PROJECTS

Nestled in a historic building in Melbourne’s CBD, this retail fitout by Clare Cousins Architects balances architectural heritage with Aesop’s signature, contemporary aesthetic.

With precision and nuance, Kerstin Thompson Architects and BVN have come together to create a benchmark workplace and urban project that celebrates and re-energizes the iconic Gothic Bank Complex in Melbourne’s CBD.

Architects EAT has reinvented a 150-year-old three-storey factory at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital into a dynamic and adaptive workplace for 150 administrative staff, all while celebrating the existing building fabric.

Collins Arch – a collaborative new tower, plaza and park has the potential to shift the city’s twenty-first-century centre of gravity.

In its design for a flagship skincare store behind a dilapidated terrace house in Melbourne’s Carlton, Herbert and Mason in collaboration with Grown Alchemist contrasts the pristine with the industrial to enhance both qualities.

In a 19th-century Italianate building in Melbourne, architecture studio Kennon has redesigned a recognized hair salon into the perfect backdrop for “me time.”

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

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.

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.

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.

Two new towers by Candalepas Associates, the hotel QT Melbourne on Russell Street and the AHL Headquarters on George Street in Sydney, complement the existing fabric of the city with compositional finesse.

Six Degrees Architects references De Stijl and late modernism in its design of this business accelerator for the burgeoning community of Melton, west of Melbourne.

With the aspiration to create one of the healthiest headquarters in the world, Medibank enlisted multidisciplinary design firm Hassell to create a head office where employees have freedom to choose how and where they work.

Hassell’s new headquarters for healthcare giant Medibank delivers a vibrant and health-centred workplace while being a hospitable neighbour to stadium-goers.

Emporium Melbourne is in some ways a model of classic retail planning, but in other ways it turns this model on its head.

The Melbourne home of the Australian Institute of Architects speaks of the integral role of the architecture profession in the future of Australia’s cities.

Grimshaw Architects in association with The Buchan Group “civilizes” Australia’s third largest retail mall, in Melbourne’s north-west.

Paul Morgan Architects crowns an iconic Melbourne market with a pragmatic and elegant roof.

An office by Hassell with spaces designed to be bustling, relaxed and easily adapted.

Bates Smart’s National Centre for Synchrotron Science in Melbourne creates the conditions in which to see.

A classic riverside restaurant by Allan Powell Architects at Melbourne’s reborn Hamer Hall.

A tiny studio in an orchard in Officer, Victoria, is base camp for Branch Studio Architects.

Russell & George’s unified space for the Melbourne Thurley store belies a richly layered and detailed interior.

Kenzo’s Melbourne store is an enchanting example of simple and rich design that reflects and complements the brand.

A historical flavour combines with a love of fine dining in Hecker Guthrie’s interiors for a new French brasserie in Melbourne.

A new hotel concept, the Lost & Found is a temporary, free hotel room for sampling the work of creative Melburnians.

Quirky details and a passion for sport set apart the Middle Park Hotel in Melbourne.

The interiors of this restaurant by Buro Architects move gradually from dramatic dark to light and airy.

Cafe Bourgeois by Minifie van Schaik Architects provides a retreat for Melbourne’s Docklands office workers.