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Moffat Morphing House / Arcke

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000

One block back from the surf break at Moffat Heads, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, this compact (75m² internal area) home inhabits the rear of a classic beach shack. Inspired by our clients' passion for camping, entertaining, and being outdoors, Moffat Morphing House was conceptualised as a sustainable, small-footprint house for a couple to enjoy in their semi-retirement.

The Glasshouse Theater / Blight Rayner Architecture + Snøhetta

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:00:00 +0000

Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC) new Glasshouse Theater in South Bank is a sight to behold, defined by its rippling glass façade and its ambition to reframe how a major cultural building engages with the city. Designed by Blight Rayner Architecture in partnership with Snøhetta, the 1,500-seat venue makes QPAC the largest performing arts centre under one roof in the country and capable of presenting world-class ballet, dance, symphony, opera, theater, and musicals to the same standard. Blight Rayner and Snøhetta won the international design competition for the project in May 2019. The brief had allowed for the building to cantilever some six meters out on its two street frontages in order to fit the required size onto the site, over the preexisting Playhouse Green.

How to Design with the Rain: Architectural Strategies for Rainwater Collection across Climates

Olivia Poston — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:30:00 +0000

As climate variability intensifies, extreme storms are becoming more frequent in some regions while water scarcity deepens in others. Architects are increasingly pressed to reconsider how buildings engage with rainfall as an environmental force and a design resource. How can architecture move beyond shedding the excess water to actively collect, store, and reuse it? What would it mean to treat rainwater as a material that shapes resilient and meaningful spaces?

Plant Futures Facility - The University of Queensland / m3architecture

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The Plant Futures Facility supports research into sustainable food, fibre, and fuel production in response to climate change and population growth. Defined as a "walled garden," the building's concept reflects its typology and context—crafted from brick in a pixilated pattern referencing Queensland's geological cross-section. From a distance, it reads as a stone wall; up close, it reveals a finely articulated façade. Internally, light and colour, combined with mirrored paneling, reflect the environmental controls of grow rooms, subtly distorting. perception and experience. The facility is both a high-performance research tool and a contextual, culturally resonant architectural statement.

Blok Three Sisters House / Blok Modular + Vokes and Peters

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 03:00:00 +0000

The collaboration between Blok and Vokes & Peters culminates in the completion of a trio of modular beach houses, elegantly crafted for three sisters whose fond memories of holidaying at this site trace back to their teenage years. Designed with equal frontage to ensure equity and harmony, each house features a central garden that is open to the sky, infusing the elongated, narrow floor plan with light, air, and a touch of greenery.

River Hearth House / Arcke

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The riverfront project was conceived as a cluster of intimate permeable fragmented forms, gathered around the original brick fireplace. It serves as a physical and metaphorical hearth and creates a soulful connection to both place and previous occupation. This has provided a crafted counterpoint to the more singular river view.

Coolamon House / DFJ Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The site’s breathtaking hinterland and coastal views deserve a remarkable home created with a palette of quality materials. Brass, concrete, and local blackbutt were chosen for their graceful weathering processes, each requiring a high level of detailing to celebrate their rawness and simplicity.

From Red to Green: The Contradictory Aesthetics of Oxidized Facades

Eduardo Souza — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 07:30:00 +0000

For a small child, understanding the concept of time and its passage is very difficult. As a result, children are often impatient when expecting something or confused when trying to remember something from the past. They live in the present, and learn the notion of time only little by little. But accepting the passage of time, and the reality of aging, is something that plagues us even as adults. The lucrative cosmetic and plastic surgery industries show how humanity seeks to control or deny the passage of time, an urge that has proved to be relentless.

Stafford Vet Hospital / Vokes and Peters

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000

The Stafford Vet Hospital is a world-class specialist veterinary facility operated by Queensland Veterinary Specialists and Pet ER, offering both elective and emergency patient care. As well as promoting animal welfare, the wellness of clients and staff is equally considered in the design of the hospital. Good clinical work is delivered when people feel healthy, professional and happy. This is the principal role of architecture in this setting.

24 Indoor Pools: Bringing the Tranquility of Water to Interior Spaces

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Within architecture, water evokes sentiments of calmness and wellbeing. The element has influenced design through its dynamic and fluid nature. With recent technological advances, architects have created some of the most strategic, innovative, and unexpected intersections of design and H2O.

