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South Yarra House extension designed to look like a treehouse

March 23, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
South Yarra House by AM Architecture exterior

Plants are expected to grow up the sides of this treehouse-inspired house extension in Melbourne, by AM Architecture. The two-storey South Yarra House extension creates a new master bedroom and living spaces for a heritage cottage close to the Yarra River. Clad in copper, the top half of the structure is designed to look like a

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OMA unveils rural culture complex for Melbourne’s outskirts

March 19, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Wollert Neighbourhood Centre by OMA

A mix of retail and cultural facilities will make up the Wollert Neighbourhood Centre, which OMA has proposed for the town of Whittlesey, Australia. The countryside complex has been designed by OMA as a “social condenser” for the area, which is located 25-kilometres north of Melbourne. OMA founder Rem Koolhaas recently curated an exhibition aiming

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Brick and copper turrets define Melbourne house by Wowowa

March 3, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Merri Creek House by Wowowa

Australian architecture studio Wowowa built three cylindrical brick turrets with copper accents for a house in Melbourne. Located in suburb of Fitzroy North the home, called Merri Creek House after a nearby waterway, references its surroundings. “Monumental turrets reference geometric farm relics and tall brick water structures, an obsession shared by both Wowowa and the

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Make Architects completes dramatic arched link for Chadstone shopping centre

February 28, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
The Link by Make Architects in Melbourne, Australia

The Link is a rib-vaulted timber passageway built between the Chadstone shopping centre and its neighbours by Make Architects in Melboune. The Link docks to the existing arched fibreglass roof of the Chadstone, which claims to be the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere. Supported by a steel foundations and a structure of white

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Double-height extension brings light to Melbourne’s Lantern House

February 27, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Lantern House by Timmins+Whyte Architects

Architecture practice Timmins + Whyte has added a double-height gabled extension to a 19th-century house in Melbourne, illuminating its formerly light-starved living spaces. Originally built in 1876, Lantern House formerly had a dark and poky interior that meant its owners – a young couple with two children and a dog – were longing for a

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Reddaway Architects adds timber extension to Melbourne home

February 26, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Carlton House by Reddaway Architects in Melbourne, Australia

A folding screen of battens shields a timber-clad extension to an Edwardian-style home in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton North, Australia, designed by Reddaway Architects. The building, which used to be a school in 1942, has a narrow gabled frontage of red brick. It had undergone numerous alterations in the intervening years, and local heritage

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Biasol uses green tones for update of Melbourne’s Main Street cafe

January 29, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Main Street cafe in Melbourne, designed by Biasol

Monochrome tiles and rich-green fixtures pervade this much-loved neighbourhood cafe in Melbourne, which has been revamped by Australian design studio Biasol. Serving up coffee, cocktails and a range of dishes that draw from global cuisines, Main Street has been a go-to dining spot for residents of Melbourne’s Mordialloc suburb for over a decade. Biasol was

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Tom Blachford turns Melbourne into a nocturnal “cyperpunk metropolis”

December 20, 2019 India Block 0
Melbourne by Tom Blachford

Photographer Tom Blachford has used extended exposure times and lens rotation to create an upside-down “impossible dystopia” from Melbourne’s nighttime skyline. Perching 55 storeys in the sky, Blachford took the photos from a carefully chosen rooftop in central Melbourne. The set of mind-bending inverted images were taken in situ, using camera tricks rather than post-processing

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Mim Design uses perforated metal to brighten Melbourne construction office

December 3, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Cobild Office by Mim Design

Perforated metal screens, glass walls and an open-plan layout help to maximise light throughout this Melbourne office, which has been overhauled by Mim Design. Located in the small inner-city suburb of Cremorne, this office interior was created by Mim Design for Melbourne building company Cobild. The construction specialists asked the local design studio to create

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Glenn Murcutt unveils minimal MPavilion topped with linear “lantern” roof

November 12, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
MPavilion 2019 by Glenn Murcutt in Melbourne, Australia

A slender, translucent roof overhangs this year’s MPavilion, which Australian architect Glenn Murcutt has installed in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. Pritzker Prize-winning Murcutt has designed the sixth annual summer commission, which was unveiled in Melbourne today. This year’s MPavilion is described as a “sleek and adaptable” shelter that rests lightly on the landscape. It is

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