Commercial architecture
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.
- by Stephen Crafti
Latest
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.
- by Liz Hobday
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.
- by Stephen Crafti
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.
- by Stephen Crafti
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.
- by Stephen Crafti
Opinion
City life
Bloated, backward and banal, Vic Market rebuild is the opposite of good planning
Melbourne’s beloved city market is sensual, lively, and bustling with energy but is set to be overshadowed by a series of banal towers that look like they were produced by an AI robot.
- by Norman Day
Exclusive
Housing crisis
The Goldilocks solution to Sydney’s housing crisis
Sydneysiders have revealed strong preferences about where and how they want to live, and how they feel about their neighbours.
- by Julie Power
Crisis talks: Housing and sustainability challenges injects urgency into Perth Design Week
Once regarded as an indulgence for the leisure classes, architecture and design is now at the centre of the conversation.
- by Mark Naglazas
Opinion
City life
How Perth ended up with a convention centre that’s no icon but an eyesore
One of the world’s great architects had a grand vision for the centre. What we chose was a $300 million-plus “blot on the landscape” crying out for the wrecking ball.
- by Mark Naglazas
Life is far from boring for this senior by the Bay
People often make the mistake of thinking adventurous design is the realm of the young, but that’s certainly not the case for a senior living in a renovated 1920s apartment in Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay.
- by Stephen Crafti
Darebin Intercultural Centre – bringing the community together
A glimpse inside the new-look space bringing people of all cultures together to share their backgrounds and stories.
- by Stephen Crafti
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