PROJECTS

Strutt Studios reimagines dentist clinic aesthetics at Sage Space in Sydney.

This retail fitout by Ewert Leaf for a Melbourne-based travel goods specialist transports guests with rich, tactile elements that evoke memories of Antipodean holidays.

Branch Studio Architects and Marcellin College seek to enhance student wellbeing through a series of empathetic interiors that re-interpret the Marist Brothers’ Catholic tradition.

Known for its unfussy hospitality, this beloved venue in south-west Perth has undergone a thoughtful and textural redesign by Rezen Studio that welcomes regulars and newcomers alike.

The inventive refurbishment of an existing performance venue extends the community’s opportunities and opens up the growing suburb’s civic heart.

Breathe Architecture new sustainable fitouts for ANZ are welcoming for staff and visitors, respectful toward the planet and, thanks to thoughtfully implemented biophilic design, literally green.

Ornate Victorian-era scroll motifs give way to folded planes of Victorian ash in this Carlton home by Sum, where the decision to have fewer bedrooms has contributed to a spacious, calm environment for living.

In Noosa Heads, a tired suburban house is resourcefully remade into a robust but welcoming retreat that emphasizes the simple pleasures of a holiday home by the coast.

A terrace house that needed ‘serious attention’ has been transformed into a comfortable city home for a retired farming couple, who picked up the renovation where the previous owners left off.

By treating an existing, undistinguished building as raw material, the architect has recognized the structure’s inherent value and acted with an ethos of sustainability and “a deliberate and joyful irreverence” in equipping it for the city’s changing needs.

Two architectural practices continue their ongoing partnership in this rejuvenation of the “Opera House of the Outback,” showing admiration and respect for the original 1980s structure while enriching the visitor experience and delivering conceptually rigorous work to the region.

Despite its small size, awkward angles and compromised condition, the entrance lobby at a 1970s Perth apartment block has been retrofitted so thoughtfully as to alter the perception of the entire building.

After a major 1960s downscaling and a series of ad hoc renovations, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin’s Capitol Theatre has been re-engineered to beguile audiences for another hundred years.

Perth’s new Intercontinental hotel, designed by Woods Bagot and Chada, is the second reincarnation of a 1970s office block and proof that the finer things get better with age.

London-based architecture firm Universal Design Studio with Mather Architecture has restored and redeveloped the historic Canberra Centre into a sophisticated urban retail precinct.

A carefully considered rebuilding of a coastal semidetached home by Jason Gibney Design Workshop.

A terrace house renovation by Adrian Amore Architects with a stair that functions as much more than just vertical circulation.

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.

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

A small postwar home with a large backyard has been reworked to create a much longer and more flexible house, a courtyard now wrapping around its central living spaces.

Young design practice Larritt-Evans has capitalized on the concrete materiality of an existing tenancy in Melbourne, crafting an impressive new face for property developer Wolfdene.

A renovation and extension to a 1950s clinker brick house by Architects EAT.

A $290 million urban renewal initiative aimed at revitalizing central Dandenong.

Hames Sharley designs a student lounge for the Joondalup campus in Perth.

Owen and Vokes and Peters rework an historic Brisbane home.

A deft inner-Sydney theatre conversion by Hill Thalis.

A Sydney institution enlivened by Melbourne’s Pascale Gomes-McNabb.