Urban

A second chance provides a clean slate to reimagine family life in an ‘urban barn’ unrestricted by the requirements of a previous period home.

Filled with exceptional moments across two street frontages, the fine-grained nature of the inner city is mirrored in this Darlinghurst home. This is no ordinary building.

A long time in the thinking and making, this family home extends into a space that honours the existing trees and prioritises small, value-driven design decisions over expansive ones.

Don’t be fooled by the laconic name – 2 Rooms is a beguiling heritage update by a builder and architect who understand the power of soulful interventions to transform, uplift and complete.

Slotted into a hillside with not much wriggle room, one simple volume transforms this cosy Wellington family home.

From Brisbane to Baghdad and back, this house flips the dominant architectural narrative of light-breezy-buildings-for-hot-climates on its head.

In Melbourne’s inner-north, a family home reinvents itself, opening up not just its footprint, but many possible future permutations.

Familial understanding and sensitive interventions have opened up a small Melbourne home with subtlety and grace, celebrating a glorious yellow gum and restoring cherished heritage moments in the process.

What happens when we stop competing for expensive city real estate and start sharing it instead?

Downtrodden, broken and far from its share house glory days, clever fixes restore dignity to a classic Sydney terrace.

Opening up pockets from within, this Melbourne house is teased apart to allow a traditional Victorian double-fronter to breathe.

For over a century this house has looked inwards, isolated from its stunning surroundings and community.