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Arcadia

Notions of home are as much a projection of our dreams and memories as they are the bricks and linen cupboards that anchor them. Tangled in the sheets of inner-urban Melbourne, Arcadia is a fever dream of pastoral histories.

Vivarium

In time this house will be consumed by its gardens. Already the buzz of pollination fills the air: bees, blowies and butterflies. Nestled between three native crops, nature has the jump start.

Sunday

Sunday is a home for physical and psychological well-being, providing a diversity of spaces where occupants can always find a place of comfort: social spaces and private spaces; generous spaces and intimate spaces; spaces to gather and spaces to retreat.

Yarra Ranges SDS

Celebrating ability! Our team has developed a tailored consultation process with the school and its community in order to ensure the specialist pedagogical needs of students and staff are met and exceeded.

Brandon Park Primary School

Inside, the gymnasium’s large timber trusses and lofty daylighting lend drama and occasion to sports games and school gatherings.

South Oakleigh College

Architecture architecture was the principal consultant for the South Oakleigh College masterplan, with the science building as the first stage of its transformation.

Mess Hall

Whether you’re hosting a recital in the parlour, a hands-on art workshop in the garden studio, a reading in the main hall, or gathering loved ones for an intimate meal around the kitchen island, Mess Hall’s mobile furniture supports seamless adaptation to a wide range of activities.

A Periscope

A periscope, washed-up on the beach. The oceans must be full of them and yet this is quite unexpected: half buried with its ends poking out like a happy seaworm, chatting to its tail. The tides have washed it crystalline; mirrors bend the light to fill its buried chambers. A single sunlit passage, coursing through the sand.

Park Life

Curious neighbours slow their cars. From between the trees across a vast nature strip, a fence-like shed with a cyclops eye peers back at them. ‘Whose world is this?’ they ask.

Nightingale Village, Urban Coup

Beyond the scope of a typical housing development, Urban Coup includes communal kitchen and dining facilities, workshop spaces, a yoga room, music room and productive rooftop gardens. It is the first vertical community of its kind in Australia.

School Playgrounds

Rolling. Jumping. Climbing. Swinging. Digging. Playgrounds are empires of imagination and exploration, realms far from the strictures of the classroom.

South Oakleigh College

Architecture architecture has delivered a state-of-the-art gymnasium for South Oakleigh College, seamlessly integrating with existing school buildings while strengthening connections between indoor sports and outdoor recreation.

Norwood

Upholstered banquettes, window seating and kitchen benches line the living space, freeing-up the centre for a generous island bench and built-in table. Everything feels integrated, fitting together like a three-dimensional jigsaw.

Silver Lining

If every storm cell has a silver lining, it’s that the girls have tired of sodden socks and finally agreed to join us up here in our fancy new living room. The fridge is here too, which can’t have hurt. From where I’m sitting, I can see the weather overhead through the high window. I can also see across the park to where a young family are stranded on the play equipment. If they could get themselves afloat on one of those bright plastic tubes, I reckon I could chuck a rope over and pull them in.

Mount Martha House

Finally emerging, a full and sparkling view of the bay in brightest blue, and a garden courtyard flanked by chambers of quiet retreat. Through open doorways, whispers of shifting blankets and turning pages wash with the shush of the tides.

Periwinkle

The common periwinkle (or winkle) is a robust intra-warehouse species within the renovation family, characterised by a mostly neutral shell with rosy flourishes about the inner-ablution.

Park Street

The two-storey brick podium references the heritage of the local streetscape in material, detail and composition, while the upper levels are setback from the street and consist of a more recessive material palette.

Parasol

Everywhere you look a grove of trees and a shady deck. A deck out the front, a deck out the back and a deck in the middle. Decks for eating, decks for dancing, decks for love stories and daydreaming.

Together Apart

Where once they shared a womb, now they share a room; twin girls needing their own space, yet wanting to stay close too.

The Picador

Finding no bull and no audience he begins to dance, lunging and dodging imaginary foes, gripping a lance in each hand.

Lawnbowl Village

Two of the three towers contain high quality, affordable apartments, while the third tower houses a childcare centre, a theatre, art gallery, bookshop, cafes, makerspaces and co-working spaces.

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Compact robes and clever storage solutions are integrated with a fold-out bed and a handsome full-height curtain, creating the flexibility to quickly convert the single-room space from a study to a bedroom to a dining room or party space.

RMIT Business Behavioural Lab

RMIT engaged Architecture architecture to design and deliver the fitout of new facilities for the Business Behavioural Lab. The brief required a thorough understanding of the stakeholders’ needs in order to deliver a laboratory where academics undertake controlled behavioural experiments with verifiable results.

Monash Study Spaces

Through a series of modifications and upgrades, concerns of safety, comfort, amenity, well-being and identity have been addressed, making services more readily accessible and functional for the student body.

Jells Park Primary School

Architecture architecture was engaged by Jells Park Primary School to lend a little love to a pair of worn-out portables, making them feel as special and welcoming as any other building in the school. When the semi-temporary becomes semi-permanent, it’s time for a spruce.

Yarra Ranges SDS

The Senior School Wing fosters a sense of independence for the senior students and signals their transition into life beyond school.

RMIT City Campus

Within this environment of high spatial drama, terraced seating and planting establish inviting human-scaled amphitheatres.

The Scoop

In the heart of the student campus is a crypt of unrealised grandeur. Once an underground carpark, its sweeping field of parabolic vaults promises so much more. Raw concrete arcs out of the ground in defiance of gravity, an expression of aspiration and daring.

Paul Couch, field studies

The book focuses on four major residential projects spanning the breadth of Couch’s career, from his own family home in 1975, to the Kew House completed in 2019. Each of the four projects is represented by Couch’s original hand drawings, a written essay and a photo essay. In addition, accompanying extracts from a series of interviews introduce the reader to Couch’s voice, distilling the ideas, images, memories and dreams that animate his aspirations for architecture.

Bookshop by Uro

The scent of a new book is the scent of ideas unfolding. Bookshops are laden with it, new bookshops all the more so; binding glues and inks washed through with notes of fresh cut timber and a lick of paint.

White rabbit, white rabbit

A white, empty display cabinet contains a virtual reproduction of the same white, empty display cabinet just out of reach. An alternate reality so close to our own, beyond the looking glass.

Hawthorn Sports Pavilion

The Hawthorn Sports Pavilion required an upgrade to allow more user groups to comfortably and safely use the facility. Much needed changes included the incorporation of female friendly facilities, disability access and improved wayfinding.

Among Buildings

The culmination of 3 years of wandering around significant Melbourne buildings and reflects on the immaterial experiences of the built environment.

Stage Left

Stage Left is a place of anticipation and reflection; a place to gather and collect with friends and ideas, before and after a show. The prologue and the epilogue. A natural extension of the Arts Centre Melbourne experience.

Chinese Medicine Clinic

This Chinese Medicine Clinic provides place of welcome and comfort for patients requiring respite from their busy lives with a design that is simple, open and unpretentious.

The Drift

The Drift proposes that there is no audience, only participants. There is no object, and there is no center. Instead a field of scattered Seeds, wired for networked discussion, where ideas may blow-in from any corner of the garden.

Nightingale Housing

Nightingale revolutionizes multi-residential development by establishing a freely available, cost-transparent, open-source model in which designers work directly with purchasers, for the purposes of creating environmentally, socially and financially sustainable homes.

Unliveable Berlin

With its chequered history of cultural exclusion and ideological seclusion, as well as an impressive record of refugee accommodation, Berlin presents a unique case study in the urban consequences of social disunity and cohesion.