AUSTRALIA

Spaceagency converts former Weeties warehouse into family home

December 6, 2023 Kate Donaldson 0

Australian studio Spaceagency has consolidated three apartments in a heritage-listed cereal factory into a single-family home in North Fremantle, Western Australia. Spaceagency aimed to emphasise the original volume and industrial character of the 1930s brick warehouse, which was once used to make the breakfast cereal Weeties, while creating a light and open interior. To achieve

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Studio Edwards adopts zero-waste strategy for Today Design office in Melbourne

December 3, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

Melbourne-based Studio Edwards has completed a workspace for creative agency Today Design using recycled and off-the-shelf materials that could be reused in the future. Located on the 12th floor of an office block in Melbourne’s Collingwood neighbourhood, the Today Design Workspace features partition walls made from OSB (oriented strand board) and translucent corrugated fibreglass. Furniture

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John Ellway staggers series of indoor-outdoor spaces at Cascade House

November 24, 2023 Katie Last 0

Australian architect John Ellway has renovated an early 20th-century cottage in Queensland into an open family home intended to encourage indoor-outdoor living. Named Cascade House, the residence in Paddington required minimal renovations but was overhauled by Ellway to create more playful spaces for the family’s three children. It has been updated with a staggered interior

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Cox Architecture celebrates heritage features of its own Sydney studio

November 23, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A brick, steel and timber structure is left exposed in this office interior in Sydney, which local firm Cox Architecture has revamped to house its own studio. Cox Architecture removed previous alterations to the structure, which occupies five floors of the heritage-listed Metcalfe Bond Stores warehouse in Tallawoladah, to highlight its original features and complement

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Nic Brunsdon creates inflatable sphere for National Gallery of Victoria

November 22, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Australian architect Nic Brunsdon has created a giant sphere that inflates and deflates throughout the day for this year’s National Gallery of Victoria Architecture Commission in Melbourne. Called (This is) Air, the project is designed by Perth-based Brunsdon in collaboration with technology company Eness to mimic the natural rhythm of breathing. The spherical structure stands

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Tadao Ando’s MPavilion captured by Rory Gardiner in Melbourne

November 21, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Following its unveiling in Australia last week, photographer Rory Gardiner has captured this year’s MPavilion, which was designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando. Defined by Ando’s signature use of exposed concrete, it is the 10th edition of the MPavilion that is installed each year in Melbourne. Gardiner’s photos capture the geometric design of

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Tadao Ando unveils MPavilion based on “pure geometry”

November 14, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando has designed an aluminium-disc-topped pavilion as the 10th MPavilion in Melbourne, Australia. Created as the Japanese architect’s first-ever project in Australia, the concrete pavilion was designed as a space to reflect on the surrounding Queen Victoria Gardens. “The design for the MPavilion began with a desire to find a

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Terroir revamps 1960s Tasmanian office “using no new resources at all”

November 14, 2023 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Terroir has turned an abandoned 1960s office into its own workspace in Hobart, Australia, reusing the existing structure and timber framework. Terroir designed the office as “a small experiment that challenges the paradox of sustainable architecture”, adding as little as possible – with the only new elements being electrical cabling for power and

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Akin Atelier houses Gallery Shop at Sydney Modern in “translucent bubble”

November 9, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Curved resin walls define this retail space, which architecture studio Akin Atelier has created for the Sydney Modern extension at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Designed by Akin Atelier with surfboard designer Hayden Cox, the Gallery Shop is located in the entrance pavilion of the gallery that was recently completed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning

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Reclaimed materials form “playful and textured” facade of Sydney house

November 7, 2023 Katie Last 0

A staggered arrangement of windows and patterned sections of brickwork form the facade of 19 Waterloo Street, a house that Australian studio SJB has added to a small site in Sydney. The building, which also contains a shop and self-contained flat, was designed by SJB to replace a damaged structure on the compact site in the

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