The iconic sails of the Sydney Opera House are covered in over a million white ceramic tiles. Every five years, engineers must inspect each individual tile by tapping it with a hammer. But that job could get a whole lot easier.
What stands out about the project is not its architectural enhancements, but the subtle interior design choices that went into creating an atmosphere that is both classic and of the moment.
Sick of gorgeously sleek-yet-cozy Melbourne homes yet? We aren’t either. This recently completed restoration and addition project, for one, revives a 19th-century Italianate Victorian to splendid effect.
You haven’t seen a sublime Australian home until you’ve seen the cozy-cool abode of Melbourne couple Poppy Lane and Scott Gibson, who together design furniture and homewares for their business Pop and Scott. Their home, believe it or not, is a...
The dwelling, a design by Brisbane-based architecture studio Refresh Design, includes an open-plan kitchen, living, and dining room that floats above a paved carport on the house’s tight, verdant lot.
Erected over a period of six weeks by Archiblox, the two-bedroom abode was sustainability-driven throughout, from the initial decision to go prefab to the hardwood cladding milled from sustainable forestry methods.
Originally built in 1881 as the keeper’s residence for Sydney's 200-hundred-year-old Macquarie Lighthouse, this fabulously-maintained "cottage" perches above a rocky cliff with astonishing city and ocean views. Wow oh wow.
How do you expand a home without changing too much of its original character? For Melbourne-based Inbetween Architecture, the solution was creating an entirely new structure and attaching it to the existing 1970s-era brick and wood-sided cottage.
It seems that a proposal to add balconies to each apartment of the Sirius building in Sydney, Australia was not enough to save the Brutalist, Tao Gofers-designed structure from being demolished.
When one decides to build a home on a site with no power, water, or road access, going off-grid becomes not just an eco-conscious choice but a practical necessity. This was precisely the case with this new project on Australia’s French Island.
To conserve square footage in the skinny A&M House, the architects did away with all semblance of traditional doors and dividers inside the house, instead deploying a series of interior sliding glass doors, curtains, and more.
The apartment, called Microluxe, was refurbished by Melbourne firm Edwards Moore and includes surfaces paneled with marble, geometric neon lighting, and other touches.
The walls here range from the muted greys to jet black to a rich blue and green in the children’s bedrooms, but they all play backdrop to a characterful collection of furniture and tchotchkes.
This bunker-like, timber-sheathed "sleepout" (Aussie for guest house) outside of Melbourne is an airy retreat for a big extended family and their friends.
The Aussies are still at it with their "party in the back" game. Here, the classic Victorian facade of this 16-foot-wide inner city Melbourne home belie the dramatically modern revamp in the rear.
Dubbed the Stepping House, and designed by Melbourne firm Bower Architecture, the residence's lowkey black-and-white facade hides stellar, light-filled interiors.
Designed as a prototype for housing in a suburbs of Perth, Australia, this corrugated-metal house was created to be compact, eco-friendly, and easy-to-build, so that it can be replicated elsewhere.
In the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, local firm Austin Maynard Architects designed this boxy steel-frame residence simply named "That House." The modestly sized residence, clocking in at about 2,744 square feet (255 square meters), was built in...
In a move that is definitely not a metaphor for the desire of mankind to repeat its greatest mistakes or anything like that, an Australian coal-mining magnate, billionaire Clive Palmer, has decided to rebuild the Titanic. The ship's name? Titanic...
Behind the Lens looks at architectural photographers both professional and amateur, examining how they got their start, stories from their portfolios, and tricks to capturing great design. Have a lensman in mind? Send links to portfolios (no photo...
Designed by an Australian architect as own family home in the 1950s, this easy, breezy, beautiful midcentury in Sydney's northern suburbs is, once again, a well-loved home for an architect's family. Owned for the last five years by Louise Bell,...
