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Year completed - 2013
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A series of timber and brick steps negotiate the change in level between house and yard.

First House: Bellevue Terrace Alterations and Additions by Philip Stejskal Architecture

Completed in 2013, this diminutive yet delightful addition to a Fremantle cottage launched Philip Stejskal Architecture from “relative obscurity” to the national stage, and continues today as the practice’s quiet ambassador.

Residential
The addition responds to the original house, designed in 1993 by Beverley Garlick Architects.

First House: Southern Highlands House

For Andrew Benn, the invitation to design a one-room addition – not much larger than a garden shed – was the launching pad for his fledgling practice. Here, he reflects on the legacy of that first commission.

Residential
The project grew into a full masterplan that included future business plans for becoming makers of goats’ cheese.

First House: Main Ridge Farmhouse

Designed while he was living in London, Justin Noxon’s first house was for his brother and sister-in-law as stage one of a masterplan for Main Ridge Dairy. Now, fourteen years later, Justin reflects on this project and the lessons it taught him.

Residential
The plan folds around a central “naturalistic” courtyard in response to existing trees and the proximity of neighbours.

Into the fold: Jule House

Jule House by Claire Humphreys and Kevin O’Brien Architects delicately references a family’s past while offering a setting for contemporary living.

Residential
Unlike many Sydney homes, Garden House turns inward and is wrapped around a central courtyard.

Green at heart: Garden House

A lush green courtyard is the focus of this new Sydney home by Pearse Architects, with almost every room connected to the central planted outdoor space.

Residential
The Tudor Centre is part of an ongoing series of refurbishments at Trinity Grammar School in Kew, Melbourne.

Richard and Elizabeth Tudor Centre for Contemporary Learning

McIntyre Partnership’s expressive learning centre at Trinity Grammar in Melbourne serves as a chronicle of the architecture of Peter McIntyre.

Education
A low strip window in the kitchen offers views to the soft, green plantings along the side boundaries.

Greening up: Martin House

BG Architecture artfully unifies a Californian bungalow with its lush suburban garden through the skilful manipulation of sightlines.

Residential
The L-shaped cafe and hub space encourages staff collaboration.

Ideas exchange: CHE Proximity

Designed by Bates Smart, this new Melbourne workplace for creative agency CHE Proximity is textured and personable, encouraging staff to interact and share ideas.

Interiors
Vertical sun blades, in a fun palette of foliage-inspired colours, draw the garden into the fabric of the building.

Picture perfect: Blue House

A retreat by Neeson Murcutt Architects that is in picturesque harmony with its coastal bushland setting.

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 new verandah, bathroom, deck and steps create a natural path to the garden.

Ebb and flow: Bellevue Terrace

Interlocking spaces connect house and garden in this addition to an 1890s Fremantle home by Philip Stejskal Architecture.

Residential
The new part of the house is bold, minimal and full of light, with a joyful expression of materials.

Polished gem: Jewel House

Karen Abernethy Architects transforms a Victorian terrace into a light-filled suite for two.

Residential
In deference to the architecture of the existing building, the extension of the bedroom wing, seen here at right, continues the pitch of the old roof.

Sleight unseen: Sorrento house

The architect’s hand is imperceptible in this reworking of a twenty-year-old beach house.

Residential
A central courtyard joins the old and new parts of the house and forms a primary activity zone for the family.

The lantern, the brick and the courtyard: Three Parts House

A renovation and extension to a 1950s clinker brick house by Architects EAT.

Residential
The lecture theatre has a hemicycle plan, which allows seating and sight lines to encourage a high level of physical interaction and visual connection.

Enlightened learning: William Macmahon Ball Theatre

Designed by Architectus, this lecture theatre at the University of Melbourne has the exquisite quality of natural light.

Interiors
A bulging wall of tall, black columns surrounds the Mandala Room.

Under the dome: La Trobe Chancellery

DesignInc’s refurbishment of La Trobe University’s chancellery features a dramatic boardroom beneath the building’s original dome.

Interiors
The warm timber and ply that define the interior of this weekender complement its relaxed, beachside setting.

Ground swell: Cabin Two

A cottage addition by Maddison Architects takes its cues from the topography of the site.

Residential
Lyons’ 41X in Melbourne – a hybrid public–commercial building that serves as a new public face for the Australian Institute of Architects.

When “little becomes big”: 41X

The Melbourne home of the Australian Institute of Architects speaks of the integral role of the architecture profession in the future of Australia’s cities.

Commercial
The Desert House opens to the west, where it confronts the surreal scale of the West MacDonnell Ranges.

Range rover: Desert House

Dunn and Hillam Architects has made an architectural virtue of climatic constraint at this new house in the desert.

The Bunker houses two companies on the upper level. On entering the building company's side of the office, visitors are greeted with a palette of concrete and plywood.

Blackwood Street Bunker

Dubbed ‘The Bunker,’ this shared workplace gives new purpose to a building “only an architect could love.”

Interiors
Triangular geometries and concrete walls retain layers of rocky shale.

Banking biodiversity: The Australian Plantbank Garden

A new plant conservation laboratory presents an infrastructure that is critical to the task of banking Australia’s diverse flora.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Stepping down a steep and narrow site, the Left Over Space House has been inserted into the remnant space between old cottage, heritage-listed dance hall, setbacks and easements.

Left Over Space House

Vallance Architects, Cox Rayner Architects

Architects Casey and Rebekah Vallance have devotedly turned a parcel of discarded land into a poetic response to suburban infill.

Residential
The new pavilion stands apart from the existing ironclad pair, which serve as the main living and sleeping quarters.

Tiny beauty: Southern Highlands House

An elegant and sophisticated living pavilion in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales by Benn and Penna Architecture.

Residential
PlantBank viewed from the north, with the administration wing on the left and the research wing on the right.

Australian PlantBank

BVN Donovan Hill gives architectural voice to a botanical ark in Mount Annan, New South Wales.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The floating fitout barely touches the heritage-listed building shell.

Ansarada Office

Those Architects create a new work/life balance in the global office of a young tech company.

Commercial, Interiors
The South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) by Woods Bagot.

The SAHMRI: Performance driven

SAHMRI by Woods Bagot is transforming the city of Adelaide with sustainable design.

Commercial, Health, Public / cultural
King deluxe suite at 1888 Hotel, Pyrmont NSW.

1888 Hotel, Sydney

Shed Architects

Shed Architects and Space Control Design turn a Pyrmont woolshed into a boutique hotel.

Hospitality, Interiors
The Glebe Town Hall’s restored Victorian Free Classical facade.

Glebe Town Hall

After an extensive conservation program, the 130-year-old building reopened in March 2013.

Public / cultural
The elevated “processional” staircase to the entry concourse.

La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science

Lyons’ new building for La Trobe University brings students and researchers together.

Education