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The Airey’s Inlet house is constructed from compressed cement panels and pearlescent-coloured translucent fibre-reinforced plastic.

Shell art got a shellacking. Now it makes an architectural comeback in this beach house design

A tongue-in-cheek beach house makes effective use of shell art and cement panels.

  • Stephen Crafti

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Bates Smart director Jeff Copolov’s grandmother Bertha Tandler, aunt Elizabeth Burman and grandfather Richard Tandler at the ICI House “open house” in 1958.

The skyscraper that changed a city – and one man’s life

Orica House, Australia’s first modern skyscraper, changed Melbourne’s skyline forever. Almost 70 years later, it’s about to be at the heart of the city’s story again.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Architectural firm Techne got the job of redesigning this grand Victorian house in South Melbourne.

What do Brunetti’s and the Espy Hotel have in common with a dour Victorian home?

A couple, one of whom previously worked as a chef, gave architecture firm Techne the job of redesigning their Victorian house.

  • Stephen Crafti
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
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
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“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
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

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