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
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The Shrine is turning 90. But should it have even been built?
It was the project that divided Melbourne and split the architectural community. A new exhibition reopens the city’s wartime wounds.
- by Ray Edgar
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
The wild rooftop garden in Redfern that took home a prize
Gardens, courtyards and sheds. That’s the theme of the winners of this year’s residential architecture awards, including House of the Year.
- by Julie Power
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Collectables
Love it or loathe it, 1980s architecture is back in the frame
Whether it’s the return of big shoulder pads or the Memphis movement from the early 1980s, sometimes it’s difficult to pinpoint when and where there’s a shift in direction.
- by Stephen Crafti
Copper topper showstopper? The plan for one of Brisbane’s oldest homes
It was home to Captain Henry O’Reilly in the 1860s, then became a convent. Now, Toonarbin is set for a modern makeover featuring a new entrance and balconies.
- by Sean Parnell
This small apartment in Melbourne’s inner south-east packs a big punch
The two-bedroom apartment is on the top floor of a 1940s duplex and features three-metre-high ceilings.
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
The forgotten Robin Boyd house open to the public for the first time
The little-known Wildwood home, designed by celebrated architect Robin Boyd in 1962, quietly went on sale last year. The couple who snapped it up are still pinching themselves.
- by Cara Waters
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Sydney
These house renders look so real buyers want them
A new book about Glenn Murcutt’s designs that were never built brings many to life using the latest computer modelling and CGI imagery.
- by Julie Power
The postwar homes in Bayside at the centre of a heritage fight
Some residents are concerned that modernist mid-century homes will be at risk of demolition if councillors spurn a heritage protection push.
- by Cara Waters