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Branch Studio Architects designs student welfare space for Melbourne college

October 17, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Branch Studio Architects has created a dusty-pink student welfare centre at an all-boys school in Melbourne to provide a space for discussing mental health. Marcellin College principal Marco Di Cesare saw a need to offer a space where students could come together and seek help for mental health issues, particularly after Australia’s state of Victoria

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Architecture Architecture uses grey breeze blocks for Melbourne extension

October 10, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Hollow breeze-block walls were used to blend interior and exterior spaces in Sunday, a reimagining of a typical cottage in Melbourne, Australia, designed by local studio Architecture Architecture. The home, called Sunday, occupies a compact, 175-square-metre site in the suburb of Fitzroy. The renovation retained the house’s existing frontage and veranda due to heritage requirements.

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Austin Maynard Architects adds five gardens to Melbourne terrace house

October 5, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

An “urban farm” rooftop garden, planted terraces and a fish-pond atrium characterise this renovated house in Melbourne, designed by Austin Maynard Architects. Named Helvetia, the Victorian terrace house located in the inner-city suburb of Fitzroy, was renovated with a focus on retaining and reusing materials while providing new spaces for nature. The studio told Dezeen that

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Sawtooth roof animates Melbourne apartment block by Six Degrees Architects

September 26, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A sawtooth roof that references the nearby South Melbourne Market tops Ferrars & York, an apartment block in Australia designed by local studio Six Degrees Architects. Six Degrees Architects worked with property developer Hip V Hype to create the block of 22 apartments, which occupies a challenging, narrow site alongside a tram track in Melbourne. While

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Ochre-tinted precast concrete forms Nightingale housing by Kennedy Nolan

September 22, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has completed Leftfield, an affordable housing block with a “playful” form of pigmented precast concrete panels in the Brunswick neighbourhood of Melbourne. Part of the Nightingale Village development, the block by Kennedy Nolan is an example of a typology created under the Nightingale development model, which aims to design residential projects

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Low-slung roof shelters blockwork home on Mornington Peninsula

September 13, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A low-slung roof with deep eaves shelters Merricks Farmhouse, a concrete-block home in Australia designed by South African studio Michael Lumby Architecture with Brisbane practice Nielsen Jenkins. Overlooking vineyards and the sea on the Mornington Peninsula in southeast Melbourne, the dwelling references local farmhouses and is designed by Michael Lumby Architecture and Nielsen Jenkins as

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Industrial warehouses inform Melbourne office block by Carr

September 8, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Australian architecture studio Carr drew on 20th-century industrial warehouses for this office building in Melbourne, which features a stepped frontage of perforated red-brick columns. The office on Bruce Street is the first large building to reach completion in the redevelopment of an “industrial wedge” in Kensington, a suburb defined by brick warehouses and grain siloes

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Chipboard and recycled denim define spaces inside Microloft in Melbourne

July 24, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

Australian architecture practice Studio Edwards has completed an exercise in contemporary small-space living with this 24-square-metre micro apartment in Melbourne’s Fitzroy district. The clients, a young couple, approached Studio Edwards to remodel the tiny studio apartment on the top floor of a 1980s apartment block. “They asked for a home that felt unified and clutter-free,

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India Mahdavi creates colourful scenography for Pierre Bonnard exhibition in Melbourne

June 10, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Iraninan-French architect India Mahdavi has designed an exhibition to present works by French painter Pierre Bonnard at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi presents more than 100 works by the famed 20th-century artist who is celebrated for applying an iridescent palette. The scenography design by Mahdavi, also known for

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Tadao Ando unveils design for 2023 MPavilion

May 11, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Geometric concrete forms and a reflective pool will define the 10th MPavilion in Australia, which is being designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando. MPavilion 10, which is Japanese architect Ando’s first project in Australia, will occupy a site in Queen Victoria Gardens in the centre of Melbourne. It has been designed as a

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