Architecture and renovation

This apartment may not look experimental but it is, says the architect who spearheaded its reimagining, and has proved to be quite the lesson in restraint, light, and a softer palette.

The Keep opened to a solely Tasmanian audience during COVID border closures to the rest of Australia. However, it became the state’s not-so-hidden secret, fast booking out every weekend.

Barangaroo was a passion project from the start for the former prime minister, who first started visiting – and reimagining – that part of the harbour as a 15-year-old clerk working for Sydney County Council.

Despite its impractical floorplan, designer Kate Challis saw potential in an old bookshop, transforming it into her own glorious contemporary family home.

When Richard and Stephanie Huxley first saw this 170-year-old cottage in 2014, it was in a state of disrepair and deemed non-habitable. 

In one of the most beautiful streets in Sydney’s Potts Point, designer David Flack has created this extraordinary home.

A new duplex that's entirely concealed behind rampant greenery just won a top architecture award, and a string of homes in the running for another gong take a similar approach.

With gentle curves, textural finishes and a milky palette, the picture-perfect property was built to celebrate leisure.

House for Hiroko, as it's affectionately known, by Anthony Knobel Architect took out the Canberra Medallion and The Malcolm Moir and Heather Sutherland Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New).

The ellipsoid was originally conceived as small-scale portable snowfield accommodation in the 1960s, then fell into disrepair. But a dramatic renovation changed its look and function - see inside.