Continuing our Designing for Disaster series, we spotlight Climate Safe Rooms, an initiative that insulates one room in a home as a cost-effective way of preparing low-income homes in Australia for extreme heat. More about Climate Safe Rooms retrofits Australian homes to protect vulnerable residents in extreme temperatures
The Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney by Danish studio 3XN and Australian studio BVN has won the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's award for best new tall building. More about Retrofitted Sydney skyscraper named Best Tall Building Worldwide
Architecture practice Prior Barraclough has expanded a modest workers' cottage in Melbourne to include an extension panelled entirely in Australian hardwood. More about Australian hardwood lines Melbourne cottage extension by Prior Barraclough
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. More about Branch Studio Architects designs student welfare space for Melbourne college
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. More about Architecture Architecture uses grey breeze blocks for Melbourne extension
An "urban farm" rooftop garden, planted terraces and a fish-pond atrium characterise this renovated house in Melbourne, designed by Austin Maynard Architects. More about Austin Maynard Architects adds five gardens to Melbourne terrace house
Rich hues and curving geometries feature throughout Somers House, an L-shaped coastal home that Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has added to a coastal site in Victoria. More about Kennedy Nolan covers L-shaped coastal home in charred timber
Melbourne studio Reef Design Lab has created a series of organically shaped modules from concrete blended with oyster shells to help reduce coastal erosion in Port Phillip Bay, Australia. More about Reef Design Lab crafts Erosion Mitigation Units from recycled oyster shells
Promotion: utilising a new project management platform named Programa, interior design studio Smac Studio has outfitted a duplex in Australia with blue-toned stone. More about Smac Studio transforms duplex with project management platform Programa
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. More about Sawtooth roof animates Ferrars & York apartment block in Melbourne
Architecture practice Studio Bright used patterned breeze blocks to wrap Garden Tower House, an extension in Australia, which peeks out from behind the restored frontage of a workers' cottage. More about Studio Bright wraps extension in Australia with pale pink breeze blocks
Australian studio Retallack Thompson has constructed a steel extension for a heritage-listed stone terrace in Sydney and added a second house on the same plot to create a multi-generational family home. More about Plant-filled courtyard connects steel and stone houses in Sydney
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. More about Ochre-tinted precast concrete forms Nightingale housing by Kennedy Nolan
This year's Sydney Design Week is informed by the work of a late French philosopher, creative director Keinton Butler tells Dezeen in this interview. More about Sydney Design Week has a "clear-eyed view of the work ahead of us" says curator Keinton Butler
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. More about Low-slung roof shelters blockwork home on Mornington Peninsula
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. More about Industrial warehouses inform Melbourne office block by Carr
Triangular slabs of terrazzo and a vintage chandelier frame Sydney's Koda hair salon, which local studio Arent & Pyke has conceived as an eclectic mishmash of old and new. More about Arent & Pyke designs Sydney hair salon to be "best appreciated from seated height"
Australian firm PW Architecture Office has revived the fortunes of this mid-century house with a sensitive renovation that respects the original building while taking design cues from its material palette. More about PW Architecture Office brings "a little excitement" back into mid-century Australian home
Exposed concrete and perforated copper screens define this apartment block overlooking a valley in Victoria, Australia, which was designed by local architecture studio Edition Office. More about Edition Office uses concrete and copper to finish Australian apartment block
Spicy shades of turmeric, cinnamon and ginger feature alongside mosaic tiles and hand-painted murals in the public spaces of this hotel in Sydney, following a makeover from local studio Luchetti Krelle. More about Luchetti Krelle brings laid-back luxury to social spaces of Manly Pacific hotel