House Architecture

Shaun Lockyer Architects has designed this kitchen space a casual space for family breakfast, lunch and dinner – a kitchen calculated to be multifunctional and versatile in the truest sense.

Sitting as one of three in a row, this townhouse in the Melbourne beachside suburb of Elwood, is separated from its neighbour by a concrete party wall cutting from front to back.

Curves aren’t so common inside newly-renovated apartments. Then again not every apartment boasts an imposing and curvaceous grand piano just inside the front door either…

This pared-back dwelling by Archier, bridging mid-century modernist architecture with industrial rural language, is first and foremost a response to the owner’s mentality and intriguing lifestyle.

Fading like driftwood in the South Coast sun is a fine beach house by Sydney architects Smart Design Studio.

Best known for his later work on the Victorian Arts Centre and National Gallery, it was between 1939 and 1941 architect Roy Grounds finessed his trademark Modernist style on a series of apartment buildings in and around Melbourne’s inner southern suburbs. James Stephens and James Geer explore one of the most iconic, Toorak’s Moonbria, an ode to Grounds’ perfection of tiny spaces.

Built by the beach in a leafy subtropical idyll, the simplest of bathing facilities make the most of the great outdoors.

Architect Chris Bosse creates a home for himself that balances clean lines, classic and custom design elements with the structure’s original Victorian charms

The extension to a new inner Melbourne home uses bricks found on the site to add an historical link to the design conversation.