Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Aileen Sage Architects has installed a swimming pool inside Australia's Biennale pavilion to symbolise the importance of this type of public space to the nation's cultural identity (+ slideshow). More about Australian Pavilion features swimming pool as "space for healing racial and cultural division"
The bereaved will be able to find the location of their loved ones' graves using GPS in this cemetery without headstones, proposed by Australian firms CHROFI and McGregor Coxall for Sydney (+ slideshow). More about Graves reached using GPS proposed for bushland cemetery near Sydney
This pill-shaped corrugated-metal cabin contains a reading room for a rural retreat in Australia's Barragorang Valley (+ slideshow). More about Benn + Penna completes corrugated metal cabin in the Australian bush
This tall, gabled extension is tucked behind the Victorian frontage of a mid-terrace house in Melbourne's Fitzroy North suburb, and its exterior is clad in pale blue tiles (+ slideshow). More about Pastel blue tiles front gabled extension to a Melbourne house by Dan Gayfer Design
This weekend retreat on the Australian coastline was designed by Melbourne firm Open Studio to peep over the tree canopy, offering views of a creek that runs alongside the beach (+ slideshow). More about Open Studio completes coastal retreat on Australia's Mornington Peninsula
Australian studio PHAB Architects has converted a former condensed-milk packing shed into an art gallery and workshop, without losing the building's industrial character and materiality (+ slideshow). More about PHAB Architects transforms 1920s packing shed into a contemporary art gallery
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: the Australian pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale will make a convincing argument for the swimming pool as the Antipodean answer to the piazza – a public space that deserves protection, says Dan Hill. More about "Australia's swimming pools exemplify the balancing act of architecture"
A hole in the roof of this timber-clad house extension in Sydney reveals the location of a secluded courtyard. More about Cutaway Roof House by Scale Architecture has a courtyard sliced out of one side
The Australian Institute of Architects has this year awarded the country's most prestigious architecture award to "controversial and contentious" studio ARM Architecture (+ slideshow). More about ARM Architecture wins 2016 Gold Medal from the Australian Institute of Architects
Australian firm CM Studio has added a pair of white-painted extensions to an end-of-terrace house in Sydney dating back to the 1880s, and remodelled its interiors with grey marble and pale timber finishes (+ slideshow). More about CM Studio updates 19th-century workers' cottage in Sydney with slatted timber extension
A slatted wooden screen wraps around the extended living space of this 1960s bungalow in Sydney, forming a protective surface that shields the interior from direct sunlight and views from the street (+ slideshow). More about Bijl Architecture adds slatted sun-shading screen to a refurbished Sydney bungalow
Andrew Simpson Architects has converted a red brick warehouse in Melbourne into a loft-style residence, with separate entrances for different members of the resident family (+ slideshow). More about Andrew Simpson Architects converts Melbourne warehouse into family home
Australian firm Inarc aimed to find a middle ground between luxury and efficiency for this holiday house, built beside a seafront golf course on the outskirts of Melbourne (+ slideshow). More about Inarc completes "efficient, yet extravagant" retreat on Australia's Mornington Peninsula
Kengo Kuma has revealed plans for his first building in Australia, a cylindrical civic centre by Sydney's Darling Harbour that will feature the Japanese architect's characteristic timber cladding (+ movie). More about Kengo Kuma reveals plans for curving timber-wrapped tower in Sydney's Darling Harbour
Architects and engineers from Arup Associates teamed up to design this curvaceous pedestrian and cycling bridge, which has been built over the inlet of the Swan River in Perth, Australia (+ slideshow). More about Arup completes meandering bridge across Perth's Swan River
This small shed-like building by Australian architecture studio Panovscott provides a studio for two artists behind their family home in Marrickville, western Sydney (+ slideshow). More about Panovscott uses old telegraph poles to clad artists' studio in a Sydney garden
Corrugated iron and pre-weathered steel clad this shed-like house and stables, completed by Casey Brown Architects in the bushland of Australia's Kosciuszko National Park (+ slideshow). More about Casey Brown builds metal-clad house and stables in an Australian national park
Zigzagging golden frames surround the facades of this apartment complex by DROO Projects, which is tucked behind a row of 19th-century shops in Melbourne's Hawthorn suburb (+ slideshow). More about DROO Projects creates golden facades for a pair of Melbourne apartment blocks
Melbourne architecture office Taylor Knights has renovated an existing Federation-style house in the city and added a contrasting contemporary extension that opens directly onto the rear garden (+ movie). More about Taylor Knights adds modern rear extension to a traditional Melbourne house
A trio of glass-ended boxes forms this compact Melbourne house by Austin Maynard Architects, which was designed to give the resident family "just the right amount of space" (+ slideshow). More about Melbourne house by Austin Maynard is deliberately half the size of its neighbours