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Sliding panels and bifold doors allow the interior to return to its original singular volume. Artwork: Elliott “Numskull” Routledge.

‘Changing the performance’: Camperdown Warehouse

Fusing concepts inherent in furniture design and architecture, this conversion of a former motor vehicle factory in Sydney serves as a prototype for a novel approach to adaptive re-use.

Interiors, Residential
The proportions of the new marble hearth have been exaggerated to register the length of the living room.

The art of inhabitation: Kia Ora

International Style modernism tempered by a youthful Italianate spirit instils this Melbourne apartment by Baracco and Wright Architects with a new layer of architecture that nimbly resists periodization.

Interiors, Residential
Located in the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, Woods Bagot’s residential and retail building presents a memorable facade of staggered concrete forms and dense foliage.

Tall ambitions: Short Lane

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

Residential
Natural light and verdant views enter the penthouse through considered apertures. Artwork: Brent Harris.

A jewel among trees: Whitlam Place

Freadman White, Anon Studio

In an unconventional apartment building, where each dwelling is individually tailored to its owner, this playful penthouse uses circular geometry and takes cues from classic Italian design.

Residential
The plywood skin offers continuity across walls, joinery and the unique vaulted ceiling.

Box of tricks: The Bae Tas

Liz Walsh and Alex Nielsen

Architects Liz Walsh and Alex Nielsen have transformed a tiny Tasmanian flat into a “deft box of tricks,” a cleverly crafted guest space looking out to the Derwent River.

Interiors, Residential
The architects have eschewed a completely open plan in favour of distinct, comfortable spaces. Artworks: Louise Blyton (top left); Rohan Hutchinson (bottom left); Cameron Robbins (right).

Homeliness over expediency: Peel by Milieu

DKO architecture

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.

Residential
Andy Macdonald of MI Architects was excited by the idea of “colonizing underutilized roof space.”

First House: Challis Penthouse

As one of his first projects, Andy Macdonald of MI Architects was given the opportunity to explore his interest in “colonizing underutilized roof space.” Eighteen years later, Andy reflects on this apartment design and its influence on his practice’s subsequent work.

Residential
Small walled courtyards fill both dwellings with natural light and ventilation while also providing a space for plants.

A neighbourly venture: Loft House x2

Born of a unique collaboration between neighbours, this project by Brad Swartz Architects saw two rear-lane parking spaces in inner Sydney transformed into spatially elegant one-bedroom dwellings that evoke a sense of calm.

Residential
Elwood House makes sense of its location in Elwood’s Ormond Road, employing a refined and elegant architectural language.

Simple pleasures: Elwood House

This new apartment block by Woods Bagot with Hecker Guthrie fits neatly into the fabric of its village street, while perfectly suiting its inhabitants, who wish to simplify life.

Residential
The splash of colour in the kitchen cabinetry was inspired by the bold yellow floor of Le Corbusier’s Cabanon. Artwork (L-R): Sally Ross; Minnie Pwerle.

Small pleasures: Studio 1

Agius Scorpo Architects’ clever reconfiguration of a twenty-three-square-metre apartment within Melbourne’s early modern Cairo Flats preserves the modernist spirit while creating space for a contemporary life.

Residential
The recently completed development comprises seven one- and two-bedroom townhouses, set on formerly surplus council land alongside the Upfield Bike Path.

Social architecture: Coburg Townhouses

Schored Projects’s Coburg Townhouses, a community housing development in Melbourne’s north designed for women in need, reminds us of the capacity for social architecture to make change.

Residential
Cowper Street Housing by Andrew Burns Architecture.

Cowper Street Housing

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.

Residential
Carefully considered landscaping by Cardno responds to the natural surrounds and enhances the amenity of the adjoining public beach access.

‘An authentic architecture of materiality’: M3565 Main Beach Apartments

This prestigious beachside apartment building by Virginia Kerridge Architect stands out from its neighbours by virtue of its articulate materiality and sensitive human scale.

Residential
Water cascades through an oculus in the Disc, which offers shade and evaporative cooling, while providing a visual anchor to the Village Heart and main park beyond.

Home game: Parklands

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.

Residential
The massing and articulation of the porthole windows create the impression of a large single residence, as opposed to separate apartments.

All-round suburban: Cirqua Apartments

With a design described as a “lyrical interpretation” of local building styles, the massing and articulation of this multiresidential project by BKK Architects is sensitive to the scale of its suburban Melbourne context.

Theatrical curtains allow the house to be switched from work mode to home mode, adding a sense of the domestic to the workplace but also a sense of drama to the home.

Playfully accessible: Frenches Interior

Sibling Architecture strikes a good balance between function and delight in this accessible home office in inner-city Melbourne.

Interiors
Refreshingly robust: 41 Birmingham

Refreshingly robust: 41 Birmingham

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.

Residential
The apartment’s floor plan underwent “radical surgery” to make the most of the views.

Highly crafted: Freshwater Apartment

A focus on craft and making provides this radically reconfigured apartment with a sense of warmth and tactile materiality, enhancing its stunning views.

Residential
With its cast iron hearth and connection to the outdoors, the living space has the feel of a country house. Artwork: David Larwill.

Cleveland Rooftop by SJB

This apartment, rich in detail and immersed in greenery atop a 1930s factory building in Surry Hills, is an urban oasis that sets an impressive precedent for apartment design.

Residential
Joinery elements are used to create zones without detracting from the open space.

Confident and compact: Nine Smith Street

A community-minded inner-city development by MA Architects with Neometro refines the apartment typology with clever spatial planning to celebrate small-footprint living.

Residential
The insertion of a curved timber-panelled joinery wall defines the zones within the apartment, conceals original splayed walls and provides storage space. Artwork: unknown artist.

Above the curve: Concord Apartment

This apartment renovation by Retallack Thompson overcomes spatial challenges to add character and charm.

Residential
White tile cladding applied to the new component is reminiscent of the Sydney Opera House as well as the long association that Surry Hills has with the Portuguese community.

Independent 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.

Residential
Urban patterns: Waterloo Street Townhouses

Urban patterns: Waterloo Street Townhouses

DKO architecture

This converted warehouse project responds to increasing housing density with quality spatial thinking. The design of the townhouse insertions respects the original structure’s heritage while adding a new layer of function and detail.

Residential
Curved forms create a space-capsule aesthetic, and the softened edges prevent hips being caught on corners in the narrow space.

‘Future retroism’: Bobhubski

This “1970s Japanese spaceship” home, designed with both playfulness and pragmatism, transports inhabitants to another space and time.

Residential
The mixed-use development brings an unexpected geometry and rhythm to Echlin Street in West End, Townsville.

Fresh-faced: The Hub on Echlin

Architects North has created a curious and elegant self-generated development in the Townsville suburb of West End that was conceived as “a breathe of fresh air.”

Commercial, Residential
Sydney 385 by Smart Design Studio.

Elemental 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, Residential
The plan of the one-hundred-square-metre studio has been subtly reconfigured and new insertions into the space are meticulously finished.

‘Sensuously textural’: Luxe Ten

Maria Danos Architecture has transformed a graphic design studio space into a moody and textural one-bedroom apartment.

Residential
The Woolloomooloo Apartments in Sydney provide a quiet retreat from the city, despite being situated near a motorway and railway.

Noise 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.

Residential
Four new halls of residence have recently been built at Monash University’s outer-suburban Melbourne Clayton campus.

Monash University Halls of Residence

Four new halls of residence, by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, McBride Charles Ryan, and Hayball and Richard Middleton Architects, are shaping the urban environment of the Clayton campus and fostering a sense of community.

Residential
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