Inside Festival 2015: Casey Vallance of Cox Rayner Architects explains how the firm used natural materials to create a calming environment inside a dentist training facility in Brisbane, Australia, in this exclusive movie. More about Cox Rayner's university health centre aims to reduce anxiety in patients
This weathering steel bridge by Branch Studio Architects spans a quadrangle at a secondary school in Melbourne's western suburbs, forming an art gallery and viewpoint for students en route to class (+ slideshow). More about Branch Studio Architects embellishes school "flyover" with concertinaed Corten screen
Architecture studio Freadman White has remodelled a 1930s Melbourne house that was extended in the 1970s, and created a new room featuring an angular roof (+ slideshow). More about Freadman White creates new layout for extended 1930s house in Melbourne
A corridor framed by reclaimed bricks and glass separates this Melbourne house from a new extension built in the back garden by local architecture firm MODO (+ slideshow). More about Glazed "tunnel" separates old from new at Melbourne house extended by MODO
Indian firm Studio Mumbai has been selected to design Melbourne's next MPavilion, an annual commission touted as Australia's answer to London's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. More about Studio Mumbai to design 2016 edition of Melbourne's MPavilion
Architecture firm Grimshaw has designed a 14-storey school complex for New South Wales, which it describes as a "totally new typology" (+ slideshow). More about Grimshaw unveils plans for high-rise school complex on Sydney's outskirts
Australian architect Adrian Bonomi used a combination of blackened and pale wood to clad this summer residence for a couple who spend the winters sailing their yacht around Queensland (+ slideshow). More about Adrian Bonomi builds wooden summer house for a couple who also live on a yacht
A floor that doubles as a toy box and a vivid yellow bathtub both feature inside this remodelled Melbourne house by local studio Austin Maynard Architects (+ slideshow). More about Revamped Melbourne house hides a giant toy box under its floors
A change to building regulation codes in Australia means that architects will be allowed to build timber-framed structures up to eight storeys in height for the first time. More about Australia becomes latest nation to embrace wooden high-rise buildings
It's Australia Day today, so we're celebrating with some bonzer architecture on Instagram and revisiting the best Aussie projects on Dezeen.
Highlights include a hotel in the middle of Australia's deepest lake (pictured), a cliff-top house inspired by a Picasso painting, and an equestrian centre with a curving rammed-earth wall. See more Australian architecture and design »
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Inside Festival 2015: Rob Backhouse of Hassell explains how the architecture firm's office building for insurance company Medibank is designed to promote a healthy lifestyle amongst staff (+ movie). More about Hassell's office building for Medibank is designed to "get people moving"
Perforated screens cover the windows of this cement-clad house in Melbourne by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, allowing light from within to shine through circular openings (+ slideshow). More about Perforated shutters animate facade of Melbourne house by Jackson Clements Burrows
Australian studio Those Architects has overhauled a house in a beachside Sydney suburb, creating a spacious new living room featuring secret storage, concrete surfaces and a pivoting garden window (+ slideshow). More about Those Architects transforms small Sydney bungalow into spacious courtyard home
Australian designer Matt Woods has transformed an industrial space in Sydney into The Rabbit Hole organic tea bar, pairing the building's original features with whimsical elements (+ slideshow). More about Matt Woods adds teabag chandelier and balancing bowls to Australian cafe
Inside Festival 2015: in this exclusive movie, Rodney Eggleston of March Studio explains how the Australian firm used over 5000 lengths of reclaimed wood to create the award-winning interior for a Canberra hotel. More about March Studio created Hotel Hotel lobby and bar by recycling "thousands of pieces of timber"
Built near the heart of Melbourne's historic brick-making district, this block of apartments and shops has walls of black bricks that are arranged to create perforated patterns and provide privacy for residents (+ slideshow). More about Ola Architecture Studio's housing block in Melbourne designed as an "ode to brick"
Property developer Landream has unveiled designs by Zaha Hadid Architects for a 54-storey skyscraper in Melbourne, featuring a volume broken up into four curved segments. More about Zaha Hadid plans Melbourne skyscraper made up of stacked "vases"
Australian architect David Boyle chose recycled brick for this renovation and extension of a psychologist's house in Sydney, which creates a double-height living room, a mezzanine bedroom and a home office (+ slideshow). More about David Boyle uses reclaimed brick to build extension to a Sydney terrace
This shed-inspired house in rural Victoria, Australia, features a low-maintenance fire-resistant facade of corrugated steel that also helps to reflect heat, keeping the building cool in summer (+ slideshow). More about Corrugated steel provides durable facade for rural Australian home by Glow Design Group
FMD Architects used slender lengths of timber to "stitch" together this narrow Melbourne house and its new garden extension. More about Wooden beams create sewing-inspired details at Cross-Stitch House by FMD Architects