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Branch Studio Architects creates piazza-style school office in Melbourne

October 14, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Piazza Dell'Ufficio office designed by Branch Studio Architects

Italian town squares became Branch Studio Architects’ point of reference for the design of this school administration office in Melbourne, which is almost entirely lined in cardboard tubes. Caroline Chisholm College is located in Melbourne’s Braybrook suburb and had previously played host to a “highly inefficient” administration office that had a rabbit-warren of dark workspaces.

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This New House Covered With Shingles Adds Some Woodly Charm To The Street

September 16, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by Ben Hosking Mani Architecture has designed a modern cottage-like house in Melbourne, Australia, that’s covered in wood shingles. The house, which sits on a thin narrow lot, has a front garden with a built-in table and benches. Photography by Ben Hosking Inside the front door, there’s two separate entrances. The first leads to […]

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Studio Esteta designs Via Porta cafe in Melbourne to look like an Italian street

August 25, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Via Porta cafe in Melbourne by Studio Esteta

Plaster surfaces and paved stone floors feature inside this deli-cum-cafe in Melbourne, which Studio Esteta’s co-director has designed to reflect her Italian roots. Via Porta, which incorporates a deli, cafe and dining room, is the brainchild of Studio Esteta’s co-director, Sarah Cosentino, and her three brothers. Together they wanted to create a family-run venue that

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Matt Gibson extends Melbourne terrace with glazed kitchen undercroft

August 23, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
North Melbourne Terrace, Melbourne, Australia, by Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Matt Gibson Architecture + Design has adapted a heritage-listed Victorian house in Melbourne by “weaving” a modern programme into the existing red-brick shell. The studio has refurbished a 19th century house and added a two-storey rear extension made from brick and glass. The home been longlisted in this year’s Dezeen Awards in the Residential rebirth category.

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Lovell Burton uses agricultural materials for shed-style Australian house

August 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Springhill House, Springhill, Australia, by Lovell Burton Architecture

Architecture studio Lovell Burton has referenced surrounding hay sheds to create a house clad in galvanised steel panels on an agricultural paddock north west of Melbourne. Designed for an author seeking a change from inner-city life, the architecture studio created Springhill House as a rural retreat and place for reflection. The house has been longlisted for

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Layan wraps Light House in a screen of illuminated metal discs

August 1, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Light House by Layan in Melbourne, Australia

A dynamic screen of illuminated, rotating polycarbonate discs shield the upper level of this home in Melbourne, completed by Layan for the director of local lighting design practice The Flaming Beacon. Layan has extended and renovated a heritage-protected worker’s cottage to create Light House. The Melbourne studio added new spaces to the rear and above the original structure

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This Modern House Addition Showcases The Ceiling Height With Tall Windows

July 29, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by UA Creative LSA Architects has designed a house addition for an original Victorian home in Melbourne, Australia. A path, surrounded by landscaping, leads from the gate to the black front door of the original home. Photography by UA Creative Sight lines were introduced to capture the views of the pool and garden from […]

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Adam Wright-Smith designs Melbourne restaurant around “sense of adventure”

July 26, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Half Acre Melbourne

Australian chef Adam Wright-Smith has turned an old mill in Melbourne into a restaurant spread across a set of formerly industrial buildings with a central kitchen at its heart. Half Acre is designed by the local chef, who took on the industrial plot in the south of the Australian city for the restaurant project. The site

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Writer’s Shed is a tiny garden studio in Melbourne covered in ivy

July 23, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Writer's Shed by Matt Gibson

Ivy creates a green camouflage across the walls of this garden studio, designed by Melbourne architect Matt Gibson for a writer based in the city. Writer’s Shed is tucked into the corner of the garden at the writer’s home, in Melbourne’s suburban southeast. Taking up just 10 square metres, the small building offers its owner

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Lovell Burton completes spacious Barwon Heads House for retired couple

July 15, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Barwon Heads House designed by Lovell Burton

Thick green brush nearly conceals the slanted roof of this house near Melbourne, which architecture studio Lovell Burton has created for a retired couple and their extended family. The house is situated just 100 metres off the beach in the coastal town of Barwon Heads and has been designed by Lovell Burton to accommodate a

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