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Design: Ian Barker Gardens. The front garden is traditional in layout and contains bluestone paving and a soft, romantic perennial planting palette, perfectly complementing the architecture of the heritage house.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. 185-metre tower building: Mandarin Oriental, Melbourne will contain 196 guestrooms and suites. There will also be 148 Residences on the tower’s upper floors. The bar has a landscaped roof terrace.
Design: DX Architects. The Blairgowrie Beach House on the Mornington Peninsula retained and altered the rear proportion of the existing building and expanded the dwelling forward on a steeply sloped site to accommodate additional living and sleeping areas.
Architects: KUD. The St. Joseph project is a luxury residential development situated in Abbottsford, Victoria. Due to its historical significance the site has become part of the cultural landscape within the area, demanding a highly responsive and respectful design outcome.
Design: Rara Architecture. Perched – like a sparrow. Perched is a light extension at the rear of an inner city semi-detached Edwardian house that curves above your head.
Mission by Rara Architecture to reinstate the old Clifton Hill home’s glory through highlighting it’s simplistic characteristics and its overall form. The architects stripped it right back to a neutral state
Architects: Hindley & Co. The relationship of the house, studio and garden needed to be harmonised to all three’s mutual benefit. Ceilings were raised, views were framed, spaces were decluttered and simplified. All made way for the black and white drama that ensued.
Design: Cottee Parker Architects. The Upper West Side project is a precinct in itself, a vertical suburb. In a prominent location at the edge of the city, the sculptural presence of its towers is analogous to sentinels guarding the city’s centre.
Design: ZWEI Interiors Architecture. Working within the context of an existing CBD building, the design strips back the built layers and exposes the site’s history and amplifies this to create narrative and connection within the interior space.
Design: DKO Architecture. Award-winning student accommodation provider, The Student Housing Company, has announced exciting international expansion plans, with its first Australian development to open in Melbourne in July 2018.
Architects: Woods Bagot. With a focus on collaboration and individuality, the building provides students with technology-rich, interactive spaces. These include a mix of formal and informal learning spaces – a dedicated base for year 7 and 8 girls, science, drama and event facilities.
Architects: Woods Bagot. Assembly was conceived as an assemblage of four individual buildings on an elevated site akin to a village on the hill to create a medium-density residential community.
Architect: Robbie Walker. The owners of this property spent about a year and half using the attic as their bedroom. They had to go up and down a ladder five times a night to a newborn baby. So, they decided to add a master bedroom pod for a very, very deserving mum.
Design: Open Studio Pty Ltd Architecture. The clients’ brief was clear and simple: a semi-permanent residence – something more than a weekender – for a couple, their dog and sporadic visitors.
Design: FMSA Architecture. Ashwood Chadstone Gateway project is a major housing and urban renewal development providing high quality housing in Ashwood and Chadstone area 15km outside of Melbourne CBD across six sites.
Design: Irons McDuff Architecture. An affordable housing solution for a final land release in the coastal town of Barwon Heads. Situated only 100 metres from the Barwon River, Riverwalk house is a simple series of gabled forms, creating a spacious home while making the most of a central garden and open space for active boys.
House in House in Fitzroy North design by Steffen Welsch Architects is an exploration of site boundary as limiter, as a frame to both internal and external spaces, form and void. It is a new build in a streetscape with significant heritage value.