Adaptive Reuse

March 18, 2024

It’s design festival season! Melbourne Design Week asks us to ‘Design the world you want’

With over 300 events planned, the eighth edition promises another marathon week of design and its theme is at once a proposition of hope and an urgent call-to-arms.

June 5, 2023

This inner Melbourne home alludes to growing up on a farm

Glenn Lamont and his family have created a home that is uniquely their own, inspired by early childhood memories of growing up on a farm.

October 17, 2022

Small footprint living comes to life in this architect’s North Melbourne home

The lines of the Mike Morris’s 1970s architecture remain clear and defined in this current Foomann renovation.

January 31, 2022

Living between past and present

Since 1905, Leichhardt in NSW has been home to an industrial, hangar-like military building, a drill hall. The task for Tobias Partners was two-fold — restore the historical elements of the structure while also echoing the heritage details indoors in a contemporary reimagining of the space.

November 24, 2020

Bodyscape Yoga Studio Is Tranquil, Through And Through

A historic post office in Perth has been transformed by State of Kin, a local design practice, into Bodyscape Yoga, delivering a newfound state of zen to its yogi clientele.

August 4, 2020

One U-Shaped Room Is Now A House In Itself

Once a room within one big, bourgeois house, this U-Shaped Room has become a grand little house in itself, thanks to a reimagining of space by Atelier tao+c.

June 9, 2020

Dialling In With Richard Peters

On episode 6 of Dialling In With Habitus, we speak to Richard Peters about the performance of his own home completed a decade prior, residential design moving forward, and what it’s like to lead a team remotely.

October 16, 2018

The Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts By Herzog & de Meuron

Herzog & de Meuron’s thoughtful intervention to the historic fabric of a former police station transforms a walled-off compound into a nexus of cultural exchange.