PROJECTS

An undulating brick wall is a proud and protective edge to an exposed suburban site, enfolding a rich and unexpected domestic setting within a cohesive architectural gesture.

Hassell’s new Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology within the University of Melbourne’s innovation precinct brings the faculty into the light and celebrates its profound and ongoing contribution.

Delicate incisions reorganize an interwar home in Melbourne’s south-east, providing clever adaptability and welcome autonomy for its downsizing owner.

Freed from the confines of its Victorian-era order, an end terrace in Melbourne is respectfully reprogrammed to suit contemporary family life.

Faced with renovating a diminutive Victorian cottage in Hawthorn, this architect made the daring choice to abut bathroom and kitchen – with surprising results.

A systematic approach to renovations at this terrace house in Melbourne’s inner-north yields a rational yet flexible design that supports playful family living.

In an ambitious act of co-creation, a diverse group of practices has listened to more than 20,000 students and staff to design a student precinct that encourages connections – between people, disciplines, past and present, inside and out.

By knitting together a new three-storey building and a refurbished, heritage-listed hall in regional Victoria, Kosloff Architecture has designed a valuable asset for the community and the local TAFE.

To reconnect their family to a cherished landscape, the owners of this site requested – and contributed to – a generous yet efficient home that makes the most of the surrounding landscape and local materials .

A singular house in the sky, this apartment pays tribute to the gilded optimism of the building’s 1970s architecture and its broader urban context, asserting a sophisticated vision of domestic life in the city.

“Better not bigger” was the tenet for the reimagining of this Melbourne home, with a design that subverts the typical terrace plan and prompts a recalibration of what one needs to live well.

A design collaboration across international borders has given birth to “an abstraction of the typical Australian farmhouse”: a cinematic building that thoughtfully responds to its bucolic setting on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

Private yet permeable, defensive yet decorative, this lively new addition on a constrained Melbourne site both enriches family life and animates the neighbourhood.

The garden fence is reimagined as an inhabitable structure that collects a studio, a shed and a pool into one expressive, ribbon-like form, offering increased amenity and independence for multigenerational living.

Built to foster community in and around its residences, this precinct in Melbourne’s inner-north comprises six apartment buildings with diverse designs united by shared values.

Grecian stone, ocean colours and fluted profiles recall faded Athenian glamour in this reworking of a heritage home in Melbourne’s Little Greece precinct, transforming a dark, unremarkable series of rooms into a dreamlike spatial sequence.

On a Melbourne laneway, an ambitious addition has transformed a small, dark terrace into a five-storey family home, offering a prototype for vertical living in the inner-city suburbs.

In repurposing the derelict site of an inner-Melbourne technical college, this project seeks to embed arts in the community, provide affordable studio space in an otherwise unaffordable area and create public amenity that is welcoming to all.

Unostentatious but meticulously considered, this Melbourne home is an evolved response to an all-too-familiar brief: juggling heritage constraints and limited space with the demands of family life.

With a small budget, Ware Architects has merged gallery No Vacancy’s hospitality and exhibition offerings through a range of raw galvanized steel instruments, which speak to the utilitarian nature of the basement space.

This new house on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula is designed for many or few, accommodating the ebb and flow of visitors and withstanding the weathering of its coastal locale.

A new approach to this apartment in Melbourne’s inner north supports homeowner agency – and family wellbeing – with customizable plans that suit multiple ways of life.

Melbourne-based Ellul Architecture’s fastidious reworking of a studio apartment creates opportunities for space and sociability in small-footprint living.

With precision and nuance, Kerstin Thompson Architects and BVN have come together to create a benchmark workplace and urban project that celebrates and re-energizes the iconic Gothic Bank Complex in Melbourne’s CBD.

A remarkable brief to reconfigure two top-floor apartments into an adaptable, multigenerational home is met with precision and artistic flair, combatting flat, rectilinear design with colour, composition and light.

Composed and confident, this new residence by John Wardle Architects in regional Victoria distils the fundamentals of the rural farmhouse into a richly detailed home.

In a gold rush town in north-east Victoria, a new home on a prominent site refuses to defer to the colonial past, demonstrating an alternative, unapologetically contemporary way of responding to the landscape.

Immersed in a preserved bushland setting in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, this calm and composed new home inspires a restful pace for family life.

Designed by Robin Boyd in 1962 to replace an earlier house that had been destroyed by bushfire, Wright House II united a robust, fire-resistant material palette with an expansive spatial language. The lovingly preserved house endures as one of Boyd’s most compelling designs.

Beside a busy Melbourne intersection, an understated commemorative space honours the lives of victim survivors, looks to the future with hope and invites incidental engagement.