Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity: Jackson Clements Burrows Architects

The University of Melbourne’s New Student Precinct (NSP) is not an unfamiliar place for Melburnians, particularly, among architects. It holds ground as a dynamic towering addition to the university’s rich heritage campus in Parkville, however, very few are familiar with what once occupied this site.

NOMA Residences: Plus Architecture

Home, for the occupants of NOMA Residences by Plus Architecture is grounded in the community of Mosman Park. The design centres on the connection to neighbours and creates an opportunity for friendly interaction.

NELP Bulleen Park & Ride: Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design with GHD & CPB

Anyone who has passed the new freeway interchange in Bulleen near Heide Museum of Modern Art will be shocked by the amount of new infrastructure works that are occurring. It is an other-worldly dystopia, evoking feelings of a concrete Mad Max scene of gigantic machinery, and what appears
to be a village of portables and temporary fencing.

Boola Katitjin: Lyons with Silver Thomas Hanley, Officer Woods, The Fulcrum Agency and Aspect Studios

With game design or information systems alongside or replacing traditional subjects such as anthropology and history, expanding multiple campuses and online offerings, contemporary university architecture has become expressive of these shifts.

Wattleseed: Scott and Ryland Architects

Wattleseed is a collaboration between Scott and Ryland Architects, Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney Community Greening, IndigiGrow, Taronga Zoo, Powerhouse Museum and Western Sydney University. The design draws on existing Biophilic design and Living Future Institute research and aims to facilitate environmental education through the retrofit of early childhood centres.

Gore Street Apartment: Rebecca Lewis

I was 26 when I bought my apartment. Young, inexperienced, green as an olive. I had been house-hunting for nine months when I stepped inside the 1960s Gore Street apartment.

Sonny’s: Design Theory

Nestled within tall tuart trees off a bustling strip, Sonny’s, with its articulately curated wine list, is Mount Hawthorn’s newest neighbourhood bar brought forth by passionate hospitality veterans Jess and Aaron, crafted by Design Theory.

Wangaratta District Specialist School: Sibling Architecture

The recent addition to the Wangaratta District Specialist School’s ageing buildings from the 1980s and mostly relocatable classrooms, provided an opportunity for Sibling Architecture to design for wellbeing through creating tactile and tranquil spaces in a new learning hub.

NextSense: WMK Architecture

The NextSense centre for innovation at Macquarie University by WMK Architecture has opened heralding a new era for hearing and vision loss in Australia.

His Majesty’s Theatre – Balcony reconstruction: Griffiths Architects

Located in Perth’s west end on Hay Street, His Majesty’s Theatre’s immediate context includes many former showrooms and offices from the early twentieth century. Like almost all Perth buildings, the theatre balconies were removed via a 1947 Act of Parliament enforced in 1953 and replaced with a simple awning, in common with many Perth and Fremantle buildings. In a touch of irony, COVID-19 recovery funds made the reconstruction of the balconies by Griffiths Architects possible, and they opened with huge fanfare in February 2023.