Architecture AU

Attending to the strict rules of an alternative planning pathway and the challenges of a steep site, a pair of new dwellings in Sydney’s east employ clever planning and careful detailing to create generous spaces that feel uncharacteristically luxurious.

Find out more on the topic of regenerating Country through expert insights, podcasts and more.

This intentionally recessive design is based on a goal to do as little harm and to use as little material as possible, employing a regenerative approach to its greenfield site with the aim to act as a precedent in the new planned city of Bradfield.

Plants, animals, insects and birds are invited back to this corner park, located on a prominent intersection in Melbourne’s Fitzroy, which also offers a place to reflect on the area’s significant First Nations history and culture.

Located amid the brutalist buildings of a university campus in Melbourne’s west, a new garden with a deep cultural heritage aspect invites visitors to learn of First Nations’ past use of the site and how they use it today, while also conveying how it might be protected into the future.

As Australia’s urban disruption continues, it’s more important than ever for designers to ensure their work is honouring Country properly – including by actively regenerating it, writes Danièle Hromek.

This issue of Houses: Kitchens and Bathrooms is filled with inviting kitchens and bathrooms designed for everyday ease.

Offering a subtle rather than a subversive evolution of the suburban home, this flexible family residence arranges two brick pavilions around generous private gardens.

The panel – comprising design and placemaking professionals – provides independent, expert and impartial design advice for projects across Bradfield City.

The event saw two leadership roles within the Commonwealth Association of Architects appointed to Australian practitioners.

InteriorsAu editor Cassie Hansen gathers together her favourite design items that have crossed her desk in September 2026.

Via Porta’s new Northcote bakehouse celebrates artisanal sourdough and the craft of baking, with a design that brings together honest materials, bakers on display and a strong local connection.

Delighting in contrasts, this Melbourne residence builds a seductive dialogue between the residual glamour of its 1970s shell and the quiet necessities of contemporary life.

A rich and relaxed farmhouse in northern New South Wales hinges around protected outdoor spaces, allowing the setting to become part of the rhythms of daily life.

Successive eras of building and campus planning have reflected the changing needs and aspirations of Australia’s universities. They clearly display the layers of architectural and landscape styles that have also shaped our cities and suburbs.

Founder and principal of Singapore-based L Architects Lim Shing Hui shares her firm’s forensic approach to existing building fabric – a methodology that challenges what might conventionally be deemed worthy heritage, while revealing unfamiliar qualities and latent opportunities.

Visions for a new mixed-use precinct see the recasting of three existing office buildings by Henning Larsen in Perth’s CBD.

The way we experience biological sex in cities is real and significant. According to Elizabeth Farrelly, our legacy of modernist urban planning has left us with a masculinist myopia: a fixation with towering phallic forms, which ignores the surrounding context that makes a city liveable.

Without careful design, data centres could increase power bills, put pressure on water supplies, and slow the transition to net zero. With it, they can do the opposite, stabilising the electricity grid, attracting investment to regions, and creating economic growth.

A new community-driven centre in north-west New South Wales creates a vital space to celebrate art, culture and belonging, with a striking use of materiality and sensitivity to heritage fabric.