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Made from the same stone as the benchtops, the large dining table doubles as a prep surface.

Brunswick Apartment by Murray Barker and Esther Stewart

Murray Barker

Skilfully expressing a Melbourne apartment’s distinctive 1960s style with a contemporary redesign, Murray Barker and Esther Stewart deftly select materials to make big statements that suit this small space.

Residential
Nightingale 1 includes a “summer deck” and a “winter deck,” enabling residents to use the shared rooftop space year-round.

Nightingale Housing five years on

Jacqui Alexander traces the evolution of Nightingale Housing and reflects on two of the built developments.

Residential
A series of abstract cut-outs punctures the concrete facade – a touch of Scarpa-esque playfulness that helps avoid any sense of bureaucratic severity.

Civic presence: Housing Choices Australia Dandenong

This community project is a testament to the genuine value and design innovation that architects can bring regardless of income, status or tenure.

Residential
The apartment’s spacious floor plan and focus on high quality details imbue it with a sense of timelessness. Artwork: Kayleigh Hetdon.

A different kind of apartment building: Sussex

With an emphasis on design quality and detailing, this home by Powell and Glenn and Mim Design fuses the classic and contemporary to reimagine apartment living as generous and bespoke.

Interiors, Residential
At night when the apartments are lit from within, the rhythm of life inside is projected on the building’s facade. Photograph: Rory Gardiner.

A neighbourly narrative: North Fitzroy by Milieu

Fieldwork, Flack Studio

This modern take on the classic walk-up apartment – by Fieldwork and Flack Studio – is arranged around a verdant central courtyard, designed to foster community.

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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Swanston Square’s eastern and southern facades create the black-and-white image of William Barak while the northern and western facades have a multicoloured pattern reminiscent of a topographic map.

A marred portrait: Swanston Square

The facade of ARM Architecture’s “Portrait” apartment tower in Melbourne is a worthy civic-minded gesture but, behind it, a dehumanizing financial logic is at play.

Residential
Located in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, The Commons is a twenty-four unit residential development conceived as a vertical community.

Better together: The Commons

An apartment building takes a communal approach to bring liveable, affordable housing back to the inner suburbs.

Residential
The spare colour palette and pared-back materials allow the dramatic forms of the architecture to come to the fore.

Loft Apartment

An apartment of sweeping curves and deft geometry, designed by Adrian Amore Architects.

Residential
The apartment plan is flexible and multifunctional. Artworks (L–R): David Band, Cookin, 2013 (linen tea towel, framed); Esther Stewart, Full Circle, 2013.

Smith Street Apartment

A Paris-inspired loft-style apartment added to a period mercantile building in Melbourne.

Interiors, Residential
A colourful, glazed, third-floor projection breaks the flush wall.

Kyme Place Rooming House

A unique Port Melbourne apartment complex for the homeless by MGS Architects.

Residential
A colourful array of pop-out balconies on the north and east elevations.

Atherton Gardens Social Housing

A Melbourne public housing project by McCabe Architects and Bird de la Coeur Architects.

Residential
The apartment interiors have ample natural light from the floor-to-ceiling double glazing.

George Apartments

This Melbourne development represents how good design can make apartment living even more appealing.

Residential
The grassed courtyard on the residential level of the factory.

Sunrise Confectioners Factory

A former factory forms the shell of this residence, housed above a boutique office space.

Interiors, Residential