IM Café by Nula Studio Keeps Its Cool, Then Lets the Red Out.From the street, Nula Studio's IM Café presents as a continuous wall of stone, with window and door set flush. Inside, a covered porch reveals a glazed ceramic counter and a guillotine window with a counterweight of lead and fired clay....
Architect as Client: Inside Casa Piva, Andrew Piva’s Inward-Looking Melbourne Home.Casa Piva takes its time. A modest laneway door opens onto a cobblestone forecourt with two trees growing through the roof, then a single arch leads into compressed, low-lit rooms. The kitchen offers the first hint of warmth before a...
A Window Built for Orchids: The Swiss Watchmaker Behind Vitrocsa.Read enough of what Australian architects have said about Vitrocsa and two ideas keep coming back: elegance, and how little of the window is left once the building is finished. With minimalism now a box to tick on a spec sheet, it seemed...
Farrell Wray Architects Build a Concrete Gallery Around a Tree They Refused to Touch.Some sites come with a non-negotiable client, and at Marcellin College that client was a gum tree. Farrell Wray Architects' new flyover, connecting the school's junior and senior buildings in Bulleen, was designed and built without...
The Bonobo Trades Coastal Cliché for Brazilian Modernism Inside a Brutalist Byron Bay Shell.Raes' first proper step into the centre of Byron Bay comes with architecture by Richards & Spence and interiors from Manifold that skip the coastal clichés entirely, pulling from Brazilian modernism instead. Lachlan Cooper and Morgan Novy...
Wildcoast by Studio Kennon Builds for Bass Strait’s Wind, Rain and Salt.Positioned at the southern edge of the Mornington Peninsula, where the land meets Bass Strait, Wildcoast sits in a landscape with real intensity—unbroken wind off the Southern Ocean, driving rain, salt-thick air. Studio Kennon has let...
This Sarajevo Apartment is Teaching its Children What Architecture Is For.For most of the last century, architecture in Bosnia was something that happened to public buildings—admired from the footpath, and separate from how people lived at home. Which is what makes this Sarajevo apartment feel all the more...
A Concrete Coastal Retreat on the Mornington Peninsula Where Three Cultures Meet.Perched above Port Phillip Bay at Mount Martha, Mori House marks Portuguese practice Aires Mateus's first Australian project, realised with Melbourne firm MA+Co for Neometro's Jeff Provan. A loose cluster of off-form concrete pavilions...
Round and Round: Burr Turns a Madrid Apartment Into a System of Passage.Burr knows how to have fun with colour, material and shape without ever tipping into excess. AZ06, a Madrid apartment reworked for a family of five, rotates around the building core and operates as a loop rather than a sequence of closed...
