Naomi Stead

There are plenty of dodgy award programs in world architecture. Some are venal, many are vacuous – and so are the glossy coffee-table publications they engender. Australian House: The Robin Boyd Award is an exception. The Australian Institute …

Its vaulting civic space makes Archer Office’s redevelopment of the Bondi Junction Boot Factory a building of aspiration.

Designers are often dismissed as idealistically naive when it comes to the economic and policy levers of housing provision. But Melbourne’s OFFICE – a non-profit design and research practice – makes an important contribution with Retain, Repair, …

The most interesting thing about French artist Théo Mercier’s sand sculpture Mirrorscape is not its form but the process of its un-forming.

The redeveloped St Kilda Pier is a shining example of a structure that’s well conceived, designed and built, and brings new possibilities to a public space.

The Saturday Paper’s architecture critic looks back at the highlights of 2024.

Winner of the heritage category in architecture’s Oscars, the restored Lucas Glass House is a modest structure on the very edge of the possible.

The new Sydney Metro City line is one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Australia – and it has moments of the sublime.

As the designs for the Reimagining Where We Live competition show, residential care for the elderly can encompass a lot more than warehousing people until they die.

The Biennale of Sydney’s occupation of White Bay Power Station, a vast temple of the industrial revolution, is an inspired metamorphosis – and it’s only the beginning of the site’s possibilities.

It’s the mark of a timely book that when you see it, you’re amazed it didn’t already exist. There is much great brutalist architecture in Sydney, but it’s scattered and easy to forget about. When you see it gathered within the covers of Sydney …

For Tasmanian practice Taylor and Hinds, developing deep and long-term relationships with specific Aboriginal communities is a process of discovering the truth of Country.

The Saturday Paper’s architecture critic looks back at the highlights of 2023.

A controversial site once home to a massive woodchip operation has been transformed into a peaceful place designed for people.

In their pursuit of excellent design in the name of sustainability and social good, the Nightingale developments are exemplars of architect-led contemporary architecture.

The designers of the Victorian Pride Centre in St Kilda took on a number of almost insurmountable challenges – and triumphed.

Flipside Circus’s bright new Brisbane headquarters are built from shipping containers – a possible metaphor for the contingent place of the arts in Australian culture.

The detailed domestic architecture of Studio Bright has lessons for making dense urban spaces greener and lighter.

The Art Gallery of NSW’s Sydney Modern reflects the city – breezy and bright above, with a dark, stygian underworld.

Anthony Clarke’s designs for people with complex needs create “holding spaces” where difficult feelings can take place.

The success of the Sydney Opera House refurbishment adds another layer to a complex architectural story.

The Brisbane development Fish Lane Town Square is a brilliant reclamation of disused urban space.

Melbourne’s MPavilion series focuses on the vexed question of whether architecture can be art.

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.