Houses

Merricks Farmhouse by Michael Lumby Architecture with Nielsen Jenkins is located on Victoria’s picturesque Mornington Peninsula, set among the region’s amiable wineries and charming seaside hamlets. The elevated, fifty-acre property is on a country l

The fortified tower and the walled garden are intriguing motifs for a suburban house extension. On one hand, these elements are essentially defensive, speaking to ideas of individualism, security and territory. On the other, they are ancient city arc

Balance. From self-help books and diets to tips for juggling commitments in our work and personal lives, balance is frequently touted as the solution in our quest for a contented life. Our yearning for calm and restorative homes is often realized thr

Sunday is one of several small terraces arranged amid an assortment of houses, repurposed factories and a pub in a typical Fitzroy backstreet. This area lays claim to the earliest terrace housing in Melbourne, with examples from the 1850s still stand

Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months. Now that everything had returned to normal, he was surprised th

Smaller-scaled apartments in the inner suburbs have a bit of a bad reputation in Brisbane. Perhaps this is a legacy of the boxy brick six packs that stripped many inner-suburban streets of their traditional timber-and-tin houses in the 1960s and 1970

Architect Andrew Boyne and his wife, Erica, were not looking to buy land and build a house when they happened across this site in 2018. In fact, they were considering a return to the USA – Erica’s home country – to put down roots, but then they saw a

This project began in 2011, in our practice’s first year of fully fledged operation, and it was without question the one that put us on the map. I officially opened Philip Stejskal Architecture in April and Kim and Phil came to see me in August. The

Many Melburnians know Burnley Street in the inner-city suburb of Richmond as a bustling industrial strip connecting the Monash Freeway to the south to Victoria Street in the north. The street’s entire length is endlessly full of vehicles packed as de

A move into town from a remote farming community prompted Potter and Wilson’s clients to add a new structure to a half-acre site on the southern edge of Armidale, complementing the farmhouse that had occupied the property since the end of the ninetee

Sporting a bushman’s beard, black shirt and jeans and R. M. Williams boots, architect Brad Swartz has a quiet presence. A modern-day minimalist, his work combines rigorous architectural planning, restraint with materials, and uncommon inventiveness w

Gippsland-based innovators Base Cabin began producing tiny homes when founders Ryan McCormack and David Clarke identified a gap in the market. “There were no thoughtfully designed, high-quality small spaces readily available in Australia,” says Ryan.

Dividing the suburbs of Burnside and Beaumont, located about 15 minutes’ drive east of the centre of Adelaide, a narrow ribbon of tarmac winds through a steep, heavily wooded valley toward the First Falls waterfalls. In the late 1880s, this sinuous t