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This tessellated box addition to Melbourne home was rejected by zinc installers

Although buildings like the RMIT Design Hub and the Melbourne Recital Centre often steal the show in Victoria, the culture of bold design is also evident in the countryside and suburbs.

Project | 22/11/2016

Test-bed for healthcare model: Mornington Centre Stage 2 by Billard Leece Partnership

Can a certain building material or design diagram be evidenced to show a positive effect on humans? Can we use this to our benefit when designing in health and aged care environments?

Project | 04/08/2015

With nature’s flow: Szychowski Residence by Adhami Pender Architecture curves for light and twists with landscape

The Szychowski residence brings a new language to its landscape.

Project | 30/07/2015

OS House by Ben Walker Architects maximises full potential of Canberra greenfield site

For Ben Walker Architects, a new two-storey home in Crace was the perfect blank page to set new standards for residential design within a greenfields setting.

Project | 01/07/2015

Beauty and the beast: Cargo Apartments marry brick warehouse with luxurious fitout

PBD Architects inject luxury apartments into existing brick warehouse.

Project | 12/06/2015

The Alpha by Tony Owen Partners mimics nature’s structures with hexagonal pod facade

The hexagonal pod-like façade of this building was crafted according to the client’s brief of developing a design that would be “unique and iconic” within the Sydney city fringe.

Project | 10/06/2015

Floating multi-coloured glass tower at NewLife church by NBRS + Partners unifies new NSW community

Oran Park Town is a new community 60km south west of Sydney that has invited a new church into its heart to 'sit among the people'.

Project | 12/05/2015

Giving 'ugly' Fremantle Residence a makeover: Ecohabit Homes and Breadbox Interiors

What do you do when a house that is built to last, is also outdated and ‘ugly’?

Project | 07/05/2015

First look: Durbach Block Jaggers and BVN design rippling facade for new UTS Science and Graduate School of Health

The new Science and Graduate School of Health Building, unveiled today, has a few tricks up its sleeve if you care to take a closer look.

Project | 24/04/2015

Local House by MAKE Architecture contrasts timber screens with off-form concrete

Inspired by how its owners live and enjoy life, the home is conceived more like a favourite local café than a house, and features a gable-like element to the rear of the building.

Project | 23/04/2015

What’s behind that copper screen? Goddard Building Rooftop Expansion by Conrad Gargett

Challenges included a strict conservation plan, a builder bankruptcy and what seems like a conflicting brief—blend a new cutting edge university facility with a 1960’s monolithic sandstone structure.

Project | 17/04/2015

New Western Australia (WA) student housing by Allen Jack+Cottier is two-faced

A new six storey building on the edge of Edith Cowan University’s Joondalup Campus just north of Perth is part of an 'old city wall' that separates the campus and the bushland.

Project | 01/04/2015