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A lush palette of cinnamons, muted greens and mellow neutrals complements the colourful luggage on offer.

July QV by Ewert Leaf

This retail fitout by Ewert Leaf for a Melbourne-based travel goods specialist transports guests with rich, tactile elements that evoke memories of Antipodean holidays.

Commercial
A large central courtyard joins the two buildings behind their separate facades.

Goodhope by Those Architects

A reliance on first principles and a nuanced understanding of the site enabled Those Architects to transform two buildings into a conjoined space to host diverse creative practices.

Commercial
Teal carpets and full-height glazing are equal parts serene and stimulating.

Activision Blizzard by Studio Tate

A colourful, playful office space in Melbourne caters to the needs of gaming designers.

Commercial
Locally made, bright-orange Crumpler fabric is stretched around steel scaffolding to define the interior.

Crumpler Melbourne

Wowowa Architecture has stepped outside its standard practice to design the flagship store for this “deeply Melbourne” bag brand.

Commercial
By architecture practice Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Less is designed to be a non-commercial public space that users can activate as they see fit.

Dairy Road Masterplan

Molonglo Group, David Chipperfield Architects (residential), Assemble (UK) (industrious), Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture, Craig Tan Architects, Oculus Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Oculus Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, David Chipperfield Architects, Assemble (UK) with JAM and Ell Ell Architects, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture

On a site east of Canberra and adjacent to wetlands, a collaborative team whose process inverts the “master” plan paradigm is gradually designing a diverse neighbourhood in a restored landscape.

Commercial, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The distinctive sawtooth roof of the new standalone block brings natural light into the block’s studios and medical practices.

5 Easy Street by DFJ Architects

DFJ Architects

Sitting in “productive tension” with the development’s original ambitions, the fourth stage of Habitat demonstrates the flexibility of its masterplan.

Commercial, Residential
Travertine is a key part of the material palette: weighty benches offer space for product testing, and satisfyingly solid offcuts cover the ground plane.

Aesop Collins Street by Clare Cousins Architects

Nestled in a historic building in Melbourne’s CBD, this retail fitout by Clare Cousins Architects balances architectural heritage with Aesop’s signature, contemporary aesthetic.

Commercial, Interiors
In its approach, the architect looked at the spatial qualities of the Melbourne CBD and other vibrant global cities.

Escala by Six Degrees

A carefully choreographed mixed-use development disrupts the existing pattern in Melbourne’s Docklands by introducing fine-grain detail to a large-scale project.

Commercial
Turpentine timber salvaged from the original building forms the boathouse’s open-batten facade.

St George Sailing Club by Jon Jacka Architects

Just south of central Sydney, a sailing club has been designed to serve as a valuable community facility that is practical and hospitable, with simple geometric forms that “tap social memory.”

Commercial
The fire and rescue station manages to be both contemporary and respectful of the town’s “heritage city” moniker.

QFES North Coast Region Headquarters and Maryborough Fire and Rescue Station

An elegant new community facility in regional Queensland meets strict operational requirements while respecting its heritage neighbour and dramatically reducing construction carbon emissions.

Commercial
The design, with Venetian-inspired courtyards and flamboyant neo-gothic flourishes, transforms the precinct into a city within a city.

Queen and Collins by Kerstin Thompson Architects and BVN

With precision and nuance, Kerstin Thompson Architects and BVN have come together to create a benchmark workplace and urban project that celebrates and re-energizes the iconic Gothic Bank Complex in Melbourne’s CBD.

Commercial
The tower is part of Sydney’s Quay Quarter – a new, integrated, mixed- use precinct containing offices, apartments, retail, restaurants and public space.

Upcycling the highrise: Quay Quarter Tower

Sydney’s Quay Quarter Tower shows that with planning foresight, architectural ingenuity and engineering rigour, even the most complex of existing buildings can be transformed to extend its life.

Commercial, Residential
At ground floor, an informal meeting space with timber pods encourages collaboration.

Industrious detailing: Alfred Stables

Architects EAT has reinvented a 150-year-old three-storey factory at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital into a dynamic and adaptive workplace for 150 administrative staff, all while celebrating the existing building fabric.

Commercial
CH2’s yellow wind turbines make a strong visual impact but struggle with uneven performance and costly repairs.

Retrospective: CH2 (2006)

Design Inc in collaboration with City of Melbourne

Melbourne’s Council House 2 has achieved celebrity “green building” status in the 16 years since its completion. On a recent site visit with Rob Adams, who oversaw the project for the City of Melbourne, Stephen Choi considered what the profession might learn from CH2’s still-evolving sustainability measures.

Commercial
A draped linen curtain arc can be closed for instant privacy for solo work, or drawn open to produce an informal meeting space or reception.

Humanizing the office: Johnson Partners

YSG

In this Sydney office for a boutique consulting firm, YSG has replaced the sobriety of conventional corporate highrise offices with sculptural details and bold, expressive gestures.

Commercial, Interiors
Brickworks merges local intent with commercial scale, bringing sustainable design to daily suburban life.

