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Smart Design Studio collaborated with the University of Technology Sydney to achieve the parametric vaults.

Parametric pursuit: Stokes 14

In an inner-city Sydney suburb of urban renewal, Smart Design Studio has made the most of the opportunity to re-imagine its own workspace, experimenting with materials and geometries to create a beautiful place in which to work and live.

Commercial
In keeping with the Incu visual language, materials such as timber, brick and terracotta allow the clothing to be drawn to the foreground.

‘A better way’: Incu HQ and Outlet

Akin Atelier

Tasked with creating a retail space, head office and warehouse for contemporary fashion brand Incu, Akin Atelier has transformed an old mechanic’s workshop in Sydney into a space that embodies fashion, design and expert workmanship.

Commercial, Interiors
Hair is coloured, cut and styled in the 20 chairs through the centre of the heritage building.

Cut and colour: Headcase Hair

Studio Snoop has given this longstanding hair salon in Sydney’s Paddington a fresh new look – one that reflects the owners’ journeys to fashion shows and photo shoots all over the world.

Commercial
Carefully considered openings in the glass brick walls promote cross-ventilation and direct engagement with outside activity.

A tough little building with a big civic heart

This office building by Clare Cousins Architects glows as a beacon of utilitarian elegance amidst the industrial lowlands of Collingwood.

Commercial
A generous multi-functional library is large enough to accommodate events and meetings alongside essential day-to-day amenity.

Crafted modernism: SJB Sydney Studio

When SJB embarked on a major redesign of its Sydney studio, it was a unique opportunity to create an authentic and friendly workplace that fostered equity, creativity and a sense of pride and belonging for all.

Commercial
At the urban and interior scale, the Link can be read like an arcade, the retail typology celebrated in the early twentieth century.

A contemporary colonnade: The Link at Chadstone

Make Architects

The Link by Make Architects (design architects) and Cera Stribley (delivery architects) is an elegant walkway that connects the largest shopping centre in the Southern Hemisphere with an office tower and a hotel.

Commercial, Interiors
The architecture of Aman Kyoto is visually simple and minimalist to allow nature and landscape to dominate. The Living Pavilion forms the social hub of the property, and opens onto a large timber dining terrace with sunken fire pit.

Suspended in time and space: Aman Kyoto

Kerry Hill Architects offers a finely detailed and thoughtful interpretation of traditional Japanese architecture in its latest hotel for Aman.

Commercial
The market hall includes a series of simple, self-contained pods. Artwork: Nike Savvas.

‘A place to explore’: Darling Exchange Market Hall

Known primarily for its restaurant interiors and, increasingly, its residential architecture, Anthony Gill Architects has completed its most ambitious project to date, the market hall in Kengo Kuma’s Darling Exchange in Sydney.

Commercial, Interiors
The translucent polycarbonate screens between bays make for a spatially dynamic environment that fosters a sense of safety.

‘Welcome to Sparkletown’: Northshore Car Wash

Twohill and James‘s Googie-style car- and pet-washing facility is a community landmark that encourages social activity and adds character to its suburban Townsville location

Commercial
The interior’s walls and floors are lined with honed London White Marble, giving the space a soft, winter feel. Ozlana’s staple product is the parka.

Winter wonderland: Ozlana

Pattern Studio has created a calming, wintry and almost otherworldly flagship store in Sydney for luxury Australian brand Ozlana.

Commercial
With its cryptic facade, Phoenix both responds to its urban surrounds and conceals its interior miscellany.

Miracle box: Phoenix Central Park

Behind a singular brick facade, John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers have brought into dialogue a labyrinthine gallery and a timber-lined performance space.

Commercial
The high table used for blending is deliberately located in the front window, playing an integral role in the tenancy’s street presence.

Raw and tactile: Seen Skin

Melbourne design studio Golden has taken Seen Skin’s confident approach to skincare and translated it into a spatial experience rich in texture and tactility.

Commercial, Interiors
Byres Street by Cavill Architects in association with Hogg and Lamb.

Grand gesture: Byres Street

Designed by Cavill Architects in association with Hogg and Lamb, this Brisbane office building uses a grand atrium and staircase to encourage interaction and a sense of community.

Commercial, Interiors
Textured granite, which has been used extensively in the store, contrasts with the immense stainless-steel counter.

Texture and permanence: Aesop Sydney

Snøhetta Akershusstranda 21 Skur 39

Inspired by sandstone cliffs and monumentality, the new Aesop store in Sydney’s Pitt Street Mall references the city’s textures and character. International studio Snøhetta’s design is generous and flexible for customers and staff alike.

Commercial, Interiors
Install House by Partners Hill.

Architectural archeology: Install House

In one of the oldest structures in Tasmania, Partners Hill has created a mixed-use space, and a home, that honours the building’s varied historical program, while equipping it thoughtfully for 21st century life.

Commercial, Residential
The central hall of the Dangrove by Tzannes.

‘Extraordinary in every sense’: Dangrove Art Storage Facility

The uncompromising architecture of this building is reflective of, and contributes, to the cultural ambition of the institution.

