ARCHITECTURE

From apartments and townhouses to industrial conversions and extensions, this book showcases fifty of the newest residential projects across all the major cities of Australia. They include high-rise developments, where the cityscape provides an awe-inspiring backdrop to the daily domestic routine bold contemporary townhouses, some of them adapted from Victorian period dwellings and warehouses and factories converted to living spaces. A little further afield, newly built villas ingeniously maximise the space and light available on ever-tighter plots. This book is a celebration of Australia’s reinvention of its urban heritage.

The last five years have seen an unprecedented proliferation of exciting projects by a new generation of architects, many still only in their thirties and forties. Apartments and townhouses, industrial conversions and extensions, this book showcases some fifty projects across all the major cities of Australia. They include high-rise developments, where the cityscape provides an awe-inspiring backdrop to the daily domestic routine; bold contemporary townhouses, some of them adapted from Victorian period dwellings; and warehouses and factories converted to living spaces, often with traces of their orIginal crumbling brickwork and plaster remaining alongside pristine new interiors. A little further afield, in areas that used sprawling suburbs but are increasingly being brought in the city’s inner orbit, newly built properties ingeniously maximiSe the space and light available on ever-tightening plots.

pp. 208 As new copy. #130523