In an age when social media emphasises image – which in turn encourages consumption, size and excess – the Lean-2 house by Ben Callery Architects celebrates modesty of scale, quality of space, and simplicity of materials. We all know the classic Australian lean-to: three walls and a single pitched roof abutting a taller existing building as […]
Conrad Architects has opened the doors to its new office premises in the Melbourne suburb of Cremorne, reimagining a raw commercial building as a creative workspace that reflects the practice’s considered methodology and its director’s reverence for fine art. With architect becoming client, the project provided an opportunity to realise an uncompromised vision. Embracing the […]
Faced with the constraints of a very small inner city site with an unfavourable orientation, Sibling designed a house that’s part residential façade, part Swiss Army knife. The Veil house by Melbourne architecture collective Sibling is a truly small-scale intervention. Located among the Victorian terrace houses of Melbourne’s inner north, its design is centred on […]
The Coppin Street apartments, dubbed the “Richmond six-pack”, reinterpret the 60s era, predominantly three-storey, brick apartments dispersed throughout inner Melbourne. Richmond, to the east of the Melbourne CBD and adjacent to significant parkland and sporting precincts, is undergoing considerable urban transformation through large-scale residential developments along major transport links. This project site, however, is set […]