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This page contains a selection of major Australian building designs, with links to individual project pages. We've selected what we feel are the key Australian Buildings, but additions are always welcome.

We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across Australia. The focus is on contemporary Australian buildings but information on traditional architecture is also welcome.

Australian Architecture : A-C (this page)

Australian Building Developments : D-L

Australian Architecture Designs : M-R

Australian Building Designs : S-Z

Australian Buildings - by city

Adelaide Buildings
Brisbane Architecture
Canberra Developments
Gold Coast Buildings
Melbourne Buildings
Perth Buildings
Sydney Architecture

Australian Building News

Architecture News - latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

The Infinity Centre, Melbourne, Victoria
Design: McBride Charles Ryan
The Infinity Centre Melbourne
photo : John Gollings

The Infinity Centre Australia - 22 Apr 2013
The idea of infinite learning became the mantra. Radiating out from the library, along the length of the form, are specialist precincts and a variety of learning spaces. Each wing of the building then returns to link up, forming cloisters and the resulting plan of an infinity symbol. Being structured around two protected courtyards has enhanced the learning space’s access to light, ventilation and view.

Darling Harbour Redevelopment - Masterplan + ICC Hotels, Sydney, NSW
Design: OMA
SICEEP Redevelopment Sydney
image : OMA

Darling Harbour Redevelopment - 13 Dec 2012
The New South Wales Government announced today that Destination Sydney, consisting of Lend Lease, HOSTPLUS, Capella Capital, AEG Ogden and Spotless, is the preferred consortium for Sydney International Convention, Exhibition and Entertainment Precinct (SICEEP) redevelopment. OMA is the master plan designer within the consortium, and is also the conceptual architect of the ICC Hotels within the master plan.

Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, UTS, Sydney, NSW
Design: Gehry Partners LLP with architect Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke (Australia)
East façade, view across Ultimo Pedestrian Network, model scale: 1-to-100
Dr Chau Chak Wing Building UTS Business School Sydney UTS Building Sydney
image : Gehry Partners, LLP
Dr Chau Chak Wing Building Sydney - 2 Dec 2012
Lend Lease, one of Australia's largest contractors, has been appointed by UTS to build the Frank Gehry-designed Dr Chau Chak Wing Building aka 'Gehry's Tree house'.
To open in mid-2014 at a total development cost of $180 million, the building will house the UTS Business School. The UTS building will be 12 storeys high.

Swanston Academic Building, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lyons
Swanston Academic Building
image : John Gollings

Swanston Academic Building - 26 Nov 2012
This new building, called the Swanston Academic Building, is an idea about building a vertical campus and drawing the diversity of the city deeply in to the design conception. As student space is not available like a green campus, the project proposes a vertical ‘stack’ of informal ‘open’ student spaces, each connected to a central circulation system of escalators and stairs.

Dandenong Government Services Offices, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Design: HASSELL
Dandenong GSO
photograph : Peter Bennetts

Dandenong GSO - 5 Oct 2012
The Government Services Offices development is one of the key projects of the Revitalising Central Dandenong initiative, a major urban renewal project being led by Places Victoria and the Victorian State Government. Developed and built by Grocon, the challenge of this landmark development was to create a high standard of urban design and quality workplace in this outer-suburban region, and to assist in the rebirth of the precinct as a major mixed-use activity centre.

Brisbane Street Additions, Perth, Western Australia
Design: rad architecture
Brisbane Street Additions Building
photo : Andrew Pritchard Photography

Brisbane Street Additions - 15 Aug 2012
Conceived as a riposte to the Local Authority’s requirement that we superficially 'decorate' a large expanse of wall on the western boundary, rad architecture’s concept for the Brisbane Street Additions was drawn from the lifestyle of our clients. Our design response was to “redefine the edge” to create a boundary on the move, in tension and compression, not necessarily straight and challenging the traditions of structure and container.

Cloud House, North Fitzroy, Melbourne
Architect: McBride Charles Ryan
Cloud House Melbourne
photo : John Gollings

Cloud House - 23 Jul 2012
The Cloud House is an addition and renovation to a double-fronted Edwardian house in Fitzroy North. Over the course of close to a century, this house has received several additions and modifications. McBride Charles Ryan's work for the house is designed in three parts. This allows for a sequence of distinct and unexpected episodes, with glimpses previewing oncoming spaces and experiences as you move through the home.

Beaumaris Dental, Victoria
Demaine Partnership
Beaumaris Dental Building Victoria
image : Peter Clarke Photography

Beaumaris Dental - 19 Apr 2012
This project began when two dentists, who are also father and son, decided that they needed a new building for their growing dental practice - a building that would reflect the quality of their dentistry and modern equipment and a building that would serve their business well into the future.

