adaptive reuse

A home built through living

Residence F in Shanghai shows how adaptive interior design can shape a home through daily life, memory and creative practice over time.

A harbour home of light and colour

Balmain East House by Studio Johnston reimagines an existing waterfront dwelling into a playful and family-centred home.

A contemporary conversation with Art Deco

In St Kilda West, SGKS ARCH reimagines a pair of Art Deco flats as a vibrant family home, blending heritage with bold colour, sculptural form and global influence.

Every window is a garden

A roof that drips, windows with no glass, a stair between patches of grass – Linghao Architects’ renovation to a house allows its occupants to live with nature’s vicissitudes.

U-shaped room becomes an entire house in Shanghai

Once a room within one big, bourgeois house, this U-Shaped Room has become a grand little house in itself, thanks to a reimagining of space by Atelier tao+c.