Commercial, Interiors
The windows are double-framed, making the glazing blast-proof in the unlikely event of an explosion at the nearby port.

A deceptively simple cafe: Gathered

Designed by Ewert Leaf, this pared-back and striking cafe in Melbourne’s Footscray belies a host of logistical and functional solutions to manage its portside setting.

Commercial, Hospitality, Interiors
The avocado-hued reception gives a friendly first impression to the spaces beyond.

Work the room: The Commons QV

Foolscap Studio, ISM Objects and Light Project

This co-working space in Melbourne’s CBD designed by Foolscap Studio champions different working styles – from conversations in the amphitheatre to brainstorming in a sensory room.

Commercial, Interiors
The oversized arches, with their black mullions and dark glass, recall both Louis Sullivan’s National Farmers’ Bank of Owatonna and the Harbour Bridge.

Recalling bygone grandeur: Rail Operations Centre

Memorializing the tectonics of tunnels, bridges and nineteenth-century suburban train stations, this red-brick, big-box building in inner-city suburban Sydney is a rich form of infrastructure architecture that represents an investment in workers and in the area’s rapidly changing urban fabric.

Commercial
Each of Arc’s four facades matches the height and rhythm of neighbouring elevations, showing deference to its context.

Tall towers amid brick warehouses: Arc

Demonstrating careful consideration of its heritage surrounds and with a mix of uses throughout, this finely detailed skyscraper by Koichi Takada Architects advances the social culture and amenity of central Sydney.

Commercial, Residential
The lantern-like entry tower exaggerates the scale of the building and celebrates its structure.

Delicately rigged: Les Wilson Barramundi Discovery Centre

Bud Brannigan Architects’ building for a fish hatchery and interpretation centre in Karumba, Queensland is a poetic and uncompromising celebration of the town’s industrial legacy.

Commercial, Public / cultural
A knuckle in the plan establishes the main entry to the buildings and efficiently connects public-facing elements to the laboratory and workshop components.

Precisely calibrated: AGT Southern Crop Breeding Centre

Ashley Halliday Architecture Interiors

Ashley Halliday Architecture Interiors has reinterpreted the shed as a vessel for advanced technology, science and innovation in a new plant breeding and crop research facility.

Commercial
Programmatic shifts are expressed externally, signalling the transition from barn to shed and alluding to the collection of buildings that typically characterize farm settings.

Crème de la crème: The Creamery, Bannister Downs Dairy

In its expansion plan for a successful dairy business based in Northcliffe, Western Australia, Bosske Architecture has explored the architectonic potential of the farm, finding a solution that is utilitarian and agricultural, yet corporate and spectacular.

Commercial
Once a tired part of Canberra Centre, Monaro Mall’s two refurnished levels have been invigorated and include the new Beauty Arcade.

Material culture: Canberra Centre

London-based architecture firm Universal Design Studio with Mather Architecture has restored and redeveloped the historic Canberra Centre into a sophisticated urban retail precinct.

Commercial, Interiors
A striking metal pattern layer forming a changeable water drop motif stretches across the 1970s structure like a draped skin.

Industrial revolution: Barwon Water

GHDWoodhead’s transformation of the 1970s Geelong headquarters of Victoria’s largest urban water corporation into a striking contemporary office is symbolic of the urban renewal at the regional city’s cultural and civic heart.

Commercial
Located between a terrace house and an industrial brick warehouse in Sydney’s Surry Hills, the Beehive explores the use of recycled terracotta tiles – an often overlooked symbol of suburbia – in the design of an architecture studio.

Terracotta trope: The Beehive

The Beehive, designed by Raffaello Rosselli Architect with Luigi Rosselli Architects, is a poetic exploration of the aesthetic and structural potential of recycled materials as applied to the design of this architectural family’s own Surry Hills studio.

Commercial
The composition of stacked volumes protrudes and retracts, articulating a compartmentalized language. The ground floor is predominantly dedicated to commercial use, while the upper levels are residential.

Alluring and bold: Mixed Use House

A multi-generational home and commercial tenancy coexist in St Kilda’s Mixed Use House, designed by Matt Gibson Architecture and Design with DDB Design, to explore and rethink traditional family housing typologies.

Commercial, Residential
International House Sydney by Tzannes.

Touch wood: International House Sydney

This new commercial building in Barangaroo South, designed by Tzannes, celebrates the material, structural and aesthetic qualities of wood and sets a precedent for the use of engineered timber in Australia.

Commercial
Regular ribs and strips of honey-coloured timber are key to the character of the project and a nod to the Queensland tradition of timber construction.

Theatrical and meticulous: The Kitchens

This new market hall, designed by ACME, Landini Associates and The Buchan Group, is a theatrical and meticulously crafted insertion in the Robina Town Centre redevelopment and a crucial contribution to an enriched urban space.

Commercial
Sandwiched between an older-style petrol station and a furniture store, the building is a sculptural marvel in an otherwise featureless road.

Postmodern petrol station: United Petroleum

This futuristic reimagining of the humble roadside service station as sculptural architecture by Peddle Thorp Architects brings a postmodern statement to Corio, on the industrial outskirts of Geelong.

Commercial