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Inclusive design must be about more than just meeting a baseline. Recent specialist projects demonstrate how prioritising warmth and dignity over clinical functionality can lead to richer, more generous architecture for all.

Kart Projects’ upgrade to an existing Melbourne school campus delivers additional specialist spaces alongside places for the school community to gather, imbuing them with a familiar domestic character that feels distinctly non-institutional.

Conceived as a pilot project for Disability Homes Victoria, Studio Bright’s specialist disability accommodation negotiates complex regulatory, operational and behavioural requirements, demonstrating how considered design can improve residents’ quality of life while reducing maintenance and operational costs.

Replacing a suburban house-turned-clinic in Perth, a new dental healthcare building by SPH Architecture and Interiors goes above and beyond to create an accessible environment that reduces anxiety, preserves dignity and gives patients greater agency over their own care.

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Skidmore, Owings and Merrill’s design of the “luxury” waterfront transformation was selected following an international competition.

The survey invites responses from anyone working in, or connected to, architecture, regardless of whether they use artificial intelligence.

The renders include the first of three towers destined for the “unmistakably Brisbane” precinct, whose integrated design is led by Richards and Spence, Bates Smart and Subtropic Design.

In the Gold Medal tour’s concluding A.S. Hook Address, recipients Neil Durbach, Camilla Block and David Jaggers offered individual reflections on their personal journeys and inspirations in architecture, and their perspectives on the profession’s evolving challenges and opportunities.

Prompted by plans for a new tech-city in Uruguay, Elizabeth Farrelly questions whether the concept of urban utopia, rooted in perfectionism, obstructs the fundamental notion of the city as res publica: “a universal welcome to all comers.”

This month, step inside buildings rarely open to the public in Hobart and Sydney, and visit the work of designers, artists and makers at exhibitions in Canberra and Melbourne.

Four finalists have been named for the City of Melbourne’s 2026 City Design Award, which recognises design excellence in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design.

New plans have been unveiled for the major urban renewal of Arden precinct in Melbourne’s inner north, led by a team comprising Woods Bagot, Nelson Koo, Populous, Gehl, Tract Landscape Architecture and more.

In this extract from Kathryn Franco’s recent book on Sydney homebuilders Pettit and Sevitt, she explores Ironbark Architecture's contemporary renovation to a 1967 home originally designed by Ken Woolley.

Marking its first year, the Landscape Australia Awards championed innovation and sustainability in landscape architecture and design.

Set in a rising neighbourhood of north-west Sydney, a new apartment tower trades generic glass-box urbanism for an expressive form carefully attuned to sun and shade.

The shortlist for the 2026 WIN Awards have been announced.

A delightfully different one-bedroom apartment renovation in Roy Grounds’s Quamby flats is testament to the creativity and critical thinking of its Gold Medal-winning architect.

Thirteen Australian projects have been named winners in this year’s Architecture Masterprize.

Six design teams comprising local and international architects have been selected to proceed to the next stage of the competition to transform Sydney’s waterfront precinct.