Australian firms Three C Architects and Nexus Designs collaborated to create ‘Point Lonsdale Home’—a minimalist family retreat situated on the coast of Point Lonsdale, in Australia’s state of Victoria.

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Cloisters, as spaces, are semi-enclosed walkways found in places of worship. The cloister, as an ideology, is a term associated with monastic life. Perth-based studio MORQ has enacted a little of both in the creation of a thoughtfully designed concrete building that looks inwards instead of out, in Floreat, Western Australia.

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Melbourne-based photographer Tom Ross takes us inside ‘Toolern Vale House’; a family home in rural Victoria, and one of Australian architect Paul Couch’s most personal projects.

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Oliver du Puy has reimagined an exceptionally narrow plot of land as a quiet, contemplative home for a London-based client whose work takes him to the city of Melbourne frequently.

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Melbourne architect Richard Stampton has facilitated the renovation of a heritage-listed building in the suburb of Collingwood, reimagining the Victorian-era space as ‘Simhanada’; an Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga studio.

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In an unusual and typically theatrical move, British designer Lee Broom has opened an exhibition in a car park beneath the Space Furniture showroom in Sydney, Australia.

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Sydney-based firm Smart Design Studio has finished the construction of a bold concrete residence built for an art collector, titled ‘Indigo Slam’: featuring a strikingly uncommon sculptural facade that overlooks a park in Sydney, Australia.

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Australian filmmaker Jack Birtles has teamed up with choreographer Cassandra Kowitz to create ‘Non –’. This enchanting short film uses the movement of a body in space as a metaphor for the struggle to be centered and present in an increasingly frantic world.

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Melbourne and Hong Kong-based designer Ryan L Foote has created an innovative range of chocolates using 3D printing techniques. His eponymous first collection draws inspiration from both the natural and man-made world—with chocolates printed to look like architectural spaces and rock formations.

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Sydney-based designer and architect Thomas Wing-Evans has collaborated with DX Lab to create ‘80Hz’, an immersive sound pavilion for the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

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Australian photographer Paul Harmon’s series ‘Watermarks’ shows humanity’s stark dependence on water. Harmon set out to photograph the visually arresting floodplains of country New South Wales, to heighten awareness of the drought situation currently affecting this area of Australia.

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Seton uses his own clothes to create a series of tightly compressed soft clothing bales. The piles of fabric are rendered in marble and stacked upon each other to look like building blocks. They are then arranged in square chiral patterns, alternating in layers on each palate. The installation aims to show how much impact one person’s collection of clothing has, both on a personal and political level. “I’m interested in the identities we have, the clothing we’ve worn throughout our lives and the many different roles we’ve worn within those clothes”, explains Seton. He is also fascinated by the idea of journey. “We have all lived many different lives”, he continues, “And we are all hoping to evolve and change into something better”. Each compressed bale works as an art piece to evoke a tangled mass of humanity; the condensing of human needs and social concerns, as well as the broader environments and cultures that connect us all.

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Lead architects Aaron Roberts and Kim Brigland treat architecture as a “tool for amplification”; and in the ‘Hawthorn House’ they have created a space that emphasizes elements of the suburban site by acting against them. The board-marked concrete structure sits heavily on the land, its form distinct from its green surroundings. Whilst the upper level of this home is enclosed in concrete, the ground floor opens directly to the outdoors via a continuous glass front that wraps around three of its four sides. Here, the board-marked concrete exterior acts as a protective shell, framing arced vistas of the yard. Rather than design a building that merges with the landscape, Edition Office has created a structure that offers a unique mixture of tension and harmony between nature and architecture.

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Hobart-based firm Maguire and Devine Architects has designed an off-grid cabin, set amongst the eucalyptus on an island off the southern coast of Tasmania.

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Standing at the top of a hill overlooking the coastline in New South Wales, Australia, is ‘Headland House’, a great hulking mass of extraordinary cantilevered rooms designed by Sydney-based firm Atelier Andy Carson.

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