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The old vegie patch was reinstated and tripled in size to the north, with a series of elevated timber crates that complement the Kids Pod by Mihaly Slocombe.

Chip off the old block: Kids Pod

Mihaly Slocombe take the cubbyhouse typology to full scale with a self-contained addition to its first project.

Residential
Ashgrove Residence by DM2 Architecture.

Tree hugger: Ashgrove Residence

DM2 Architecture adds a new pavilion to the rear of a humble cottage in Brisbane that embraces a historical significant hoop pine.

Residential
Lush, tropical vegetation is fast enveloping the steel arbour in the Secret Garden.

Lady Cilento Hospital landscapes

For Brisbane’s new Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, Conrad Gargett created an impressive suite of rooftop gardens full of drama and novelty.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Social butterfly: Local House

Social butterfly: Local House

This addition to a Californian bungalow by Make Architecture creates an active connection with the St Kilda community.

Residential
The Tower House is a series of small, interconnected structures that wrap around a central courtyard.

It takes a village: Tower House

Appearing “more medieval village than inner-city extension,” a collection of timber shingle-clad towers by Andrew Maynard Architects have been added to the site of an existing mid-century bungalow.

Residential
ARM’s work at Victoria’s Shrine of Remembrance, completed over two stages, involved the addition of four sunken courtyards that provide ingress to Visitor and Education Centres located beneath the Shrine.

Buried history: Galleries of Remembrance

ARM Architecture’s final additions to the Shrine of Remembrance offer a contemporary foil to the memorial’s classicism.

Public / cultural
The projecting balconies of the Upper House by Jackson Clements Burrows add dynamism and depth to the building envelope.

Boldly petite: Upper House

Upper House in Melbourne by Jackson Clements Burrows makes the case for compact city living with a bold urban form.

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 Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital occupies a prominent site in South Bank, Brisbane and serves as an urban counterpoint to the CBD.

Urban vigour: Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital

Brisbane’s new children’s hospital by Conrad Gargett Lyons is a powerful work of city making.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Supported by slender circular steel posts, the crisp white and fine-edged double gables are lofty and open to the street.

The right fit: Christian Street House

James Russell Architect appease anxious city planners with a new house that contextually fits the social and relaxed a subtropical way of life.

Residential
Backlit, frosted glass and clear glass shelves position the glasses front and centre.

Wonder room: Optiko

Stephen Cameron Architecture has designed an optical store that resembles a cabinet of curiosities.

Interiors
The attica pop-up restaurant on the second floor featured a stunning canopy of coppiced branches and roses in light bulbs, designed by Joost Bakker.

Floral tribute: Lexus Design Pavillion

Mim Design take inspiration from the spring blooms of Flemington to create a temporary marquee at the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Hospitality, Interiors
An industrial palette of materials creates a tactile and visually rich interior.

Master of disguise: South Melbourne Terrace

The deceptively closed exterior of this renovated terrace by Wellard Architects disguises a private, bright and comfortable home.

Residential
Neometro’s signature concrete ceiling adds a sense of tactility; the use of natural materials such as stone and timber “satisfy the senses.” Artwork: Sally Ross, La panthére, 2012.

Flat-out rethinking: Walsh Street Apartment

A thoughtful that transforms the idea of multi-residential living into something much more house-like.

Residential
The leafy-green garden view is echoed in the kitchen, where a section of wall is clad with white tiles hand-painted in a geometric green pattern by one of the owners, artist Tai Snaith. Artwork: Cherry Hood.

A house of art and play: Doll’s House

Driven by ideas of art and play as well as tactics for sustainability, this striking extension by BKK Architects is a “well-made doll’s house” with an uplifting sense of possibility.

Residential
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
The studio employs a tower typology seen elsewhere in Max Pritchard’s work.

Towering ideas: Tree Top Studio

Max Pritchard Architect

Max Pritchard revisits his own house after twenty-five years to create a distinctive satellite building.

Residential
A generous, north-facing verandah makes a monumental gesture of welcome.

Grand civic ambitions: Library at the Dock

With this public library in Melbourne’s Docklands, Clare Design shows how a small, community-minded building can help instil a still-young urban precinct with a sense of place.

Public / cultural
The existing house, an Edwardian weatherboard, has been remodelled as a private family wing.

Playful finesse: Westgarth House

An addition to a suburban Melbourne house by Kennedy Nolan that is far from ordinary.

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 shopping centre’s planning includes visible and consistent locations of vertical circulation.

Inner city agora: Emporium Melbourne

Emporium Melbourne is in some ways a model of classic retail planning, but in other ways it turns this model on its head.

Commercial, 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
The Middle Schools complex at Tintern Schools in Ringwood East, Melbourne is shaped by a careful approach to landscape and site-scale planning.

Lines in the land: Tintern Schools Middle Schools

In response to this Victorian school’s pedagogical model for parallel learning, Architectus realizes a confident pair of buildings that counters formal separation with social connection.

The enclosed outdoor room provides the owner with a new kitchen and deck at the rear of the house.

Life on the edge: Shutter House

Baber Studio’s addition to a Queenslander allows the occupants to enjoy views from the very edge.

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
The new north facade of the Bendigo Library Redevelopment, a project which reinvigorates the Victorian city’s existing library, built in 1982–84 by Robinson Loo Wyss & Schneider.

Refined bones: Bendigo Library Redevelopment

MGS Architects’ revitalization project results in a contemporary landmark that makes a worthy contribution to the urban fabric of Bendigo.

Public / cultural
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