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One of the small incremental changes made was to the threshold between the entrance and the front living area.

Don’t want a big reno? Doing less can create more

There are ways of increasing the sense of space and light. And doing less can often create significantly more, says an architect.

  • Stephen Crafti

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Goldfields’ planned 18-storey commercial tower at 88 Robertson Street, Fortitude Valley

‘Last piece of James Street puzzle’: Plans for Fortitude Valley office tower

A Melbourne-based developer has submitted plans to build what it claimed would be Brisbane’s best office tower outside the CBD.

  • Cameron Atfield
The sunken lounge is almost ‘buried’ into the garden.

Family compound escapes demolition, becomes elegant home

Large home plots in Melbourne’s blue-chip Toorak tend to be a prime target for demolition.

  • Stephen Crafti
“It was the perfect spot to create a new open-plan kitchen and living area,” said architect Matthew Woodward.

Living in the ’70s: Reinventing a Bayview beach house

The decade was defined by great music, cheap fuel and homes with open-plan living, but this residence missed out on that last key attribute.

  • Stephen Crafti
River House’s interiors were redesigned by architect Susi Leeton and the garden by landscape architect Myles Baldwin.

Homes from the ’80s scream for attention, but this river gem is different

A 40-odd-year-old home overlooking inner Melbourne’s Yarra couldn’t be more at odds with the ‘greed is good’ reputation of the 1980s.

  • Stephen Crafti
The contemporary Albert Park home designed by Clare Cousins Architects.

Overcoming heritage controls to design award-winning home

Heritage areas such as Albert Park can be tough places to design anything with a contemporary whiff.

  • Stephen Crafti
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The studio at the rear of the Red Hill workers’ cottage has separate street access that opens onto the garden.

Brisbane home office clocks on to win architecture prize

In a sign of changing work-life dynamics, a Red Hill home-office renovation has won a national design award.

  • Liz Hobday
The stand-alone lift shaft on the street.

Enter this spectacular home via the stand-alone lift shaft on the street, please!

Visitors to the once-dilapidated fisherman’s cottage in Birchgrove, with spectacular Parramatta River views, enter via a stand-alone lift shaft on the street.

  • Stephen Crafti
Mansard House was redesigned by Studio Bright.

Far from groovy: How did this 70s house win a top architecture award?

Think of sunken lounges - often referred to as “conversation pits” - indoor gardens, exposed timber ceilings, built-in bespoke joinery, and vast open plan entertaining areas.

  • Stephen Crafti
The refurbished Fairlie apartment was designed by Kennedy Nolan.

Australia’s most expensive apartment in the 1960s has had a luxurious facelift

Move over, Barangaroo and Paragon: this ’60s Fairlie apartment has top-end design in a highly coveted apartment block.

  • Stephen Crafti

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