As cities continue to evolve and redefine their skylines, 2025 promises to be a landmark year for architecture. From towering ...

Beach shacks have long been isolated and precarious. What we find charming today was once considered ‘fringe-dwelling’, separated from cities along racial and economic lines.

Glorified in architecture forever ... of Melbourne’s Featurist houses Robin Boyd famously identified in The Australian Ugliness. Often, colloquial vernacular nicknames were given to distinct ...

As a result, the architecture – a process that began ... “The shelter is a reinterpretation of the Australian vernacular shed, where a corrugated external structure sits independently from ...

A wall of timber louvres references traditional wooden beach shacks at this house in Byron Bay, Australia, completed by local architecture practice Son Studio. Named Bangalow Road House after the road ...

as a type of “vernacular architecture.” While the origins of these structures are practical and humble, it’s ironic the very isolation and simplicity of their construction on the coastal edge now ...

‘It was important to me as an Australian production designer ... [so] was not a small feat trying to understand American vernacular architecture.’ Photograph: Nicola Dove/Universal Pictures ...

The Australian National Competency Standards also apply to ... The architecture was seen as largely rudimentary shelter types, and at best it was a stretch to call it vernacular architecture. The ...

Amber Hooper “My work is about exploring regional context and rural vernacular ... he became founding president of the NSW Regional Architecture Association. While the industry’s peak body ...