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Neon lights illuminate carefully crafted Japanese-style restaurant
Melbourne isn’t Tokyo, but Japan’s dynamism is present in a new Collins Street restaurant offering.
- by Stephen Crafti
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This California home has a library but it’s not for dusty old books
The unusual library in this $29.5 million-home is no dark, basement afterthought, as you might expect. Instead, it is bathed in light through full-height windows and doors, edged in steel.
- by Emily Power
Reworked Rouse Hill childcare centre calms kids
It can be quite an ordeal for infants and toddlers to be separated from parents for the first time in their lives, whether they are a few weeks old or at the pre-school age.
- by Stephen Crafti
This Florida mansion has the ultimate tribute to Star Wars
It has all the features you’d expect of a $22 million home, such as a swimming pool and spa, plus one room that looks like it’s straight out of a movie set.
- by James Robinson
Arthur and Yvonne Boyd’s Bundanon museum
Some of the most successful architectural projects take time to get right.
- by Stephen Crafti
More like a real home than clinical retirement living
Retirement homes have had a bad-wrap over recent years with clinical rooms leading off sterile corridors and shared bathroom facilities.
- by Stephen Crafti
I bought a house in my 20s with a friend, and we’re still friends
Somehow, probably over a Baileys on ice, we came up with the idea of buying a house together 27 years ago as a way of getting into the property market.
- by Monique Farmer
Museum and golf clubhouse combined under one roof
With building budgets often being lean, combining two functions under the one roof makes economic sense.
- by Stephen Crafti
What tenants can do if their landlord hikes the rent
Tenants are being hit with rising costs, with more pain expected to come. But there are steps renters can take when facing a rent increase.
- by Kate Burke
Barrel-vaulted ceiling: school basketball courts and gym with a difference
It doesn’t take much effort to design a rudimentary gymnasium that also functions as a performance centre. But this addition is far from rudimentary.
- by Stephen Crafti
Continental hotel’s rebirth merges art and architecture
Architecture and art come together in the newly renovated Continental Hotel.
- by Stephen Crafti