Melbourne Architecture

March 21, 2023

Wood Marsh designs a series of stem-like residences

Treading the fine line between art and architecture, the Wood Marsh design for No. 6 Sydney Street in Prahran is realised as a sculptural form that sits lightly in the streetscape.

November 16, 2022

A cut below

Instead of building up, Mitsuori Architects dug down, resulting in a home that responds better to the needs and aspirations of its occupants.

August 29, 2022

Embedded into its locale

Sympathetically coalescing the original Victorian architecture with the 1980s renovation by architect Mick Jörgensen, Studio Bright’s contemporary extension on Autumn House is masterful.

June 20, 2022

Quiet achievers

Wellard Architects is a practice that doesn’t make a fuss, or shout out its name. The practitioners of this studio are the quiet achievers but they happen to be making quite a lot of design noise at the moment.

May 25, 2022

Putting the mid-century into Thornbury

Dan Gayfer Design has reimagined a jaded family home with mid-century accents and stellar planning for a food-loving family of four.

April 6, 2022

An Edwardian home gets a new lease on life

Despite having free reign for a complete knock-down, Figr Architecture chose to work with the existing home, where tradition formed an integral part of the design.

March 30, 2022

A house fit for cats… and humans

Maike Design has considered the specific needs of felines and their owners in this thoughtfully reconfigured Melbourne home.

March 15, 2022

This house folds its way in and out of a narrow site

Timmins + Whyte nicknamed this Abbotsford house “10 Fold” in reference to its architectural language and the fact that its owners enjoy it ten times more than anyone could have anticipated.

September 15, 2021

Redefined lines and living

Some dwellers seek the kind of privacy that requires high fences, demarcating their property from their neighbours. The vision for Dover Townhouses was to do just the opposite.

July 26, 2021

Fusing Two Eras Together

Techne’s expansion of Rowena Parade pulls the surrounding landscape and garden settings inward, altering and elevating the experience of the home.

June 30, 2021

Swapping Suburbia for a Compact Inner-City Terrace

Mitsuori Architects believes that space is a valuable commodity – and they know how to use every inch.

May 31, 2021

Modest With A Touch of Luxury

Designed by Modscape, this home in St Kilda integrates everything the clients desired within a minimal footprint and maximum outcome.