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Year completed - 2012
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The Wayside Chapel comprises two brick buildings – one new, the other refurbished – flanking a community hub. The brick structures are designed to assimilate into the surrounding neighbourhood context.

Revisited: The Wayside Chapel

An ambitious scheme for a new home for the Wayside, designed by Environa Studio and completed in 2012, led to the salvation of this vital community organization.

Public / cultural
The blackened exterior form is a reworking of the cottage and shed vernacular that dominates the area.

Dual impact: Exploding Shed house

David Weir Architects creates an“energetic” one-bedroom cottage that provides a place to live and a place to work.

Residential
In lieu of a fenced compound, the Marysville police station features a semitransparent facade that engages with the community.

Marysville 16 Hour Police Station

This police station by Kerstin Thompson Architects embodies a domestic and civic conversation.

Public / cultural
While it boasts a chunky, bold form, the house does not intrude on the landscape, but establishes a respectful balance with it.

Rust and peace: Sorting Shed

A country residence channels the rugged beauty and agricultural history of its setting.

Residential
Leather banquettes are a nod the Italian tradition.

Cervo

On Sydney’s Lower North Shore, a deer little Italian restaurant and bar by Those Architects.

Hospitality, Interiors
The long, fully glazed south face of the building.

Dolphin Sands House

A beach house by Rosevear Architects provides a platform from which to appreciate the views.

Residential
Malvern Hill by SJB reads as a series of individual dwellings.

Malvern Hill Apartments

A finely modulated Melbourne apartment complex by SJB offers an alternative in medium-density living.

Residential
Concrete wrapped in polycarbonate refinished in dichroic coating.

National Centre for Synchrotron Science

Bates Smart’s National Centre for Synchrotron Science in Melbourne creates the conditions in which to see.

Commercial
RMIT Design Hub forecourt.

RMIT Design Hub

Sean Godsell Architects’ RMIT Design Hub functions “as both a building and declaration”.

Education, Public / cultural
Howard Place, Bendigo, by Williams Boag Architects.

Howard Place

A lightweight civic structure by Williams Boag Architects is embraced by the Bendigo locals.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The flexible atelier space allows for multiple configurations.

Kings Park Education Centre

Perth’s new environmental teaching centre by Donaldson + Warn for Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority.

Education, Public / cultural
Outside looking in: the studio in an orchard at Officer, Victoria.

Branch Studio

A tiny studio in an orchard in Officer, Victoria, is base camp for Branch Studio Architects.

Commercial
Bars and facilities are pushed to the edge of the foyer space.

Hamer Hall

ARM’s revision of Melbourne’s monumental Hamer Hall, reviewed by Paul Walker for Artichoke.

Interiors
Hamer Hall’s riverside levels are cast as a virtual proscenium, with a casual pattern of drapery in its window shaping that seems pulled aside to reveal the life in the foyers and bars.

Hamer Hall

ARM Architecture makes a range of functional improvements to Melbourne’s Hamer Hall.

Interiors
Swanston Academic Building is a new addition to RMIT University’s collection of buildings along Melbourne’s  Swanston street, which form “a city within a city.”

Swanston Academic Building

Swanston Academic Building by Lyons raises questions larger than architecture says Professor Des Smith.

Education, Public / cultural
A panel behind reception lit with LED in vibrant colour.

The Darling Hotel

An international style defines the Darling Hotel by Cox Richardson and DBI Design for Sydney’s revamped Star City Casino.

Hospitality, Interiors
The suspended roof offers dappled shade by day and an outdoor room by night.

Langtree Mall pavilion

A small civic structure in Mildura by Bellemo & Cat with Hansen Landscape Architects.

Public / cultural
Enter the time tunnel.

Martian Embassy, Sydney

Moby Dick meets the Time Machine at LAVA’s Martian Embassy for the Sydney Story Factory.

Education, Public / cultural
The Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands Discovery Centre is 3 km south-east of Melbourne, adjacent to a fragment of wetland that is now surrounded by sprawling suburbs.

Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands Discovery Centre

On Melbourne’s suburban edge Minifie van Schaik Architects creates a seductive “decoy.”

Public / cultural