Live Work Share House / Bligh Graham Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

The LiveWorkShare House proposes a typology that enables sensitive densification of the Australian suburbs above latitude 30°S. It sits between the scale of a detached house and low-rise attached housing on a standard narrow block. Addressing the post-Covid boom in working from home and the current housing crisis, it is comprised of a house, a small commercial office, and a self-contained flat - each with independent entries, privacy, and a strong connection to gardens.

From Tiny Squares to Urban Parks: 100 Public Spaces From All Around the World

María Francisca González — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 07:30:00 +0000

The key to successfully designing or recovering public spaces is to achieve a series of ingredients that enhance their use as meeting places. Regardless of their scale, some important tips are designing for people's needs, the human scale, a mix of uses, multifunctionality and flexibility, comfort and safety, and integration to the urban fabric.

To give you some ideas on how to design urban furniture, bus stops, lookouts, bridges, playgrounds, squares, sports spaces, small parks, and urban parks, check out these 100 notable public spaces.

Sunrise Studio / Bark Design Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Bark Architects designed Sunrise Studio as a small tree house with big views. It recedes into and embraces the surrounding bush landscape whilst embracing its expansive coastal views over the Pacific Ocean. This two-bedroom studio is for our client’s daughter and grandson to live connected to family but with privacy and their own secluded space. It is a separate dwelling sited adjacent to an original Quadroped house designed by Gabriel Poole in 1983. Gabriel Poole (1934–2020) was a celebrated Queensland architect known for innovative residential projects and pioneering low-cost, prefabricated designs.

The Eaves Commercial Center / bureau^proberts

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 23:00:00 +0000

The Eaves' – a civic heart for Brisbane's West Village - bureau^proberts has designed a civic heart for Brisbane’s evolving West Village precinct with 'The Eaves', a new three-storey commercial building featuring a striking bespoke clay façade. Skillfully melding built form and landscape, the project demonstrates how retail developments can go beyond the ordinary to enhance a sense of place. bureau^proberts Creative Director Liam Proberts says the design is as much about the building’s perimeter, as it is about the building itself. “West Village isn’t the model of big box retail in the suburbs; it’s a lively communal and commercial hub in an existing high street,” Liam says. “We wanted ‘The Eaves’ to contribute to that dynamic streetscape and fulfill a significant role as a civic connector.”

Witta Circle House / Shaun Lockyer Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Project Description - Witta is a heavily landscaped, waterfront, courtyard house that mediates between the opportunities (and constraints) of a site that has its aspect and view on opposing edges. The “C” plan is the intuitive manifestation of this challenge, with the southern edge of the “C”, a transparent, light-filled pavilion offering a transparent and connected to the water’s edge. The concrete skeleton provides a robust base to the charred timber cap that expresses itself as a “shoji” screen to the north, while the southern edge is defined by a landscaped “fringe” that adorns the house. This is a house of two personalities, with an introverted street facade and an extroverted relationship to the Noosa River. The materials, form, skylights, and planning all center and celebrate the sense of being riverfront and how best to engage with it in a casual, enduring way.

SAOIR House / refresh*design

Hana Abdel — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Saoir is a luxury residence formed around an existing workers' cottage in a vibrant inner-city suburb of Brisbane. Located on a small 256 m2 inner-city lot with overlooking neighbors and limited access to sunlight the project maximizes its connection to the outdoors whilst maintaining privacy and access to light, air and breezes – creating a residence perfectly suited for the Brisbane subtropical climate.

University of Queensland Andrew N. Liveris Building / Lyons + m3architecture

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 22:00:00 +0000

Lyons + m3architecture won the competition to design the new Andrew N. Liveris Building, which includes significant space assigned for the School of Chemical Engineering. The design concept focuses on creating a physical environment and identity that will allow the School to reinforce its distinctive strengths – outwardly open and transparent, and inwardly intense and focused.

Timbin House / Conrad Gargett

Hana Abdel — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Drawn to the extensive vegetation rather than the views of the ocean, the client’s brief asked for an experience “like camping amongst the trees, but without the tent”. Rather than optimizing views to the ocean that may be lost over time as the foreshore vegetation matures, this home is thoughtfully woven between the existing stand of Brushbox trees on the site. By retaining as many trees as possible, the light-filled and open upper-level living spaces are connected to the canopy.