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Shand Road Townhouse / Ys Housing

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Housing
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Melbourne, Australia
  • Architects: Ys Housing
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  562 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2025
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Architectural Window Systems, Bluescope Steel, Havwoods
  • Professionals: Fornido, nohLa

Palace Coffee / Kerry Kounnapis Architecture Practice

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Coffee Shop
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Melbourne, Australia

More Architecture for Less: SSdH and the Latent Potential of Existing Buildings

Amid growing recognition of architecture's responsibility toward environmental and planetary ecologies, contemporary practice is increasingly oriented toward working with what already exists—its material, spatial, and historical conditions. Within this shift, architecture and design aesthetics are increasingly about reshaping inherited environments. This approach underpins the work of SSdH, a Melbourne-based architecture practice founded in 2020 by Todd de Hoog, Harrison Smart, and Jean-Marie Spencer. Working across scales of renovation, extension, and adaptive insertion, the studio consistently engages existing buildings as active agents. Winner of the ArchDaily 2025 Next Practices Awards, the Australian firm foregrounds environmental responsibility, material economy, and collaborative processes grounded in site-specific conditions.

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9 Wilson Ave Apartment / MA+Co + Neometro

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Apartments
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Melbourne, Australia

Studley Grounds / SSdH

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Pavilion
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Melbourne, Australia
  • Architects: SSdH
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  115 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2022
  • Professionals: Wilderness Build Co

Kerr Apartment / SSdH

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Apartments, Adaptive reuse
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Melbourne, Australia
  • Architects: SSdH
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  100 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2022
  • Professionals: Bluline Projects, SSdH

Stack & Field House / Steffen Welsch Architects

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Houses
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Melbourne, Australia
  • Architects: Steffen Welsch Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  162 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2025
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Artedomus, Colorbond, Dulux, Fytogreen, Knauf, +4

Suupaa Restaurant and Convenience Store / IF Architecture

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Restaurant, Grocery Store
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Melbourne, Australia
  • Architects: IF Architecture
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  176 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2025

Around the Bend / Nigel Grigg Architects

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Houses
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Melbourne, Australia
  • Architects: Nigel Grigg Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  280 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2022
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Lysaght

House in a Garden / Edition Office

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Houses, Sustainability
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Melbourne, Australia

Northcote House / LLDS

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Houses, Sustainability
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Melbourne, Australia
  • Architects: LLDS
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2023
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Duravit, Fisher & Paykel, Light Co., Thermogroup, ABI Interiors, +24

LPS Residence / Davidov Architects

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Houses
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Melbourne, Australia
  • Architects: Davidov Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  450 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2022

Barkly House / Ha Architecture

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Houses
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Melbourne, Australia

A House To Gather / Sibling Architecture

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Houses, Renovation, Sustainability
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Melbourne, Australia
  • Architects: Sibling Architecture
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2025
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Big River Group, Cork, Dulux, Kayo Brick, Laminex, +1
  • Professionals: Vhaus, Flowerspike, Contegrity

West Gate Tunnel / Wood Marsh

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Infrastructure
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Melbourne, Australia
  • Architects: Wood Marsh
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2025

St Kilda Residence / ADDARC

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Houses, Sustainability
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Melbourne, Australia

Haka House / Taouk Architects

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Houses
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Melbourne, Australia
  • Architects: Taouk Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  340 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2024

Thornbury House / Healy Ryan Architects

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Houses, Renovation, Extension
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Melbourne, Australia
  • Architects: Healy Ryan Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  165 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2024