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‘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, ResidentialThe 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, ResidentialTall ambitions: Short Lane
As Sydney pursued a public conversation about brutalist architecture, a new building in Surry Hills was making its mark.
ResidentialA jewel among trees: Whitlam Place
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.
ResidentialBox of tricks: The Bae Tas
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, ResidentialHomeliness over expediency: Peel by Milieu
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.
ResidentialFirst 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.
ResidentialA 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.
ResidentialSimple 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.
ResidentialSmall 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.
ResidentialSocial 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.
ResidentialCowper 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‘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.
ResidentialHome 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.
ResidentialAll-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.
Playfully accessible: Frenches Interior
Sibling Architecture strikes a good balance between function and delight in this accessible home office in inner-city Melbourne.
InteriorsRefreshingly 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.
ResidentialHighly 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.
ResidentialCleveland 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.
ResidentialConfident 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.
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.
ResidentialUrban patterns: Waterloo Street Townhouses
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‘Future retroism’: Bobhubski
This “1970s Japanese spaceship” home, designed with both playfulness and pragmatism, transports inhabitants to another space and time.
ResidentialFresh-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, 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, Residential‘Sensuously textural’: Luxe Ten
Maria Danos Architecture has transformed a graphic design studio space into a moody and textural one-bedroom apartment.
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.
ResidentialMonash 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.
ResidentialArt 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.
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