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The precise detailing that produces the concrete weave illusion required the design team to spend considerable time on site.

University of Queensland Cricket Club Maintenance Shed

Behind an apparently simple, low-budget yet beautiful building lies a rigorous design process that demonstrates the value of collaborative on-site engagement, fresh approaches to standard materials, and a flexible attitude to changing circumstances.

The kitchen and dining area can be opened on two sides to garden and courtyard.

Niwa House by John Ellway

A clever and nimble adaptation to the humble Queensland worker’s cottage learns from the verandah, enabling its occupants to live on the edges of house, garden and neighbourhood.

Residential
Carefully planned playgrounds can be key urban infrastructure that serves the whole community.

Bradbury Park Play Scape by Alcorn Middleton

Alcorn Middleton Architecture

The agility of its small practice enabled Alcorn Middleton to assemble a collaborative design team to win a competition for a local playground; the outcome is an experientially rich piece of active urban infrastructure for the whole community.

Public / cultural
The roofline was maintained and modified for better solar performance. Artwork: Anita West.

The Cottage by Justin Humphrey Architects

Preferring elaboration over eradication, this adaptation of a 1970s house disrupts pervading Gold Coast attitudes toward older housing and revels in its suburban context.

Residential
Y3 Garden by Dan Young Landscape Architect with Donovan Hill.

Y3 Garden by Dan Young Landscape Architect with Donovan Hill

This artfully composed outdoor room reconsiders the central courtyard of a seminal Queensland home, providing a dog-proof filter between the house and the street.

Landscape / urban
The ubiquitous backyard pool is reconsidered as an elevated outdoor room for retreat and recreation.

James Garden Pavilion by UME Architecture

Set in the subtropical verdure of Brisbane’s New Farm, this outdoor room is an ornamental frame of blockwork and foliage that contributes to an elevated, extroverted domestic life.

Landscape / urban
The design of the new house preserves the lush landscape setting that first attracted the clients.

River Hearth House by Arcke

Arcke

Rebuffing the temptation of the singular view, this new house evokes memories of the site’s past occupation to craft a place for living and making on the Brisbane River.

Residential
Honeydew by Sparks Architects.

First House: Honeydew by Sparks Architects

In the design of their own home on the Sunshine Coast, Dan and Margo Sparks relished the chance to investigate sustainable design and construction. Dan looks back on the lessons they learnt about efficient, small-scale living.

Residential
The fire and rescue station manages to be both contemporary and respectful of the town’s “heritage city” moniker.

QFES North Coast Region Headquarters and Maryborough Fire and Rescue Station

An elegant new community facility in regional Queensland meets strict operational requirements while respecting its heritage neighbour and dramatically reducing construction carbon emissions.

Commercial
Designed for entertaining one or two people, the ply-clad kitchen is the home’s epicentre.
Artworks: Christine Nakamarra Curtis (top), Vynka Hallam.

Paperbark Pod by Bark Architects

Bark Architects, Northshore Building Approvals

Emblemizing an ambition to build small but better, this contemporary beach shack on the Sunshine Coast sustains a life lived outdoors.

Residential
A new living pavilion occupies the previously underutilized backyard. Artworks: Lewis Miller (top), Lucie de Moyencourt (bottom left), Pip Spiro (bottom right).

Sydney House by Cavill Architects

A contemporary yet complementary addition to a 1950s house in New Farm is a tribute to the unsung history of brick in Brisbane’s residential architecture.

Residential
Spring Hill House by Myers Ellyett

Spring Hill House by Myers Ellyett

Robust and refined, this extensive reworking of a timber-and-tin cottage in Brisbane’s Spring Hill offers one busy family a calming backdrop to life outdoors.

Residential
Non-structural walls were removed, opening up the apartment’s formerly cellular floor plan.

Oxlade by J.AR Office

A minimalist approach to a 1960s apartment renovation pares back extraneous elements and, through the process of subtraction, generously rewards its owners.

Residential
The washroom is entered through a stainless aperture. Inside, clients are enveloped in moody grey and tonal lighting.

The Disco by J.AR Office

In Brisbane, emerging studio J.AR Office has created a hair salon where stainless steel joinery, cool lighting and polished concrete evoke the spatial qualities of a slick nightclub experience.

Interiors
An existing Queenslander was relocated and two new houses were built, effectively tripling the density of the site.

Hawthorne Siblings by Refresh Design

Two micro-lot houses in Brisbane are the companions to an existing Queenslander in this considered solution to suburban densification, which pairs the best qualities of traditional detached housing with the convenience of inner-city living.

