Architecture

The Garden House is a radical reappraisal of architecture as environmental healing.

The SA State Library’s exhibition Lust for Lifestyle explores how mid-century Modernist architecture aestheticised the everyday.

The peacock dress of a new office building in Sydney’s Surry Hills belies its ingeniously modest design.

The National Architecture Awards are a chance to reflect on the state of the art.

The new Upfield railway line development is a triumph, restoring parkland to space-starved citizens.

The Permanent Camping pavilions demonstrate how exquisite small buildings can be – but what does this photogenic asceticism say about how we’re living now?

John Ellway’s striking homes play on the traditional Queenslander design, bringing the garden into the home.

The proposed redevelopment of the Australian War Memorial not only compromises Charles Bean’s original vision for a ‘simple, solemn, exquisite building’, it calls into question our processes of public governance.

The ACMI redevelopment brings Victoria’s major institution for screen culture into triumphant focus.

The redevelopment of Pentridge prison raises troubling questions about how we preserve our punitive past, and whether it is ever acceptable to exploit misery as a brand.