Architecture AU

Celebrating 10 years this year, the 2026 festival program offers the opportunity to visit a diverse range of public and private spaces united under the theme “sustainable inclusive design”.

A new pavilion and homestead renewal on a significant site for Tasmania’s Palawa people, this year’s award-winner offers a literal and symbolic means for community to return, gather, remember, care for and speak truth on Country.

Truth Telling at Wybalenna by Taylor and Hinds Architects with the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania.

Fitzroy Neighbourhood House by Kennedy Nolan.

SDA Robust Housing Project by Studio Bright.

The Open Field Agency by MAPA Art and Architecture.

Wilya Janta Explain Home by Wilya Janta, Office, Troppo Architects and Paul Memmott.

Yitpi Yartapuultiku (The Soul of Port Adelaide) by Ashley Halliday Architects with Yitpi Yartapuultiku Working Group Port Adelaide, PAE Council and Wax Design.

This month, hear from architects and designers at events in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth as they discuss their first and last projects, their designs for adaptable spaces with long lifespans, and their work at the intersection of coastal and urban environments.

Edition Office has embraced the rare opportunities and extreme constraints of a site on Melbourne’s Birrarung/Yarra River to create an introspective urban refuge embedded in foliage.

In a coastal town where houses typically revere the view, this joyful dwelling instead looks inwards and upwards, creating a private haven that unfolds around a courtyard.

Elizabeth Farrelly recalls the impact of the British-born architect, academic and artist who “brought urban design in his suitcase” when he arrived in Australia in the late ’80s.

A new Melbourne exhibition will explore how designers are replacing plastics with plant-based materials, revealing a future where fungi, hemp and Indigenous knowledge reshape the way we make, build and live.

InteriorsAu editor Cassie Hansen gathers together her favourite design items that have crossed her desk in July 2026.

Sixteen commercial and residential interiors from across Australia and one home overseas are in contention to win the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2026 National Architecture Awards.

The redevelopment of an infamous “murder mall” in Sydney’s inner-east cuts through a recent glut of polished, placeless projects with a deliberately whimsical mix of forms, materials and programs that embrace the site’s richly layered past.

Architecture Australia explores how architects are progressing on the Indigenising of the built environment.

ArchitectureAu Asks the Melbourne architect, “Our building code ensures occupants’ safety, amenity, health and accessibility – what about their sense of belonging?”

Steered by First Nations designers and creatives, the university institute is intended to serve as a hub for Indigenous-led research, teaching and industry engagement.

Key obstacles identified by the report include housing affordability, accessibility issues in and around the home, and limitations in the scope of government-funded accommodation.