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...
Borrowed Light by Shelby Ann Studio Is a Study in Elevating an Ordinary Suburban Home.The story usually goes that living beautifully requires a blank site, a serious budget and a willingness to wait until life settles down. Borrowed Light dismantles all three. In Melbourne's Preston, Shelby Ann Studio has renovated a plain...
Inside Sculpted, a Sydney Home Built Like a Macro Sculpture.When your client is a working sculptor, why not build the house like one? Madeleine Blanchfield Architects' latest project distils a Sydney home to its essential expression, carving raw brick, concrete and oak into a hillside site above...
Strength, Not Ornament: The Distinctly Female Presence Behind Coogee House III.In Coogee, Sydney architect Hannah Tribe and interior designer Genevieve Hromas shaped a family home around a distinctly female presence, expressed through strength rather than ornament. Brick detailing reads like stitches in a tapestry;...
The Findling: Of Possible Floats a Larch Retreat on 500-Million-Year-Old Boulders.In German, 'findling' means both 'orphan' and 'glacial erratic'. Brooklyn studio Of Possible leaned into both meanings for this timber retreat in Austerlitz, New York, commissioned by two Manhattan psychoanalysts seeking a more restorative...
The 2026 NSW Architecture Awards House Winners We Can’t Stop Looking At.Narrow terraces, unbuildable escarpments, bushfire-prone bushland—none of it slowed the field down. The residential winners of the 2026 NSW Architecture Awards prove how much delight a difficult site can hold, with material honesty,...
Arent&Pyke Soften a Federation Home in Mosman with Curves, Colour and Slow-Crafted Stone.Few Australian studios have built a business as quietly assured as Arent&Pyke. At Bradleys Head House in Mosman, that same generosity of spirit fills every room—a Federation Arts and Crafts residence recast for a new generation, where...
Incomplete by Design: Ænsemble’s Country House by the River in Brandenburg.Heritage renovation lives and dies by a single question: how much do you let the past speak, and how loudly do you answer back? Ænsemble's approach to this Wilhelminian country house in Brandenburg is a thoughtful responses to that...
On the Edge of the Possible: Bokey Grant Architects’ EA House in NSW Southern Highlands.There are houses that solve problems, and then there are houses that re-frame the question. EA House by Bokey Grant Architects, perched on an "unbuildable" cliff-face escarpment in NSW's Southern Highlands, falls squarely in the second...
