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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 / urbanNew into old: Hawthorn House
Victorian and modern, home and garden, communal and private: a clearly articulated design by Kennedy Nolan brings balance to a multifaceted house in Hawthorn.
ResidentialIndustrious detailing: Alfred Stables
Architects EAT has reinvented a 150-year-old three-storey factory at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital into a dynamic and adaptive workplace for 150 administrative staff, all while celebrating the existing building fabric.
CommercialA sustainable, integrated neighbourhood: Burwood Brickworks
Suburban, replicable, sustainable: Burwood Brickworks furthers the conversation by returning to first principles to deliver smart resource management – and resident empowerment.
CommercialCourtyard retreat: East Fremantle House
“Addition by subtraction” was the approach taken in the redesign of this Fremantle cottage, which pairs crisp interiors with light-filled courtyard gardens.
ResidentialDesigning housing with ‘dignity’: Studio Apartments
This apartment building transcends its “boarding house” classification with its rigorous planning, light-filled studios and generous communal space.
ResidentialRobust yet refined: Bulimba Hill House
The renovation of a dilapidated 1920s Queenslander develops a sympathetic dialogue between the original house and its contemporary elements.
ResidentialHues of the harbour: Balmoral Blue House
The carefully curated material palette for this Sydney home captures the essence of ocean and sky through the combination of textures and tones.
ResidentialSpotlight: Building for bushfire
Built in the bush, this collection of architect-designed houses responds to rigorous bushfire safety standards with scrutiny and creativity, exploring ways of living safely and sustainably in the unforgiving Australian landscape.
Residential‘Sumptuously nostalgic’: Dune House
A passion for food, art and the Western Australian coast inspired the transformation of this 1960s house into a retreat that values history and the clever use of space.
ResidentialDesign immemorial: The Nicholson Galleries, Chau Chak Wing Museum
At the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum, the new Nicholson Galleries, designed by Studio Plus Three, respects and celebrates the largest collection of antiquities in the Southern Hemisphere.
Public / cultural‘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.
ResidentialHouse of longevity: K House
Elegant and unpretentious, this new home in Kiama is at once a sanctuary and a fortress, a robust home braced to endure the often volatile climatic patterns of its clifftop location.
ResidentialVerdant sanctuary: Earl Parade Residence
In coastal Brisbane, a new house orients family life around a verdant courtyard sanctuary, posing an unexpected response to the conventions of suburban housing.
ResidentialArchitect’s mews: Fitzroy Bridge House
A Victorian terrace conversion in one of Melbourne’s oldest suburbs manages the opposing needs for privacy and openness with ingenuity and surprise.
ResidentialIntrospective sanctuary: Queens Park House
Entirely surrounded by neighbouring properties, a new house built within the walls of a former warehouse in Sydney is a minimalist and introspective family home.
ResidentialPositioning the past: Orient St House
This striking renovation of a South Fremantle house boldly expresses the site’s architectural imprints, giving structure to the transformation from the ground up.
ResidentialEmbracing the elements: Las Palmas
Fluidity between interior and exterior realms is embraced in the kitchen and bathrooms of this home with a modernist past.
ResidentialPlayful and dynamic: James Cook University Central Plaza
At JCU’s Townsville campus, a creative collective has come together to produce an academic and social hub amplified by the seamless integration of art and architecture.
Public / culturalEnriched 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.
ResidentialLessons in colour: Ravenswood Senior Learning Centre
Designed by BVN, this new addition to Ravenswood School for Girls complements and reflects the site’s history and features a striking patina copper facade that is both classic and contemporary.
EducationCurating a view: Mosman Minka
A respectful reimagining of a Federation-era house in the Sydney suburbs draws inspiration from Japanese architecture and celebrates a cohesive and vibrant family life.
ResidentialConfident and composed: House K
Balancing boldness and restraint, this small-scale addition to a family home in the Melbourne suburbs is a confidently composed riff on the cellular order of the original house.
ResidentialCoopworth by FMD Architects
A new farmhouse on a sheep farm on Tasmania’s Bruny Island is at once humble and refined, offering a contemporary response to life in a rural landscape.
ResidentialEnhancing 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‘A gift to the neighbourhood’: Milkbar House
In inner-suburban Melbourne, the built legacy of a former milk bar has been transformed into a calm family home in which spaces are zoned for practicality and for mood.
ResidentialSelf expression: Smart Design Studio office
The new office of Smart Design Studio, in an industrial heritage conservation precinct in Sydney, is a sustainable, sculptural building purpose-built for the studio’s ambitions and practice.
CommercialA potent lesson in small-scale, sustainable housing: Vivarium
Modest and mindful yet formally expressive, this revitalized Melbourne cottage intertwines house with landscape to create a spatially generous family home in harmony with the environment.
ResidentialA perfect perspective: Lindfield House
On a long, narrow site on Sydney’s Upper North Shore, the design for a suite of garden rooms plays on scale to complement the proportions of the large, ethereal back garden.
ResidentialSuburban manifesto: 3 house
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.
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