PROJECTS

Reflecting its residential context, this junior learning hub by Sibling Architecture uses colour and form to meet the needs of those in their first years at school.

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.

Inspired by surrealism, Studio 54 and the hedonistic gatherings of Salvador Dali, Ha Arc has designed a new nightclub in inner Melbourne that engulfs, disorients, surprises and delights – then sends you back out into the night.

Presented with a cavernous, uninviting hospitality space, Melbourne studio The Stella Collective set about turning it into an open, voluminous and comforting dining interior for Melbourne’s city workers.

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.

Studio Esteta has channelled Italian heritage and urban experiences to transform a nondescript suburban Melbourne shopfront into a welcoming deli and eatery.

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.

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.

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.

With an emphasis on design quality and detailing, this home by Powell and Glenn and Mim Design fuses the classic and contemporary to reimagine apartment living as generous and bespoke.

IF Architecture has taken cues from the history and culture of the Prince of Wales Hotel in Melbourne’s St Kilda to create a new dining experience in the upstairs restaurant.

Melbourne design firm Lukas Partners Interior Architecture combines bold colour, dramatic artworks and curvaceous geometries in the interiors for this new ninety-seven-room boutique hotel in Carlton.

Melbourne architecture practice Kennedy Nolan has revitalized the public arcades of Melbourne Central, strengthening the centre’s character and heightening the user experience.

This revamp of a worker’s cottage in Melbourne’s inner-north embraces colour and texture in a contemporary take on elaborate Italianate ornamentation.

For its new home in Melbourne’s Carlton, Techne Architecture and Interior Design has created a workplace expressed as a venue for creative production.

Edition Office’s skilful reworking of the Artbank premises in Melbourne’s Collingwood highlights the practice’s “judicious editing of intention.”

Working within the University of Melbourne’s original 1930s engineering workshop, Designinc has opened up the student spaces to put engineering on display.

In the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell, Russell and George has designed a physiotherapy studio that challenges the idea of cold medical spaces and aims to speed up the rehabilitation process through colour.

Baumgart Clark Architects has created an office environment in Melbourne that exudes gravitas and dignity, but also prioritizes wireless and paperless technology.

In Melbourne’s prestigious suburb of Armadale, Jason M. Jones and Brahman Perera have created a Parisian-inspired wine bar that is about “making a special occasion of every day.”

In country Victoria, Hecker Guthrie has created a fifty-eight-room hotel on a winery estate with a rich architectural pedigree.

In Melbourne’s Docklands, DKO Architecture has designed an understated and elegant hotel that delivers an experience for guests that feels at one with the real world just outside its doors.

The sturdy blockwork and steel-framed windows of this mid-century industrial building in Melbourne give little clue to its rich history, but Wolveridge Architects has celebrated its past in a reimagined coworking space.

Neighbouring the serious Ernst and Young tower in Melbourne’s CBD, Vacation Cafe designed by Therefore occupies the streetscape like a kid in a rainbow parachute jacket among a sea of suits. It exudes a relaxed playfulness laced with eighties childhood nostalgia.

Sibling Architecture strikes a good balance between function and delight in this accessible home office in inner-city Melbourne.

In country Victoria, Six Degrees Architects has created six guest suites that reflect Brae restaurant’s passion for local character and flavour.

At Tarrawarra Estate in the Yarra Valley, Kerstin Thompson Architects uses a “spatial negative” as a delicate counterpoint to the two architectural structures this cellar door sits between – one by Graeme Gunn, the other by Allan Powell.

Inspired by the neurological phenomenon of synaesthesia, where one sense can be stimulated by another, IF Architecture has given famed Melbourne restaurant Cutler & Co. a “creamy and crunchy” new fitout.

DesignOffice has teamed up with the owners of famed Melbourne cafes Top Paddock and The Kettle Black to turn a cavernous former power station into a refined and welcoming all-day dining venue in the CBD.

Inspired by the Memphis Group, architect Adriana Hanna uses playful colour and sharp shapes to create a Melbourne hair salon that’s a cut above the rest.