A sustainable, integrated neighbourhood: Burwood Brickworks

Suburban, replicable, sustainable: Burwood Brickworks furthers the conversation by returning to first principles to deliver smart resource management – and resident empowerment.

Commercial
To reduce the amount of required material, Breathe specified signage painted onto the FSC-certified timber furniture.

Values-driven design: ANZ Breathe

Breathe Architecture new sustainable fitouts for ANZ are welcoming for staff and visitors, respectful toward the planet and, thanks to thoughtfully implemented biophilic design, literally green.

Commercial
The collaborators have taken advantage of the overhead railway line to create a lush, shady sanctuary in the middle of subtropical Brisbane.

Tactical urbanism: Fish Lane

Richards & Spence, Aria Property Group

A neglected post-industrial area of central Brisbane is transformed into a vibrant arts precinct through a collaborative private delivery model with a nuanced approach at both the strategic and the fine-grain scale.

Commercial, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Within the lounge area, two semi-enclosed work pods surrounded by circular three-quarter-height walls provide quiet and private study spaces.

‘Ugly ducking’ no more: Monash University Building 28

Tasked with adapting an “ugly duckling” university facility in Melbourne into a new complex for a mathematics, earth atmospheres and environments department, Kennedy Nolan has created a design expression that responds to the existing building’s austere, functional modernism.

Commercial
The shelves in between the desks accommodate a collection of white study models.

Self expression: Smart Design Studio office

The new office of Smart Design Studio, in an industrial heritage conservation precinct in Sydney, is a sustainable, sculptural building purpose-built for the studio’s ambitions and practice.

Commercial
The gallery of Phoenix Central Park, designed by John Wardle Architects.

Stately pleasure dome: The interiors of Phoenix Central Park

In inner-city Sydney, John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers have respectively designed a gallery and performance space, each with its own language of materials and forms, that together result in a remarkable partnership of architecture and artistic fields.

Commercial
Treatment pods are enveloped in diaphanous curtains, providing privacy.

Elegant pragmatism: Light Years Skin Studio

Maher Design

Sculptural formations of joinery and a trio of individual treatment pods within shrouds of sheer curtaining distinguish the unique interior of Light Years Skin Studio on Queensland’s Gold Coast, designed by Maher Design.

Commercial
The canopy – a steel plate sheet that directs water into hollow columns – folds up to sidle against the bricks of the original structure.

On the eatin’ track: The Signal Box Pavilion

Derive Architecture and Design

In Newcastle, Derive Architecture and Design has reworked a railway building and transformed it into a spatially and historically important restaurant.

Commercial
The eight-storey bridge adds back some of the floor space lost from a relatively open ground plane. Within the bridge are residential facilities, including a pool.

Impressive form-making: Collins Arch

Woods Bagot and Shop Architects

Collins Arch – a collaborative new tower, plaza and park has the potential to shift the city’s twenty-first-century centre of gravity.

Commercial
Bold colour and strong graphic overlays are offset with softer elements, creating a series of diverse and energetic spaces.

Empowerment and aspiration: Fox Fit

An energized female fitness facility in inner Melbourne by Mim Design merges brand and experience to create a vibrant space that punches well above its weight, inspiring a better way of living.

Commercial
A Danpalon roof is inserted within the existing shell, allowing the shop to be bathed in natural light by day and to glow by night.

Laboratory in a ruin: Grown Alchemist

Herbert and Mason with Grown Alchemist

In its design for a flagship skincare store behind a dilapidated terrace house in Melbourne’s Carlton, Herbert and Mason in collaboration with Grown Alchemist contrasts the pristine with the industrial to enhance both qualities.

Commercial
The main cutting space is articulated by a continuous series of sensuous arches along three walls.

Ceremonial sequence: Joey Scandizzo Salon

Kennon

In a 19th-century Italianate building in Melbourne, architecture studio Kennon has redesigned a recognized hair salon into the perfect backdrop for “me time.”

Commercial
Smart Design Studio collaborated with the University of Technology Sydney to achieve the parametric vaults.

Parametric pursuit: Stokes 14

In an inner-city Sydney suburb of urban renewal, Smart Design Studio has made the most of the opportunity to re-imagine its own workspace, experimenting with materials and geometries to create a beautiful place in which to work and live.

Commercial
In keeping with the Incu visual language, materials such as timber, brick and terracotta allow the clothing to be drawn to the foreground.

‘A better way’: Incu HQ and Outlet

Akin Atelier

Tasked with creating a retail space, head office and warehouse for contemporary fashion brand Incu, Akin Atelier has transformed an old mechanic’s workshop in Sydney into a space that embodies fashion, design and expert workmanship.

Commercial, Interiors
Hair is coloured, cut and styled in the 20 chairs through the centre of the heritage building.

Cut and colour: Headcase Hair

Studio Snoop has given this longstanding hair salon in Sydney’s Paddington a fresh new look – one that reflects the owners’ journeys to fashion shows and photo shoots all over the world.

Commercial