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A draped linen curtain arc can be closed for instant privacy for solo work, or drawn open to produce an informal meeting space or reception.

Humanizing the office: Johnson Partners

YSG

In this Sydney office for a boutique consulting firm, YSG has replaced the sobriety of conventional corporate highrise offices with sculptural details and bold, expressive gestures.

Commercial, Interiors
The shelves in between the desks accommodate a collection of white study models.

Self expression: Smart Design Studio office

The new office of Smart Design Studio, in an industrial heritage conservation precinct in Sydney, is a sustainable, sculptural building purpose-built for the studio’s ambitions and practice.

Commercial
The gallery of Phoenix Central Park, designed by John Wardle Architects.

Stately pleasure dome: The interiors of Phoenix Central Park

In inner-city Sydney, John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers have respectively designed a gallery and performance space, each with its own language of materials and forms, that together result in a remarkable partnership of architecture and artistic fields.

Commercial
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
The buildings are arranged in a radial fan geometry, so as to open up views from the city to the harbour and to follow the sun’s trajectory.

Radial trio: International Towers Sydney

Presenting as three sibling buildings on the city skyline, International Towers Sydney by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners reconciles a tower and podium dichotomy with robust honesty of expression.

Commercial
The EY Centre by FJMT.

‘Intrinsically Sydney’: The EY Centre

Combining a kinetic timber facade and a typology more often associated with slick glass, FJMT has created this “sublime” office tower that is tuned to the history of its harbour-side site and is “intrinsically Sydney.”

Commercial
Two-part copper and timber doors, based on a Mexican cathedral, make for a grand and dramatic entry to the QT Melbourne hotel.

A fine pairing: 131 Russell Street and 478 George Street

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.

Commercial, Hospitality
Sydney 385 by Smart Design Studio.

Elemental and abstract: Sydney 385

Smart Design Studio’s new mixed-use building in Balgowlah, Sydney has an elegantly composed, layered outer skin that brings an urbane character to the suburban streetscape.

Commercial, Residential
A translucent glass screen covered with a 3M dichroic filter gives a kaleidescopic backdrop to the reception desk.

Balancing act: Humming Puppy Sydney

Inside an industrial brick building in Sydney’s Redfern, Karen Abernethy Architects in collaboration with Louisa Macleod have designed a space for yogis that is both immersive and reflective.

Commercial, Interiors
The glazed curtain wall of the new Novartis building works to explicitly communicate the transparency of the company’s practices and public presence.

Workplace drama: Novartis Head Office

HDR Rice Daubney’s design for Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Macquarie Park, Sydney provides staff and visitors with a complex, layered and dramatic experience.

Commercial
The twin elliptical towers of Australia Towers make for an impressive sight, with alternating striations of glazed surfaces and bronze panels.

City life: Australia Towers

Bates Smart’s twin elliptical towers in Sydney’s Olympic Park present architecture as a positive force in city life.

Commercial, Residential
Studios 54 is situated on a remnant site within an urban context, with an existing apartment building to its north and a laneway to its south.

Studios 54 by Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Projects

On a 126-square-metre site in suburban Sydney, Hill Thalis’s Studios 54 demonstrates how small sites can be used inventively to make the city richer and more diverse.

Commercial, Residential
The Beaux-Arts revivalist-style building at 50 Martin Place has been revitalized by Johnson Pilton Walker for Macquarie Group.

Jewel in the crown: 50 Martin Place

Johnson Pilton Walker revives a monumental building in one of Sydney’s most significant civic spaces.

Commercial
Vertical village: 8 Chifley Square

Vertical village: 8 Chifley Square

Lippmann Partnership and Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners’ tower in Sydney’s CBD succeeds in meeting rigid market demands for commercial office space, while also making a generous contribution to the public domain.

Commercial
The high-profile One Central Park project features a thirty-three-metre cantilevered sky garden and mirror installation. Artwork: Halo by Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford.

One Central Park

A compelling contribution to Sydney by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects.

Commercial, Public / cultural, Residential
The floating fitout barely touches the heritage-listed building shell.

Ansarada Office

Those Architects create a new work/life balance in the global office of a young tech company.

Commercial, Interiors
The reception area signals a comfortable and creative space.

Jackson Teece Sydney studio

A fresh new fitout for an established design practice in Walsh Bay.

Commercial, Interiors
Meeting and work spaces are open to encourage “instant immersion.”

Woods Bagot studio, Sydney

A more liveable work space in tune with a more flexible modern work force.

Commercial, Interiors
The new Jones the Grocer includes its signature cheese selection.

Jones the Grocer

Sydney’s iconic high street providore opens a restaurant / grocer by Landini Associates in Westfield, CBD.

Commercial, Hospitality
The retail arcade is successful in its ground plane control.

420 George St, Sydney

Hassell chairman Ken Maher reviews Bates Smart’s 420 George Street.

Commercial, Public / cultural
View east from Lake Burragorang. The visitor centre sits above the auxiliary spillway.

Warragamba visitor centre and masterplan

Lahz Nimmo and Spackman Mossop and Michaels created Warragamba Dam’s visitor centre and masterplan.

Commercial, Public / cultural