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Year completed - 2014
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The Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre, located at Gulkula in Wiwatj (North East Arnhem Land). Architecture is used by the Indigenous clients as a medium to convey oral histories and tell their story.

Revisited: Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre

Build Up Design, Klaus Helms

In North East Arnhem Land, the realization of a cultural centre – led by the Yolngu people – sets an important precedent for the creation of sacred Indigenous architecture.

Public / cultural
The kitchen and living area extend into the garden, making the most of the northern light.

Utterly unpretentious: Marrickville House

This efficient and effective extension by MI Architects makes the most of a fast-track approval process, unpretentious materials and a simple form to meet the clients’ brief and budget.

Residential
The unique roof form of Pirramimma lifts to expose the western face of the building and its upper terrace to the winter sun. Artworks: Bocabajo 1 by Marta Moreu (left); Cast Iron Inversion by James Angus (right).

Mountain retreat: Pirramimma

This Blue Mountains house by Peter Stutchbury Architecture deftly explores the relationship between building and landscape; moments of intensity and quietness, light and shadow, heighten the “real” in the everyday experience.

Residential
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
The design of St Ambrose Primary School includes a variety of carefully considered indoor and outdoor spaces for learning.

Old school ties: St Ambrose

Pat Twohill Designs in association with Twohill and James

In their design for a primary school in far-northern New South Wales, Pat Twohill Designs and Twohill and James retain the look of the weatherboard schoolhouse but take a decisive break from tradition.

Education
The upper pavilion stands above the rocky terrain, while the lower pavilion is embedded in the flatter part of the site.

Joining forces: Split House

A pair of pavilions come together to create a family home that considers privacy, thermal comfort and spatial delight.

Residential
The white timber boards emphasize the sitting room’s verticality, while the brick references the area’s masonry tradition.

Suburban narratives: Central Avenue

This new house by Vokes and Peters employs traditional architectural motifs in unconventional ways, all the while responding to its site, street and city.

Residential
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
The steeply pitched skillion roof turns away from the two-storey western neighbour to greet visitors at the street.

A contemporary angle: Humble House

Coy Yiontis creates a steeply pitched contemporary home for a mature couple to enjoy into their retirement.

Residential
Casba was awarded the Best Mixed Use Building at the World Architecture Festival in 2015, demonstrating an appreciation for street life, the human-scale, homeliness and familiar “old-school” materials.

Life above lifestyle: Casba

Billard Leece Partnership and SJB Architects’ mixed-use project offers Sydney a new model for balancing private comfort and civic neighbourliness.

Residential
Studios 54 is situated on a remnant site within an urban context, with an existing apartment building to its north and a laneway to its south.

Studios 54 by Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Projects

On a 126-square-metre site in suburban Sydney, Hill Thalis’s Studios 54 demonstrates how small sites can be used inventively to make the city richer and more diverse.

Commercial, Residential
The generously proportioned west-facing balconies offer extraordinary views across Fremantle port and the Indian Ocean, while also providing privacy and shade.

Modern trio: Terrace Houses in Fremantle

Combining playfulness, restrained minimalism and respect for the terrace house typology, Blane Brackenridge Architecture has created three “convincing” hillside dwellings in Fremantle, Western Australia.

Residential
The large original house on the Marrickville site has been divided down the middle to create two dwellings with separate entries (Lots 1 and 2).

Urban osmosis: Three Marrickville Houses

David Boyle Architect delivers harmonious triplets on a complex urban site, where once a single house stood.

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 house is a U-shape around a front courtyard hidden behind a modest brick wall.

Sizing up: Marrickville Courtyard House

Located on one of three blocks created in the subdivision of a large corner site, this new house by David Boyle Architect “feels huge but sits on a relatively small site.”

Residential
Views from the house are largely into the two courtyards and to the garden, with sightlines to neighbouring structures restricted. Artwork: Paul Gundry.

Suburban illusion: Laneway House

This new infill house in Brisbane’s New Farm by O’Neill Architecture balances openness with privacy to create a clever and inviting inner-suburban sanctuary.

Residential
The modest scale of the House in Double Bay and the compactness of the plan are compensated for by the generous light well in the living space.

Raising eyebrows: House in Double Bay

Without compromise on quality or invention, this new speculative home by Tribe Studio Architects has an emphasis on spatial interest and an abundance of natural light.

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
The main living space or salon can be opened to views of water at either end – a pool to the north-east and the ocean to the south-west.

The art of minimalist living: Villa Marittima

Experienced like a piece of immersive installation art, this new beachside home by Robin Williams Architect encourages its inhabitants to engage all their senses.

Residential
The sophisticated and layered office makes art and architecture synonymous. Artwork (left to right): Untitled #35 by Bill Henson and Staging Silence 2 (2013) by Hans op de Beeck.

Urban interior: Bresic Whitney

Chenchow Little Architects’ fitout for this real estate agency in Hunters Hill, Sydney departs from suburban conventions to differentiate its brand and culture.

Interiors
The new pavilion has the charm of a child’s drawing of a house. Photograph: Christopher Frederick Jones.

Larger than life: West End Cottage

A careful but confident transformation of a tiny worker’s cottage into a contemporary family home by Vokes and Peters.

Residential
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
The house and pathway are on existing clearings in the dense vegetation, leaving canopy trees intact.

Rainforest journey: Cape Tribulation House

M3 Architecture’s design for this holiday retreat wisely defers to its dense surroundings on the northern Queensland coast.

Residential
The house’s footprint was discovered when the architects identified a place of poor vegetation growth on the coastal site.

Subliminal proto-dwelling: Garden House

Baracco and Wright Architects’ Garden House blurs the boundaries between garden and home while redefining what it means to be minimal.

Residential
The modest setback and an open fence place the front door almost at arm’s length, as if to invite guests in.

Vanishing point: Balmoral House

This house follows Isamu Noguchi’s philosophy that art should “disappear” or become one with its surroundings.

Residential
The home borrows shade and a connection with nature from a park to the corner of the site, on the other side of the private tennis court.

Street appeal: Kensington House

An alteration and addition to a Californian bungalow by Virigina Kerridge Architect that respectfully addresses the streetscape.

Residential
The old vegie patch was reinstated and tripled in size to the north, with a series of elevated timber crates that complement the Kids Pod by Mihaly Slocombe.

Chip off the old block: Kids Pod

Mihaly Slocombe take the cubbyhouse typology to full scale with a self-contained addition to its first project.

Residential
Ashgrove Residence by DM2 Architecture.

Tree hugger: Ashgrove Residence

DM2 Architecture adds a new pavilion to the rear of a humble cottage in Brisbane that embraces a historical significant hoop pine.

Residential
Lush, tropical vegetation is fast enveloping the steel arbour in the Secret Garden.

Lady Cilento Hospital landscapes

For Brisbane’s new Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, Conrad Gargett created an impressive suite of rooftop gardens full of drama and novelty.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural