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Ramsden House / James Harbard Architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Ramsden is a home for a young family assembled from fragments of memory. The design was heavily influenced by The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald, a reflective travelogue with no conventional plot, yet densely layered with personal and international histories. The work reveals the complexity and disorder inherent in individual relationships to history, culture, and the past.

Hawthorn Hood House / BENT Architecture

Hana Abdel — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The Hawthorn Hood clients (a couple of professionals with primary school-aged twins) approached our studio to design a renovation extension for a house that they occupied in a neighboring suburb. It became apparent, through early investigations, that the resultant design would likely be heavily compromised due to a number of inherent limitations in the house and site, the most significant being the solar orientation of the allotment.

Fitzroy Bridge House / Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Fitzroy Bridge House involves the conversion of a terrace house graded individually significant in the South Fitzroy Heritage Precinct. Containing a chequered history, the dwelling resides at the end of a terrace row of 4 with a block of flats to its north side. Designed for a young family whose vision for the house was strongly tied to the history of the original building, the resulting conversion celebrates the legacy of the site & surrounds, preserving authenticity with creative adaptations that enable responsive family living on a challenging site.

Gallery of the Saints Mausoleum Extension / BENT Architecture

Hana Abdel — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 22:00:00 +0000

The Gallery of the Saints Mausoleum Extension forms a site-specific, engaging and respectful memorial structure where space, culture and belief are formative in the experience of emotional healing. The design approach draws on the experiences of the preceding Mausoleum stages at Keilor whilst offering an innovative, first-principles interpretation of site and program in order to create a purposeful, contemporary Mausoleum of the highest quality, which has been embraced by the local community and vitally linked to its natural surrounds.

Bellbrae House / Wiesebrock Architecture

Paula Pintos — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 01:00:00 +0000

The Bellbrae House, located in Bellbrae, is the realisation of a dream forever home that would serve its owners, and on occasion their extended family, as they enjoy their retirement years in this peaceful spot between Torquay and Anglesea along Victoria's rugged surf coast.

Seddon House / Clinton Murray Architects

Hana Abdel — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 23:00:00 +0000

We call Jo and Lincoln’s house, ‘the goldmine’. They bought the property in the late 90s for about $50 off Giuseppe and Francesca fleeing for Bulleen and now they can’t move for boutique wine bars. The house when they bought it was falling down and so in stepped in Lincoln’s dodgy mate to build. 20 years on they bore the fruit of that labour, the extension was demolishing itself at a leisurely pace.

North Melbourne Terrace / Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Valeria Silva — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 01:00:00 +0000

North Melbourne Terrace is the story of an existing inner city A1 listed Victorian Terrace house that had been virtually unaltered since it was built. As with all Victorian Terrace housing, the typology was extremely effective at providing consolidated high density housing in London and many other ‘Victorian’ cities but whose sense of enclosure and lower quality ‘piggy back’ structures mean they are prone to adaptation and (especially in warmer climate countries such as ours) opening up to a more flexible living programs.

Werribee Mausoleum Extension / BENT Architecture

Andreas Luco — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:00:00 +0000

This recent expansion of the Werribee Mausoleum creates 170 new resting places for deceased loved-ones in the Werribee cemetery. The project comprises two distinct structures; a new garden Mausoleum to the east of the original building, containing 140 outward-facing crypts (doubling the original capacity); and a series of Family Mausolea to the west of the original building, comprising four intimate family rooms and chapels which accommodate five or ten resting places each. The new additions flank the original structure designed by BAU and expanded on the symbolism and monumentality of the original design. The dramatic Corbusian pre-cast roof form is extended over the new additions, but a space is reserved between new and existing at ground level; a punctuation mark.

Dairy House / Dan Gayfer Design

Andreas Luco — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 19:00:00 +0000

A 125-year old brick dairy has been carefully integrated into the design, supporting a new first floor whose structural steel extends beyond the building defining an outdoor terrace below. The original facade of the dairy sits in the foreground bringing a unique yet charming character to the building's architecture.

Wellington St Mixed Use / Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Paula Pintos — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 03:00:00 +0000

An open minded client approached us with the opportunity to renew an awkward, narrow & underutilised infill site in inner Melbourne. Located on a strip zoned as business opposite a freeway at one end and in-tact lower rise residential fabric at the other, the brief called for an adaptable building model housing domestic accommodation along with the municipal requirement for business on one or more levels. The clients - a property industry professional and interior designer who live here with their 2 adult children & partners and a young daughter - saw it as an opportunity to embrace inner city living &challenge the traditional ‘quarter acre block’ housing typology in Australia that they had come from to provide a flexible platform to house a multi-generational household and commercial use on the ground level.

Trinity College Theological School Extensions / Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design

Diego Hernández — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Trinity College is one of the foundation residential colleges at the University of Melbourne. It has an eclectic collection of nineteenth and twentieth century buildings set within a beautiful landscape. The Theological School occupies the former Wardens Lodge in the south west corner of the campus facing Royal Parade. The project involved the refurbishment of the existing building plus a new pavilion extension. The original residence was designed by McGlashan Everist Architects in 1960. It has adapted well to the new educational use with little change to the layout of rooms. Bedrooms became offices and living spaces became teaching rooms. The residence has a formal rectangular plan with a large internal courtyard onto which all rooms face. It is a fine example of the architecture of the period with a simple modern aesthetic. It is a very modest and private building, which is largely hidden from view by an established layered landscape of hedges and large trees.