Melbourne

A curved roof and textured concrete walls characterise Northcote House in Melbourne, designed by local studio LLDS Architects for its founder partners. Slotted into the site of a former car park measuring 4.6 metres in width and 22 metres in length, the project by LLDS Architects aims to showcase how narrow urban plots can be

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Architecture studio Edition Office has completed Naples Street House, a multi-generational home in Melbourne designed as a “carved solid” wrapped in bricks. Raised on a concrete plinth, the geometric home accommodates three generations of the client’s family and is topped with a roof pitched in various directions to form multiple peaks. To help Naples Street

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Australian practice SSdH has completed Stewart House, the renovation of a home in Melbourne that preserves the brick-clad building’s original 1970s character. Located in the Brunswick suburb, the single-storey home has a brown-brick exterior and tiled roof typical of an era of rapid development in the area. Despite not being listed, SSdH saw the home

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Architecture studio Wood Marsh has used curving walls of charred timber and rammed earth to create this home south of Melbourne, which is designed to echo Australia’s “windswept” coastline. Called Peninsula House, the dwelling is located near the town of Flinders, overlooking the Bass Strait and surrounded by farmland. Instead of designing an orthogonal volume,

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