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Kerstin Thompson Architects designed the Eva and Marc Besen Centre for the couple’s extensive art collection.

Award-winning new building to store and display renowned Besen art collection at TarraWarra

Just 5 per cent of the art collected by philanthropists Eva and Marc Besen can be displayed at any time. A new centre by architect Kerstin Thompson will change that.

  • Stephen Crafti

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Inside Victoria’s best: A photo essay of the 2025 Architecture Award winners
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Inside Victoria’s best: A photo essay of the 2025 Architecture Award winners

From a cemetery depot to a stunning contemporary house that embraces its natural surroundings, here are some of the top accolades from the state’s architecture awards.

  • Cara Waters
A steel-clad top level encloses the more informal terrace.

Parisienne-style restaurant served with a twist: red paint running down naked bodies

Maison Batard takes its design cues from restaurateur Chris Lucas and his wife Sarah’s trips to the French capital.

  • Stephen Crafti
Communal bathing space The Bathhouse has been nominated for this year’s Australian Interior Design Awards.

High honour: Cannabis dispensary, luxury bathhouse nominated for design awards

Against the ever-expanding global wellness market, two Brisbane venues have been nominated for Australia’s top interior design awards.

  • Courtney Kruk
Unusually for a hotel, the colour white is banished. East-facing rooms are painted a deep, calming green.

Melbourne’s new boutique hotel that’s bringing moody luxury back

Guests enter a cavernous lobby where the steel reception bench is framed by artist Atong Atem’s video installation.

  • Stephen Crafti
Architects Lachlan Campley with his dog Bear and Holly Julian with her dog Judy at the firm’s pet-friendly Sydney offices.

The secret to designing the perfect office space

Architects and designers argue that going into a well-designed office offers so much more than face-to-face time with colleagues.

  • Robyn Willis
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Unlike many single-fronted terraces that can feel cavernous and dark, this home benefits from generous glazing along the entire western elevation.

Architect-designed Northcote house keeps it simple in cost-of-living crisis

It may not have wall-to-wall marble, but this simple architect-designed house shows what can be achieved on a relatively modest budget.

  • Stephen Crafti
Renders of Brisbane Place, a commercial tower proposed for the Stock Exchange Hotel site in the CBD.

‘Global city’: Corner pub set to become new Brisbane landmark

Plans have been lodged with Brisbane City Council for a 39-storey tower on a city block anchored by churches and heritage-listed buildings.

  • Sean Parnell
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
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

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