Monash Student Housing
BVN Architecture
Monash University Housing
image : John Gollings

Monash Student Housing - 21 Mar 2012
A nominee in this year’s Institute of Architects Awards that will be presented to the jury next Saturday 24 March is the Monash Student Housing that sets a new standard of student housing. BVN Principal, Ninotschka Titchkosky will explain to the jury how the new housing at Monash responds to the need for higher end facilities for students.

State Theatre Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
Kerry Hill Architects
State Theatre Western Australia
photo © Adrian Lambert - Acorn Photo Agency

State Theatre Western Australia - added Feb 2012
The building volumes are clearly articulated on the site. The theatres are stacked vertically and located centrally, freeing up space on the site for a large courtyard: an urban oasis and outdoor event space. Theatre foyers are located on the perimeter of the site: low transparent volumes that reinstate the urban scale of the surrounding streets and celebrate the activity within. Multiple entries create a permeable, welcoming venue, knitted into the urban fabric.

Australian Institute of Architects Awards : National Architecture Awards 2010

Australian Architecture - Selection

Building Designs in Australia, A-C, alphabetical:

39 Hunter Street, Sydney, NSW
Jackson Teece Architecture
39 Hunter Street Sydney
photograph : Sharrin Rees

39 Hunter Street
 
401 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria
Elenberg Fraser
401 St Kilda Road
image © Digital Fx

401 St Kilda Road
 
The Academy, Melbourne
BVN Architecture
The Academy Melbourne
photo : Anson Smart

The Academy Melbourne
 
Adelaide Zoo Entrance Precinct
HASSELL
Adelaide Zoo Precinct
photo : Peter Bennetts

Adelaide Zoo Entrance Precinct
 
Adelaide Zoo Giant Panda Forest
HASSELL
Adelaide Giant Panda Forest
photo : Ben Wrigley

Adelaide Zoo Giant Panda Forest
 
Ala Moana, Hamilton Island
Omiros One Architecture (O1A)
Ala Moana Hamilton Island
photo from architect

Hamilton Island house
 
ATO Headquarters, Canberra, ACT
Cox Richardson Architects & Planners
ATO Headquarters
picture from Cox

Australian building : Tax Office HQ
 
Avondale Heights Library, Melbourne
H2o architects, Collingwood
Avondale Heights Library Building
photograph : Trevor Mein - Mein Photo

Melbourne Library Building
 
Barangaroo Waterfront, Sydney, NSW
various architects
Barangaroo Waterfront
image courtesy Sydney Harbour F. A.

Barangaroo Buildings : Public Domain
 
BMW Showroom, Parramatta, Sydney
Turner + Associates
BMW Showroom Sydney
image from architect

Australian BMW Showroom
 
The Bond, Millers Point, Sydney
Lend Lease design with PTW Architects
The Bond Sydney
picture from PTW

The Bond Sydney
 
Boolarong & Kinkabool, Queensland
BVN Architecture
Boolarong & Kinkabool Queensland
photo : Christopher Frederick Jones

Boolarong & Kinkabool, Stradbroke Island
 
Bundeena Housing, nr Sydney
Tony Owen NDM
Bundeena Housing
image from TO

Bundeena Housing
 
Chatswood Residential Towers, Sydney
Cox Richardson Architects
Chatswood Towers
image : Ivolve

Chatswood Residential Towers
 
Children's Activity Centre, Melbourne
Phooey Architects
Childrens Activity Centre
picture : Peter Bennetts Photography

Children's Activity Centre
 
Churchill Community Hub
Suters Architects
Churchill Community Hub
picture : Emma Cross

Churchill Community Hub
 
City North Substation, Sydney
Architects Johannsen + Associates
City North Substation
photograph : Michael Nicholson

City North Substation
 
CLEM7 Tunnel Canopy, Brisbane
AECOM
CLEM7 Canopy
photo : Richard Pearse

CLEM7 Tunnel Canopy
 
Contour House, Victoria
BKK Architects
Contour House
photo : Shannon McGrath

Contour House : Bellarine Peninsula
 
Cooroy Art Temple, Queensland
Paolo Denti JMA Architects
Cooroy Art Temple
picture from JMAA

Cooroy Studio
 
Crown Metropol Hotel, Melbourne
Bates Smart
Crown Metropol Melbourne
image : John Gollings / Shannon McGrath

Crown Metropol Hotel
 

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Surfers Paradise Buildings
photograph : John Gollings

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Sydney Opera House
Jørn Utzon
Sydney Opera House
photo © Derek McGavigan

Sydney Opera House

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