Huge porthole windows bathe Melbourne apartments with natural light
Circular windows dominate the staggered brick facades of this apartment block designed by Australian practice BKK Architects for the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe East. More
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Andrew Burges Architects transforms Sydney warehouse into "mini city" for kids
This Sydney childcare and community centre by Andrew Burges Architects is filled with tiny house-shaped rooms and has a sandpit on its roof. More
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Andrew Burges' Sydney house pairs pale brickwork with blackened wood
Pale brickwork lines the living areas of this Sydney house by local studio Andrew Burges Architects, while the bedrooms are located in blackened wood volumes on top. More
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Perimeter House encloses private courtyard and plunge pool in Melbourne
Australian studio Make Architecture has added a brick extension to a Victorian cottage in Melbourne that bounds the street on one side and curves around a secluded courtyard on the other. More
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Diamond, scalloped and brick-shaped shingles cover Melbourne house by Austin Maynard Architects
Slate shingles are arranged in various patterns across the outer walls of the house-shaped blocks that make up this multigenerational residence in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. More
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Andrew Maynard adds greenhouse-like extension to a Melbourne home – but leaves it unfinished
This metal-framed extension to a clapboard house near Melbourne was left intentionally incomplete by architect Andrew Maynard to show off the "beautiful skeleton" of an unfinished building (+ slideshow). More
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Frank Gehry's Sydney business school completed ahead of 2015 opening
News: Frank Gehry has completed his first building in Australia – the Dr Chau Chak Wing building at Sydney's University of Technology, set to open in early 2015 (photos by Peter Bennetts). More
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Sneaker store in Melbourne by March Studio features tunnel-like interior
A circular doorway provides access to a passage lined with shoes at this futuristic sneaker store in Melbourne by local designers March Studio (+ slideshow). More
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Iredale Pedersen Hook updates a traditional Perth house with a faceted extension
Australian architecture office Iredale Pedersen Hook has renovated a 1930s property in Perth and added an angular rear extension that contrasts with the traditional street-facing facade (+ slideshow). More
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Nannup Holiday House by Iredale Pedersen Hook rises above the Australian bush on stilts
This zigzagging house in Australia by Iredale Pedersen Hook is raised above the ground on stilts to minimise its impact on the native landscape and wildlife (+ slideshow). More
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Family courtyard fronts Fairfield Hacienda house by MRTN Architects
Concrete block walls with window-like apertures surround a courtyard at the front of this Melbourne house by local practice MRTN Architects, which also features an angular wooden roof (+slideshow). More
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BLOXAS adds periscope-shaped extension and courtyard veranda to Melbourne house
Australian studio BLOXAS adopted elements from Japanese architecture to reorganise the spaces of this Melbourne residence around a courtyard then added a new timber-clad extension shaped like a periscope (+ slideshow). More
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Karri Loop House by MORQ folds around three indigenous Australian trees
Three mature trees were rooted to the centre of this site in Western Australia, but architecture firm MORQ managed to convince the owners to build their family house around the peeling trunks and burgeoning foliage (+ slideshow). More
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La Plage du Pacifique Hotel by Kristin Green photographed by Peter Bennetts
A hotel under construction on a South Pacific island is depicted as a collection of architectural ruins in this series of images by Australian photographer Peter Bennetts (+ slideshow). More
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Medhurst Winery by Folk Architects
This winery by Melbourne studio Folk Architects is embedded into the side of a hill in Australia's Yarra Valley winemaking region (+ slideshow). More
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HOUSE House by Andrew Maynard Architects
Andrew Maynard Architects has linked two terraced homes in the Richmond suburb of Melbourne, Australia, by adding a periscope-shaped extension with a special area for graffiti artists (+ slideshow). More
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Profile House by BLOXAS
A wooden wall with the silhouette of three little buildings lines the edge of this house extension in Melbourne by Australian architecture studio BLOXAS (+ slideshow). More
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Wanangkura Stadium by ARM Architecture
This black and blue sports centre in Western Australia was designed by ARM Architecture as a pixellated cluster of chunky cubes (+ slideshow). More
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Trunk House by Paul Morgan Architects
Forked tree branches framing this house in southeast Australia were intended by architect Paul Morgan to resemble the sun-bleached kangaroo and sheep bones scattered around the surrounding woodland. More
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Baker D Chirico by March Studio
Slideshow: Australian practice March Studio conceived this Melbourne bakery as an oversized breadbasket. More
