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Location - Melbourne
Year completed - 2014
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The lower level of glazing is transparent to the light well and the upper level is frosted for privacy.

Upward spiral: Fitzroy Terrace

A terrace house renovation by Adrian Amore Architects with a stair that functions as much more than just vertical circulation.

Residential
Strong sight lines allow vignettes of activity to be reciprocally glimpsed between the zones.

‘Transformational architecture’: Clemenger BBDO Melbourne

Finding inspiration from constraint, Powell and Glenn has taken a modest budget and turned the Melbourne offices of creative agency Clemenger BBDO into a perfect integration of stillness and energy.

Interiors
A new garden pavilion provides a guestroom, music room, laundry, garage and extra storage, while also creating a visually appealing backdrop to the backyard.

Urban multi-tasker: Backyard Studio

Adapting an inner-city site for a young family with a steady stream of interstate guests called for a standalone addition that accommodates a plethora of different activities.

Residential
Industrial in aesthetic and sitting between a corner shop and a suburban bungalow, this new house has no setback from its West Brunswick street.

Hard and soft: Bridge House 2

The tough exterior of this new house by Delia Teschendorff Architecture gives way to a “soft centre,” protected from the hustle and bustle of a busy West Brunswick street.

Residential
The dining room features A display of burnished copper pots and other culinary artefacts.

A French reincarnation: L’Hotel Gitan

Inspired by the site’s art deco heritage, SJB Interiors has refitted this Melbourne bistro and dining room to give it French character in keeping with the menu on offer.

Interiors
Essentially a concrete frame to a wall of glass, the large upper level flares outwards like an elegant aperture for observing the world.

Layer by layer: Concrete House

Made of timber, stone and steel, and topped with concrete, this rectilinear house by Matt Gibson Architecture and Design is the result of exceptional integration and interaction between layers.

Residential
Social butterfly: Local House

Social butterfly: Local House

This addition to a Californian bungalow by Make Architecture creates an active connection with the St Kilda community.

Residential
The Tower House is a series of small, interconnected structures that wrap around a central courtyard.

It takes a village: Tower House

Appearing “more medieval village than inner-city extension,” a collection of timber shingle-clad towers by Andrew Maynard Architects have been added to the site of an existing mid-century bungalow.

Residential
ARM’s work at Victoria’s Shrine of Remembrance, completed over two stages, involved the addition of four sunken courtyards that provide ingress to Visitor and Education Centres located beneath the Shrine.

Buried history: Galleries of Remembrance

ARM Architecture’s final additions to the Shrine of Remembrance offer a contemporary foil to the memorial’s classicism.

Public / cultural
The attica pop-up restaurant on the second floor featured a stunning canopy of coppiced branches and roses in light bulbs, designed by Joost Bakker.

Floral tribute: Lexus Design Pavillion

Mim Design take inspiration from the spring blooms of Flemington to create a temporary marquee at the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Hospitality, Interiors
The leafy-green garden view is echoed in the kitchen, where a section of wall is clad with white tiles hand-painted in a geometric green pattern by one of the owners, artist Tai Snaith. Artwork: Cherry Hood.

A house of art and play: Doll’s House

Driven by ideas of art and play as well as tactics for sustainability, this striking extension by BKK Architects is a “well-made doll’s house” with an uplifting sense of possibility.

Residential
A generous, north-facing verandah makes a monumental gesture of welcome.

Grand civic ambitions: Library at the Dock

With this public library in Melbourne’s Docklands, Clare Design shows how a small, community-minded building can help instil a still-young urban precinct with a sense of place.

Public / cultural
The existing house, an Edwardian weatherboard, has been remodelled as a private family wing.

Playful finesse: Westgarth House

An addition to a suburban Melbourne house by Kennedy Nolan that is far from ordinary.

Residential
The shopping centre’s planning includes visible and consistent locations of vertical circulation.

Inner city agora: Emporium Melbourne

Emporium Melbourne is in some ways a model of classic retail planning, but in other ways it turns this model on its head.

Commercial, Interiors
The Middle Schools complex at Tintern Schools in Ringwood East, Melbourne is shaped by a careful approach to landscape and site-scale planning.

Lines in the land: Tintern Schools Middle Schools

In response to this Victorian school’s pedagogical model for parallel learning, Architectus realizes a confident pair of buildings that counters formal separation with social connection.