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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 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
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 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
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
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 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 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
Occupying a long, thin site adjacent to UTS’s Alumni Green, the floor plan of the Science and Health Building bulges in and out to admit winter sun onto the lawn.

Rule bender: UTS Science and Health Building

In their design of the UTS Science and Health building, Durbach Block Jaggers and BVN have defied the rules set out in BVN’s own UTS masterplan.

Education
The Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at UTS, designed by Gehry Partners was conceived as a cluster of treehouses.

Thick skin: Dr Chau Chak Wing building

Gehry Partners, LLP, Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke

While critics have laid into Frank Gehry’s UTS Business School for being image-conscious, Jennifer Calzini finds a building more than meets the eye.

Education
The Beaux-Arts revivalist-style building at 50 Martin Place has been revitalized by Johnson Pilton Walker for Macquarie Group.

Jewel in the crown: 50 Martin Place

Johnson Pilton Walker revives a monumental building in one of Sydney’s most significant civic spaces.

Commercial
Central to the plan of the Courtyard House is the opening and wrapping of all spaces around gardens and courtyards.

Playing to type: Courtyard House

This delightful reinterpretation of a traditional terrace house has built-in flexibility, allowing it to adapt and change to the evolving needs of the family.

Residential
Taking the form of a barcode, aluminium screens in three finish tones enclose public areas.

The total package: Australia Post

Carr Design Group re-design both the architecture and the interiors of Australia Post’s Sydney HQ, totally transforming it.

Interiors
The architect rejected a car spot, retaining a large frangipani tree at the front instead.

Street life: Alexandria Courtyard House

This new Sydney terrace by Matthew Pullinger Architect challenges conventions and plays with traditions, while engaging seriously with the street and community life.

Residential
An indoor landscape unfolds beneath the pitched roofs and steel trusses of the warehouse.

Imagination at play: Camperdown Childcare

A childcare centre that is all about learning through play – a philosophy that not only applies to the youngsters but also informed the design process.

Education, Interiors
MUSE provides students with a range of spaces that can be used for group learning or individual contemplation.

Agitated space: MUSE

Woods Bagot use evocative and angular spaces to provoke creativity within the student hub at Macquarie University.

Education, Interiors
Wallace Wurth and the adjacent Lowy Cancer Research Centre command the north-eastern edge of the UNSW campus.

Wallace Wurth Redevelopment

Lahznimmo Architects and Wilson Architects interlace new and existing to produce a cohesive learning environment for the faculty of medicine at UNSW.

Education
Tamarama kiosk along the southern cliff aligns to the surfers’ boardwalk to the beach.

Tamarama Kiosk

Lahznimmo Architects, Waverley Council Recreation & Community

A pavilion by Lahznimmo Architects brings the glamour back to Tamarama beach in Sydney.

Hospitality, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural