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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 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
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
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
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
The striking timber facade facing the backyard takes inspiration from the recognizable work of Louis Kahn.

Confidence and conviction: Rainworth Hill House

Engaging with a traditional Queenslander in a contemporary way, this home is a progression of spaces, with intersecting sightlines to its neighbourhood at one end.

Residential
A large opening cut into the wall opens up the kitchen to the pool, garden and sky.

Rippling reflections: Toowong Lighthouse

Alcorn Middleton Architecture

Grecian forms and classic colours were used to invoke the inhabitants’ family ties in this clever, playful extension to a 1930s Californian bungalow in Brisbane.

Residential
The kitchen, designed as a “piece of furniture,” uses blackwood in both veneer and solid form. Artwork (L–R): Fred Fowler, Monica Rohan.

Robust yet refined: Bulimba Hill House

Hive Architecture

The renovation of a dilapidated 1920s Queenslander develops a sympathetic dialogue between the original house and its contemporary elements.

Residential
An openable wall draws light and air from the outdoor room into living spaces.

Light and airy: Clayfield Fern House

Paul Butterworth Architect

Voluminous yet resourceful, this lightweight addition to a Queenslander is a pragmatic solution that filters sunlight and buffers noise while also serving as a delightfully adaptable outdoor room.

Residential
The house is arranged in a U-shape, transplanting the backyard into the centre of the site.

Shelter and connect: Evelyn

In Brisbane’s Paddington, an old timber cottage is thoughtfully and skilfully recast as a courtyard house that responds to site, climate and the desire for familial connection.

Residential
Access to and from the ferry terminals is enhanced by clear crossing points and visual clues along the riverside bike path, to minimize conflict between ferry passengers and cyclists.

Brisbane’s flood-resilient ferry terminals

Eight ferry terminals have been stitched to their Brisbane River sites in a generous, flood-resilient scheme that elevates the public transit experience.

Landscape / urban
The collaborators have taken advantage of the overhead railway line to create a lush, shady sanctuary in the middle of subtropical Brisbane.

Tactical urbanism: Fish Lane

Richards & Spence, Aria Property Group

A neglected post-industrial area of central Brisbane is transformed into a vibrant arts precinct through a collaborative private delivery model with a nuanced approach at both the strategic and the fine-grain scale.

Commercial, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Wrapped in charred timber, the enigmatic form of the addition does not overwhelm the house’s street presence.

‘Magnetism of the landscape’: Poinciana House

Taking root beneath a timber Queensland cottage, this carefully tuned addition knits an experience of the immediate and distant landscape into the daily patterns of domestic life.

Residential
A series of new spaces are perched on top of the existing house, their gradual climb informed by the terrain.

Enriched with possibilities: Ashgrove Hillside House

Capitalizing on an elevated site with enviable prospect, this cleverly planned addition to a Brisbane home culminates in a surprising and spatially rich treetop eyrie.

Residential
Living spaces in the sub-street-level addition open directly onto the back garden.

Enhancing neighbourliness: Toowong Renovation

A new addition to a much-loved Brisbane cottage unearths the latent possibilities of a sloping suburban site, interlacing house and garden while preserving the neighbourliness of its laneway locale.

Residential
The original worker’s cottage has been lifted and an independent studio added beneath.

Suburban manifesto: 3 house

Channon Architects and Burton Architects

A single-storey worker’s cottage in Brisbane is transformed into three autonomous and adaptable units, making a compelling case for greater density in the suburbs.

Residential
Above a gentle slope, the house presents a solid elevation to the west, offering protection from sun and wind.

Land of memories: The Farmhouse

Smith Architects

Referencing the landscape and vivid family memories, a richly detailed farm house on a pastoral site outside Brisbane provides a grounding platform for ageing in place.

Residential
Living spaces occupy the ground level, expressed as an undercroft that opens to the front and rear gardens. Artwork: Deb Mansfield.

Ebb and flow: Attic-Undercroft House

Baber Studio and Marc and Co

An open kitchen in this Brisbane home supports informal interaction, providing a tactile, imaginative and flexible space for a young family.

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The richness of the kitchen’s spotted gum finishes makes it a warm, inviting space for the everyday activities of family life. Artwork: Jason Wing.

The rejection of ‘more’: St Johns Wood Residence

Local timber and bronzed mirror wrap the pared-back spaces of this refreshed Queenslander, which draws in its leafy suburban surrounds.

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The home’s kitchen island is a piece of bespoke furniture that forms the scheme’s focal point. Artwork: Caroline Numina.

Retro revival: Torbreck Apartment Renovation

Taking cues from mid-century modern design, this apartment in Brisbane’s classic Torbreck tower combines period character with contemporary functionality.

Three House by John Ellway Architect.

Breezy lyricism: Three House

The apparent simplicity of this small, three-pavilion home in Brisbane’s inner suburbs, inspired by the clients’ love of cooking and South-East Asian architecture, is the outcome of a rigorous plan that creates a sum greater than its parts.

Residential
The alteration and addition to an existing cottage features a lower level that is permeable to floodwater.

Flood-proof and connected to nature: Beck Street

On a Brisbane site burdened by flooding, this residence negotiates and acquiesces to the cycles of nature, balancing a utilitarian undercroft that will endure the flood with a richly layered and refined home.

Residential
The new pavilion addition to the century-old cottage houses private, social and service spaces over four stepped levels.

A framework for landscape: Paddington House

The artisanal sensibility of an owner-builder, a steeply sloping site and a desire for a tactile material palette set the direction for this refreshing addition to a humble Brisbane worker’s cottage.

Residential
The family can retreat from the sun into the undercroft, or move out towards the pool to enjoy the sun in its golden hour.

All round entertainer: Wooloowin House

Brought to ground via the introduction of a robust kitchen and living space, this reimagined Queenslander is ideal for entertaining.

Residential
A continuous landscape folds down the site, transitioning from courtyard to sheltered undercroft and pool terrace.

Garden centrepiece: Hillside House

On an elevated but steeply sloping site in inner-suburban Brisbane, this new dual-aspect house knits together interior and landscape, striking a balance between traditional building character and contemporary sensibilities.

Residential
Custom bullnosed joinery delineates spatial boundaries and lifts stored items, making them easier to access. Artwork: Sebastian Helling

The pleasure of introversion: Walan Apartment

Alcorn Middleton Architecture

Curvaceous forms combine with warm-toned custom joinery and thoughtful transitions in this delightful adaptation of an open-plan Brisbane apartment.

Residential
Connections between the house and the world beyond are carefully curated. Artwork: Sandra Okalyi.

A finely crafted bunker: Mt Coot-Tha House

An intimate knowledge of both the steep site and the inhabitants shaped the design of a connected family refuge in a eucalypt forest on the outskirts of Brisbane.

Residential
The living spaces are edged by a deep, timber bench that subtly connects the interior to the gently undulating site.

Revisited: Wilson Beach House

John Railton

Wilson Beach House on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast offers an enduring example of elegant and expressive Australian design.

Residential