Urban

A much-loved home in Hobart is given a refresh that’s economic, sustainable and a tad daring.

A sensitive update to a home by seminal modernist architects McGlashan and Everist keeps the spirit of the original design alive.

When a staged alteration and addition became a knock-down rebuild, the homeowners reduced the size of their house – allowing for greater indoor-outdoor connections and landscaped areas.

A sensitive retrofit by PHOOEY Architects retains the best of a 90s house in Malvern and boosts its thermal and acoustic performance.

An Art Deco cottage is given a revamp by Mihaly Slocombe that’s equal parts respectful and risk-taking.

New Zealand’s Spacecraft Architects has served up an ingenious courtyard house for a family on a windswept site where no single metre is wasted.

Makiko Ryujin and Michael Gittings are makers and collaborators who bring out the best in each other.

The Herald Garden Studio resides at the southern end of a Victorian cottage block in Berhampore, Wellington.

A timber Federation cottage in Tassie is transformed into a highly personalised, ‘feathered’ sanctuary.

Ben Callery Architects overcame an unusual site with a convention-busting design that embraces a family’s flow.

“The brief and scope for this project [were] so exciting,” shares Danielle Brustman, the interior designer behind Cremorne’s Brighton Street Early Learning Centre by Perkins Architects.

An infill development for a downsizing family packs a lot of style and savvy into its compact footprint.