AUSTRALIA

Wood Marsh creates rammed-earth Peninsula House on Australian coast

February 2, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Wood Marsh has used curving walls of charred timber and rammed earth to create this home south of Melbourne, which is designed to echo Australia’s “windswept” coastline. Called Peninsula House, the dwelling is located near the town of Flinders, overlooking the Bass Strait and surrounded by farmland. Instead of designing an orthogonal volume,

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Edition Office tops New South Wales home with “bird’s mouth” cutout roof

February 1, 2024 Shona Jackson 0

Architecture studio Edition Office has created a three-bedroom house with a cutout roof and fibre-cement cladding in Mossy Point, Australia. Elevated on parallel blockwork walls within a peaceful, wooded area, the home comprises a two-storey structure with a dramatic aperture in the roofline that forms a sheltered outdoor dining space. Clad in simple grey fibre

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Winwood McKenzie hides “urban oasis” behind Melbourne cottage’s heritage facade

February 1, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Australian studio Winwood McKenzie has extended a former worker’s cottage in Northcote, Melbourne to create a house arranged around two courtyard gardens. Named Quarry House, the home is located alongside the former Northcote Quarry and Brickworks – now the All Nations Park – and references the site’s industrial past with a palette of exposed brick and

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Sam Crawford Architects tops Sydney home renovation with “garden oasis”

January 18, 2024 Starr Charles 0

A private roof terrace enclosed by greenery features in Hidden Garden House, a Sydney home reconfigured by Australian studio Sam Crawford Architects. Situated within a conservation zone, the home has been updated by Sam Crawford Architects to brighten its dark interior and transform it into an urban “sanctuary”. Alterations to the 198-square-metre home’s interior are

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YSG brings boutique-hotel feel to family home in Sydney

January 17, 2024 Natasha Levy 0

Interiors studio YSG has upgraded a home in Sydney’s Mosman suburb to feature “lavish yet tranquil” interiors that are more akin to those of a luxury hotel. The three-storey house previously had drab grey walls and awkwardly placed partitions but now features more coherently connected rooms finished in a sumptuous mix of materials. “Our clients

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Bright yellow balconies enliven Melbourne apartment block by Austin Maynard Architects

December 29, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A “mountainous” zigzag roofline and bright yellow balconies define the ParkLife apartment block in the Brunswick neighbourhood of Melbourne, which has been completed by local studio Austin Maynard Architects. The block is located within Nightingale Village, a collection of six apartment buildings by different architects for housing not-for-profit Nightingale Housing that all demonstrate its development

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John Ellway updates Brisbane cottage with staggered extension and gardens

December 23, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A series of small gardens designed to “encourage play and movement” breaks up Hopscotch House, a cottage in Brisbane with an extension by local studio John Ellway. Situated on a low-rise estate in the suburb of Woolloongabba, the project leaves the original building and its relationship to the street largely untouched, instead extending backwards to fill

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Fraser & Partners unveils design for world’s tallest hybrid timber residential tower in Perth

December 19, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Australian architecture studio Fraser & Partners has revealed its design for a nearly 190-metre-tall residential tower named C6 in Perth, Australia, describing it as a “new benchmark in height for mass timber”. Fraser & Partners says C6, which will be 189.1 metres tall, will become the world’s tallest hybrid timber housing once it is completed,

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Australia bans engineered stone due to silicosis risk

December 14, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Australia has become the first country in the world to ban engineered stone, following rising cases of silicosis among workers who handle the material. The ban was agreed at a meeting of Australian federal and state workplace ministers on Wednesday, and will come into place across the country from 1 July 2024. The ban targets

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ARM Architecture covers Geelong Arts Centre in swooping concrete curtains

December 13, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Australian studio ARM Architecture has completed the renovation of the Geelong Arts Centre in Victoria, Australia, adding a theatrical draping facade to its exterior. The building, which is the largest regional arts centre in the country, contains two theatres connected by large public foyers. Geelong Arts Centre was originally constructed in 1981 in the brutalist

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