Residential
Protected by a distinctive roof, an open threshold connects the college with the larger Brisbane knowledge corridor.

Brisbane South State Secondary College by BVN

Grand in scale yet responsive to its context, this addition to Brisbane’s “knowledge corridor” embodies a layered narrative of connections to neighbours, to Country and to community.

Education
Revisited: State Library of Queensland

Revisited: State Library of Queensland

The State Library of Queensland has become one of Australia’s most cherished public living rooms. We asked several people with different connections to the library to reflect on their experiences of the building and its spaces.

Public / cultural
New Farm Neighbourhood Centre by Vokes and Peters with Zuzana and Nicholas

New Farm Neighbourhood Centre by Vokes and Peters with Zuzana and Nicholas

Vokes and Peters with Zuzana and Nicholas

With its alterations and additions to an inner-suburban Brisbane Queenslander, a local design team created spaces that work together like an ensemble cast to encourage human habitation and celebrate the community’s daily routines.

Public / cultural
Timber battens with varying gaps admit light into the outdoor room.

First House: Kieron Gait Architects

For Kieron Gait, this modest renovation in the Brisbane suburbs was a ‘spare-time labour of love.’ Completed in 2008 by Kieron and his partner Wei Shun Lee, it was both their own home and the unintentional start to their practice.

Residential
Unlike the structure it has replaced, the new pavilion is permeable, preserving sightlines and ease of movement.

Riverside Green by Hassell

Ostensibly a simple sequence of spaces, Riverside Green is a skilfully designed facility in Brisbane’s South Bank Parklands that is adaptable enough to allow the public to curate its own urban experience.

Public / cultural
A large, covered deck functions as a central outdoor room that connects public and private rooms.

Moonshine by Brit Andresen Architect

Brit Andresen Architect

On Minjerribah, an architect’s keen knowledge of the island setting distils an immersive experience of nature, inspiring a house that is at once architecturally rigorous and environmentally sensitive.

Residential
Sliding, stacking doors and casement panels allow the house to be open to light and breezes.

Hopscotch House by John Ellway Architect

This Brisbane house by John Ellway Architect is inspired by the simple joy of a children’s game.

Residential
Additions unfold around an outdoor room, framed by a soaring steel portal.

Green House by Steendijk

Striking a balance between old and new, this architect’s own home reinvents the traditional Queenslander with confidence and precision, achieving elegance and openness in a compact plan.

Residential
Robust materials were selected to withstand Noosa’s subtropical beach climate, including sudden downpours.

Holiday mode: Hastings Park Apartment

Overlooking the main beach in Queensland’s Noosa, this house captures that relaxed, beach holiday feeling.

Residential
The house adopts the form and scale of neighbouring homes, but is set apart by details such as the aluminium screen.

Less house, more life: Spring Hill House

A Brisbane family of five disrupts the conventions of the suburban family home, instead pursuing a ‘city change’ that offers a compelling formula for less house, more life.

Residential
The building’s glass facade recognizes both the sandstone of the university’s Great Court and the chemical engineering processes explored inside.

Andrew N. Liveris Building, The University of Queensland

At the University of Queensland, two design teams have interwoven narrative, history and a vision for the future to craft a building that reflects its faculty’s culture of open collaboration and provides a hub for the St Lucia campus.

Education
Local gidgee stone is the building’s primary material, a design nod to the land art movement begun in the Northern Hemisphere.

‘Ingeniously demure’: Muttaburrasaurus Interpretation Centre

In a tiny Central Queensland town, an elliptical rampart structure built from local stone celebrates a 100-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton and creates a distinguished landmark for palaeontological tourism in the region.

Public / cultural
York by Smith Architects

One for all: York

Smith Architects

Function is key for this family of four, and their reimagined Queenslander is at once sophisticated and relaxed.

Residential
Two living pavilions bookend an outdoor terrace, enhancing the links between home, garden and the existing pool.

Instructive reimagining: Pinjarra Hills House

Careful and concise, this addition resolves the problems of an unremarkable 1970s brick home in Brisbane, thoughtfully replanning it to support relaxed family living attuned to its subtropical locale.

Residential
Solid blackbutt timber and stainless steel benches ground the kitchen with sleek yet sturdy style. Artworks (L–R): Graham Bligh, Willy Tjungurrayi.

A mini metropolis: Live Work Share House

Three spaces, ten occupants and one flexible plan: Bligh Graham Architects’ Live Work Share House is a multi-use prototype where everyone can feel at home.

Residential