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  Tugun Residence

  Fairweather Proberts Architects

  Tugun, Gold Coast

  
  

  Fairweather Proberts’ Tugun Residence, recently commended by RAIA, was designed for a deadline. The client was involved in the construction industry and had resources on hand to build.

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  St Canice Residence

  Preston Lane Architects, Hobart
  
  This story begins in the 1920s, with an unassuming house on St Canice Avenue in Sandy Bay, five minutes from the heart of Hobart. When this modest home needed an extra room, an extra room was tacked on; until, like so many interwar homes, the St Canice Residence was entombed by decades of ad hoc alterations, transformed into a unplanned collection of disjointed rooms and convoluted spaces. Enter Preston Lane Architects. read more »
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  North Adelaide Residence

  Bruce Harry & Associates
  
  Adelaide lives in our collective conscience as a place of churches, tramlines and the seaside, and while it is most famously known as the City of Churches, it is perhaps more aptly associated with the charming Colonial and Federation sandstone architecture which gives the city its quintessentially Australian aesthetic. read more »
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  Eyelid House

  Fiona Winzar Architects; South Yarra, Melbourne
  
  In the inner city suburb of South Yarra, an earthy, solid looking Victorian terrace house features an extension that is at once bold and humble, forwardlooking and rustic. The salient feature of the extension, the Colorbond-clad ‘eyelid’, isn’t merely an appropriation of the pitched corrugated iron roofs of neighbouring heritage houses, but a testament to the architect’s interest in synthesizing randomness and order to craft a space that is natural and familiar. read more »
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  Balaam Residence

  Arkhefield, Brisbane
  
  Brisbane practice Arkhefield has grown rapidly in the ongoing into a confident, mid-sized firm of 40. Founded on a genuinely process-based, discursive form of architecture that actively works with the client, Arkhefield don’t come armed with a strong house style to impose on projects. What they do bring is general principles – on engagement with the environment and with the region. read more »
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  Eaglemont House

  Kennedy Nolan Architects, Victoria
  
  All demure federation brick cottage up front, Kennedy Nolan’s Eaglemont House is all unexpected grandeur and soaring sensuous curves from behind. It’s a combination something akin to a highpowered Bentley streetcar, or an extremely well-cut Armani suit: the rear extension billows out unexpectedly like a swathe of black satin, an effect at the same time subtly monumental and coolly impressive, emanating quiet charm from the front, and refined luxury upon closer inspection. read more »
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  Cities Within Cities

  How to urbanise, industrialise and modernise
  
  As the world lauds Shanghai as a model of exciting urbanism, University of Leeds’ Professor Justin O’Connor has noticed something disturbing. “What,” he asks, “is exciting other than a vicarious reliving of the West’s own innocently brutal days of early industrialisation and modernisation?” Somewhere between dystopic science fiction and this innocently brutal past, Chinese cities hold the West’s gaze with their images of booming growth, teeming masses and environmental apocalypse. But the fact is that nineteenth-century London translates poorly into twenty-first century eco-anxiety and is unimaginable on China’s staggering scale. This is China’s great problem: how to urbanise, industrialise and modernise when the Western model – the only one seriously available – seems to imply Armageddon?

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  Inkerman Oasis Housing Development

  Williams Boag Architects
  Port Phillips, Victoria

  The design of Oasis Stage 1 by Williams Boag suffered a web more tangled than usual. Yet the development, a brownfields transformation in central St Kilda, has managed to survive with its original values intact

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  Zone Apartments

  Stanisic Associates
  Wolli Creek, NSW
  
  Zone is sound evidence that compact living can be achieved without compromising environmental sensitivity: its situation in the urban renewal area of Wolli Creek - bordering on the mangroves of the Cooks River - is perfect proof of this. read more »
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  Air Apartments

  Ian Moore Architects
  Broadbeach, QLD

  With 134 apartments, a gymnasium and health club, landscaped gardens, pools and a tennis court, Air is the epitome of resort-style Gold Coast living, wearing a sophisticated designer façade. Due to the characteristic topography of the area – the tower is wedged into that narrow strip of development with ocean and beach on one side, mined sand dunes, the Nerang River, canals, floodplains and hinterland on the other.

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