Projects

Across regional and urban settings, these sporting pavilions move beyond functional requirements to create spaces for community life to unfold.

In Byron Bay, Occupy Studio reimagines fashion brand Rowie’s headquarters as a welcoming family home, using a fibreglass lantern to flood its communal heart with light.

The diverse, flexible form of a new school in inner Sydney creates both a dynamic environment for students and a welcoming resource for the wider community it serves.

Emerging from an unusually constrained competition process, 205 North Quay achieves a rare sense of spatial and formal continuity across a complex, multi-authored project.

Borrowing its name from a children’s storybook, a modest garden room imbues a well-loved late-1970s home with clarity and generosity.

In Bowral, MAC Design Studio revitalises the Edwardian grandeur of Ardour Milton Park, celebrating its heritage architecture with a contemporary palette inspired by its legendary gardens.

Presenting a new model for living, this family home inverts suburban conventions by burying an elegant plan and precision carpentry under a cascade of planting.

A long-awaited library in Gosford creates a new civic heart for the city and reminds us how a public building can best support the evolving needs of its users.

A careful and cohesive approach reminiscent of art conservation augments a distinctive 1990s home, readying it for the next chapter.

A joyful reimagining of a Federation-era house draws on painterly concepts of composition and colour to achieve a distinctive and delightful home.

Dion Hall reimagines the traditional espresso bar through tactile materiality, elevating the standing coffee ritual in Carlton.

The considered architecture of a new primary school blends educational and ecclesiastical design in a precinct that’s as community-friendly as it is forward-thinking.

A delightfully versatile multigenerational holiday home on Minjerribah employs lightweight pavilions to comfortably accommodate few or many.

Paying tribute to its neighbourhood, where compact cottages meet small industrial buildings, this adaptable and quietly inventive home is designed to shift as family life evolves.

In this extract from Tamsin Johnson’s new book Tamsin Johnson: Contrast, Space, Harmony, published by Rizzoli, Tamsin reflects on designing this two-storey terrace in Paddington for a “fashion wunderkind” client.

The redevelopment of Frankston Hospital – now Peninsula University Hospital – designed by Bates Smart and Architectus, reimagines and reorientates an existing campus, through careful intervention, into a welcoming institution in close dialogue with its place.

Coworking provider The Commons has opened its eleventh Melbourne location, uniquely pairing collaborative office spaces with a fully integrated health club, blending productivity and wellbeing under one roof.

Responding to its coastal setting, this home blends relaxed minimalism with functional flexibility, offering an easygoing space for family life to naturally unfold.

The revitalisation of a century-old cottage on the Gold Coast pays tribute to its history, while responding gracefully to the changing face of its coastal suburb.

Tucked into the steep slopes of Sydney’s Middle Harbour, this multigenerational home reinterprets the region’s industrial past while embracing the natural beauty of the site.

Inspired by coastal modernism, this new residence on the Bellarine Peninsula capitalises on borrowed views to create a calming home that caters for seclusion and sociability.

The redevelopment of a near-70-year-old modernist social housing complex in Hobart strengthens the overall site density while providing a level of amenity through good design that far exceeds the expectations of social housing.

A 1913 Federation Arts & Crafts home is transformed into an atmospheric residence for entertaining, where heritage craftsmanship meets a richly layered modern gothic interior designed for gathering, creativity and celebration.

In transforming a former pub and corner store, Ian Moore Architects has crafted a luminous residence that both repairs and extends the city fabric that it resides within.

In anticipating the future, Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Projects has reimagined the concept of the multideck car park as a daylight-filled civic space ready for adaptive reuse.

Nicknamed “the little big house,” this composed addition to an Adelaide cottage is as equally suited to entertaining as it is to quiet everyday life.

In an era of digital dominance, the new Readings Bookstore at Chadstone reimagines retail as sustainable sanctuary, where craft, community and circular design breathe life into books.

Looking back through the Houses Revisited series, we spotlight a selection of Sydney School homes that embody the movement’s commitment to material honesty, sensitive siting and a deep connection to landscape.

At once subtle and spectacular, this new home spills down its harbourside site in tribute to the coastal landscape and the lessons of the Sydney School.

Given carte blanche in Southbank, Flack Studio distils Melbourne’s effortless eclecticism into Hannah Street Hotel – a layered, atmospheric world where modern nostalgia, surprise and soul collide.