectedness is evident in the transition from one space to another. Artwork: Robert Frith.

Unfurling spaces: North Perth Townhouse

A theatrical reworking of an existing townhouse uses colour and contrast to boldly define the series of spaces.

Residential
From the street, the cragged facade of Dilettante's flagship store in Claremont, Perth gives it a discernible identity.

Sartorial scenes: Dilettante

Textural, architecturally sparse and experimental, Dilettante’s new flagship store in Perth, designed by Ohlo Studio, celebrates the theatrical and subversive presentation of clothing that the brand is known for.

Interiors
Five small-scale workshop pods act as a tiny precinct within the warehouse space.

Claisebrook Design Community

CODA Studio has converted a sleepy warehouse in a forgotten pocket of East Perth into a contemporary co-working space that offers areas to think, create, gather and eat.

Interiors
Ngoolark is more than just a building, it is equally a landscape and a meeting place – providing a social focal point for the campus.

Good as gold: Ngoolark

JCY Architects and Urban Designers’ new Student Services Building for Edith Cowan University provides the Joondalup Campus with more than just a building – it is also a landscape, a meeting place and a symbol.

Education
The City of Perth Library, with its distinctive circular form and angled top, maintains open views to the Titles Building.

Civic pride: Cathedral Square

Kerry Hill Architects has led a collaborative redevelopment of the historic heart of Perth since 2009, complementing the existing heritage fabric with architectural insertions at an urban scale.

Hospitality, Public / cultural
The ground-floor lobby has an informal check-in point located under the stairs and a lounge space with a communal table.

Urban paradise: Alex Hotel

Driven by the concept of “hotel as home,” Arent&Pyke and Spaceagency have paid special attention to domestic-like details in the design for a new hotel in Perth.

Hospitality, Interiors
The blackened exterior form is a reworking of the cottage and shed vernacular that dominates the area.

Dual impact: Exploding Shed house

David Weir Architects creates an“energetic” one-bedroom cottage that provides a place to live and a place to work.

Residential
The original concept for the Reynolds Residence was born when the architect was on a study tour of Alvar Aalto’s work in Finland. Artwork: Walala Tjapaltjarri.

Wisdom of youth: Reynolds Residence

Adrian Iredale of Iredale Pedersen Hook reflects on the practice’s first project, a house that expresses “the youthful sense of pursuing an untested path.”

Residential
To the street, Lake House takes the form of a timber box elevated on stabilizing rammed-concrete walls.

Urban eden: North Perth House

Jonathan Lake Architects creates a new home that makes the most of a small footprint through the strategic integration of garden spaces, balancing privacy and connection between family members.

Residential
A continuous landscape character is woven through the Fiona Stanley Hospital precinct, connecting courtyards, plazas, parklands, rooftops and bushland.

Botanical remedy: Fiona Stanley Hospital landscapes

Perth’s new hospital provides many well-crafted landscapes that service the needs and moods of patients and visitors alike.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Entrance artwork by Jon Tarry, based on an insect chrysalis.

Child’s play: Rio Tinto Naturescape

Plan E has delivered a play area in Perth’s Kings Park with the specific aim of reconnecting children with nature.

Landscape / urban
Chevron-shaped window hoods identify the principal inpatient, acute care wards of the main hospital building at Perth’s Fiona Stanley Hospital.

Natural healing: Fiona Stanley Hospital

The Fiona Stanley Hospital employs evidence-based design principles to make tangible contributions to patients’ wellbeing.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
A glossy black “portal” amplifies light streaming in through golden shimmer curtains.

Carine House

A Perth home by Pendal and Neille that engages with the sublime pleasures of domestic life.

Residential
The provision of seating responds to the site’s northern exposure.

Brookfield Place

A pragmatic urban plaza by Hassell facilitates social richness in an otherwise corporate address.

Landscape / urban
A large opening between the main living space and deck allows a connection with the elements, and for winter sun to penetrate the concrete slab.

Claremont House

A modest Perth bungalow made intriguing by Pendal and Neille.

Residential
The architecture seeks to provoke symbolic interpretation.

Perth Arena

A mesmerizing urban pantheon based on big ideas, local context and the geometry of puzzles.

Commercial, Interiors, Public / cultural
Original materials and fittings were recycled throughout the project.

Gordon Street Garage

A West Perth garage reinvented by Foolscap Studio becomes a casual eatery and bar with local soul.

Hospitality, Interiors
Artist’s impression of Alkmios Beach, WA, looking west to the beach from the Marmion Avenue Regional Centre.

Michael Chapman: Building Alkimos Beach

Lend Lease Communities

Interview from the 2013 Urban Issue of Landscape Architecture Australia about Alkimos Beach, WA.

Landscape / urban
The flexible atelier space allows for multiple configurations.

Kings Park Education Centre

Perth’s new environmental teaching centre by Donaldson + Warn for Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority.

Education, Public / cultural
Melbourne: The interior is based on a bespoke gentlemen’s salon.

Aesop

Twenty-five years have passed since the Aesop story began. We take a look at two recent additions.

Interiors
The Women’s Health and Family Services building (left) and Foundation Housing (right) are located in Northbridge, on the edge of the Perth CBD.

Foundation Housing and Women’s Health, Perth

A diverse public project in Perth combines domestic and institutional qualities.

Commercial, Health, Public / cultural, Residential
Detail of the hand-blown glass orbs.

Nobu restaurant

Singapore-based architect Michael Fiebrich gives the global Nobu brand a distinctively Western Australian restaurant.

Hospitality, Interiors
Kinked geometries animate the building’s forms, inflecting towards the Metro station entry on the corner of Murray and William streets.

One40william, Perth

Bates Smart director Philip Vivian reviews One40william by Hassell.

Commercial, Public / cultural
Looking down Highpoint Boulevard.

Ellenbrook Estate – revisited

Western Australian Government Department of Housing and Works (DHW) , Morella [now Live Work Play (LWP)]

With a number of landscape architecture firms behind its design, Western Australia’s Ellenbrook Estate is worth reflecting on.

Landscape / urban
The atrium, where the inclusion of retail and a cafeteria create a stimulating heart of the hospital.

Rockingham Hospital

Hames Sharley and Silver Thomas Hanley make sense of a complex brief without compromising aesthetics in this hospital.

Hospitality, Interiors
A dramatic roof form is the main feature of IPH’s Florida Beach House.

Florida Beach House

An undulating roof floats above this weekender, creating a series of visual connections with the Indian Ocean beyond.

Residential
The ground-floor studio. Artworks L–R: George Duerden, Jukunda Mona Chuguna, Ted Snell, Mary Moore, Julie Hobbs (vase), Nina Kierath (sculpture), Julie Sylvester (glass sculpture), Queenie McKenzie, Trevor Vickers, Mabel Juli, Jinny Bent.

Iwanoff House (1960s) revisited

Studio of Iwan Iwanoff

The Perth home and studio of Bulgarian-born architect Iwan Iwanoff.

Residential
Beneath curtains of gold anodized aluminium tubes, the staircase ascends to the main theatre.

State Theatre Centre

Kerry Hill Architects’ State Theatre Centre for Perth celebrates transparency, opacity and the urban experience.

Public / cultural
Retail, beauty and massage training spaces front William Street on the building’s western edge.

Northbridge Central TAFE

Lyons Architecture, T&Z Architects

Meaning, motifs and a necessary ambiguity overlap in Lyons’ public face for the Central Institute of Technology in Perth.

Education