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Location - Melbourne
Year completed - 2016
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Comprised of varied shed-like spaces, North Melbourne House is personalized by the texture and colour of everyday objects.

Sheds for sharing: North Melbourne House

Seizing an opportunity to build on an empty neighbouring block, the owners of a worker’s cottage in North Melbourne (with the help of NMBW Architecture Studio) have added a flexible secondary house that will allow them to age in place.

Residential
The composition of stacked volumes protrudes and retracts, articulating a compartmentalized language. The ground floor is predominantly dedicated to commercial use, while the upper levels are residential.

Alluring and bold: Mixed Use House

A multi-generational home and commercial tenancy coexist in St Kilda’s Mixed Use House, designed by Matt Gibson Architecture and Design with DDB Design, to explore and rethink traditional family housing typologies.

Commercial, 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
A striking facade of charcoal-stained timber radically alters the house’s appearance in the streetscape.

Effortless makeover: Balwyn House

Neil Architecture has thoroughly transformed a classic suburban house by an intervention that manages to appear both understated and effortless.

Residential
An inner sanctum offers protection – but not exclusion – from the urban environment.

Open and shut: Perimeter House

Make Architecture’s addition to a two-bedroom house in Abbotsford reflects the area’s industrial aesthetic while working hard to offer sanctuary and suburban amenity.

Residential
A wire-mesh balustrade provides visual and acoustic connection between levels.

Iceberg palace: Halo House

Taking aesthetic cues from Nordic modernism and conceptual inspiration from the Antarctic, this family home by Breathe Architecture eschews polarization in favour of a consistent design language.

Residential
The kitchen and dining area borrow light and fresh air from the adjacent courtyard.

Shadows of heritage: Elgin Street Residence

The cultural heritage of the clients subtly influenced this reworking of a 19th century row house in Melbourne’s Carlton by Sonelo Design Studio.

Residential
A low passage framed by dark-stained timber battens leads from the existing house to the rear extension.

Sensitive yet striking: East Melbourne Terrace

This renovation of a dark terrace house by Wolveridge Architects has resulted in a contemporary, light-filled home with striking timber elements and comfortable connections to nature.

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
Higher Ground is characterized by a series of smaller platforms that wrap around the space, taking the visitor on a journey through six different levels.

Intimate volume: Higher Ground

DesignOffice has teamed up with the owners of famed Melbourne cafes Top Paddock and The Kettle Black to turn a cavernous former power station into a refined and welcoming all-day dining venue in the CBD.

Hospitality, Interiors
The design of Hues Hair uses bold colour and simple geometry to lend the interior a sense of order and unity.

A cut above: Hues Hair

Adriana Hanna

Inspired by the Memphis Group, architect Adriana Hanna uses playful colour and sharp shapes to create a Melbourne hair salon that’s a cut above the rest.

Interiors
The 2016 NGV Architecture Commission by M@ Studio Architects, Haven’t You Always Wanted ...?

Haven’t You Always Wanted …? 2016 NGV Architecture Commission

M@ Studio Architects

The second iteration of the NGV Architecture Commission, Haven’t You Always Wanted …? by M@ Studio Architects, explores dematerialization and the expression of the civic in Melbourne’s future outer suburbs.

Public / cultural
The architects sank the lower level into the ground so as to include a third level while satisfying height restrictions.

Urban opportunism: Little O’Grady Residence

Behind a rebuilt heritage facade, this home by Ha offers ample daylight and a rewarding journey of spaces, from a clever sunken living area to a rooftop terrace with city views.

Residential
The timber screen was used to zone the dining space. The exact placement of the timber arch aligns with the two-toned circle on the back wall.

Mint condition: The Penny Drop

At the base of the new Australian Taxation Office building in Melbourne’s Box Hill, this new cafe by We Are Huntly plays on the concept of “penny dropping.”

Hospitality, Interiors
The site is wedged between a wide suburban street to the south and an alleyway to the north.

A nostalgic angle: Acute House

A compact, but generous home wrapped in cladding salvaged from the small Victorian cottage that was originally on the site.

Residential