Walking wukalina
Issue 61
A trek in Tasmania morphs into a journey through time, discovering the knowledge and traditions of Indigenous Australians.
Articles
Bravo Brugarol
Issue 60
A Spanish sojourn to imbibe the gastronomic, architectural and natural delights of a Catalonian farmhouse and winery.
Furneaux Foraging
Issue 59
Can you keep a secret? Whether intentionally or otherwise, the Flinders Island locals have managed to keep quiet about this extraordinary isle off north-eastern Tasmania.
Elemental Communion
Issue 61
From the outset, the owners of Opa Greek Meze Bar wanted to feature copper throughout their venue.
Something Different
Issue 61
Paramount House Hotel was designed to give a unique take on Australian hospitality in Sydney’s Surry Hills.
A Raw Reflection
Issue 60
Local Character
Issue 62
Light, bright and bold: this architect’s Perth family home is a modern take on gable-roofed character buildings complete with top-notch views.
Good Bones
Issue 62
Maddison Architects director Drew Carling and designer Jenni Draper found plenty to love about a “defensive” 45-year-old brown brick legal office on a tapering block in West Melbourne. The beauty of their high-impact renovation is its exquisite restraint.
Borrowed Landscapes
Issue 61
Panovscott has turned a workers cottage inside out and back-to-front to borrow from and contribute to the surrounding landscape.
Message in a Bottle
Issue 62
Clea Cregan of Miniscape Projects has proven how creativity and brilliant design can prosper in projects of any shape and size.
Survive and Thrive
Issue 62
The harsh conditions of a family’s coastal property and their self-confessed plant-killing tendencies culminate in a hard-wearing, unpretentious and welcoming garden.
Cultivating Community
Issue 61
Nick Steiner took a suburban backyard experiment and turned it into a thriving charity organisation that brings fresh produce to disadvantaged Australians.
Coastal Communion
Issue 62
For his own weekend retreat in Wye River, architect Ben Edwards used shipping containers to create a modest building with minimal impact on the land.
Simplicity Itself
Issue 61
'Not a McMansion’ was the brief for this Kerstin Thompson-designed beach house in Somers, which cleverly accommodates a retired couple and their regular guests with a cluster of pergola-linked pods elevated for sea breezes and views.
Ulterior Utopia
Issue 60
A garden-loving client relocating permanently to Sorrento sought help from her landscape designer sister Fiona Brockhoff and architect Clare Cousins to create a private, secure, flexible beach house whose clever arrangement of pavilions, courtyards and gardens offers strong connections to the coastal environment.
Living Memory
Issue 61
Drawing on the values, traditions and textures of agricultural history, this New Zealand home pays reverence to the land.
Where Old Meets New
Issue 60
This bold extension to a countryside Victorian cottage cleverly reuses materials and creates a warm family environment topped off with serious sustainable credentials.
Seasons Change
Issue 59
Edition Office’s award-winning home for an architecturally adventurous Fish Creek couple has used the constraints of its elevated site to create an expandable home of protected pavilions and courtyards with killer views to Wilson’s Prom.
Above and Beyond
Issue 62
Prefabrication (also affectionately referred to as prefab) continues to advance technologically, ever-reducing manufacturing and construction time and so lending itself to a broadening range of uses and settings. We’ve rounded up six of the best projects that proven just how versatile and sustainable prefab can be.
Pushing the Envelope
Issue 61
Bathrooms are not to be architecturally underestimated. They can be extravagant or understated, bountifully colourful or tonally restrained. When it comes to bathrooms, the devil is truly in the detail – fixtures and finishes are carefully selected to work together as a purposeful whole. We’ve chosen a range of bathrooms that rightfully assert themselves as singularly notable spaces.
Recipe for Success
Issue 60
Identifying the ingredients to create sustainable, practical and inventive multi-residential developments.