Architecture AU

The event saw two leadership roles within the Commonwealth Association of Architects appointed to Australian practitioners.

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

Via Porta’s new Northcote bakehouse celebrates artisanal sourdough and the craft of baking, with a design that brings together honest materials, bakers on display and a strong local connection.

Delighting in contrasts, this Melbourne residence builds a seductive dialogue between the residual glamour of its 1970s shell and the quiet necessities of contemporary life.

A rich and relaxed farmhouse in northern New South Wales hinges around protected outdoor spaces, allowing the setting to become part of the rhythms of daily life.

Successive eras of building and campus planning have reflected the changing needs and aspirations of Australia’s universities. They clearly display the layers of architectural and landscape styles that have also shaped our cities and suburbs.

Founder and principal of Singapore-based L Architects Lim Shing Hui shares her firm’s forensic approach to existing building fabric – a methodology that challenges what might conventionally be deemed worthy heritage, while revealing unfamiliar qualities and latent opportunities.

Visions for a new mixed-use precinct see the recasting of three existing office buildings by Henning Larsen in Perth’s CBD.

The way we experience biological sex in cities is real and significant. According to Elizabeth Farrelly, our legacy of modernist urban planning has left us with a masculinist myopia: a fixation with towering phallic forms, which ignores the surrounding context that makes a city liveable.

Without careful design, data centres could increase power bills, put pressure on water supplies, and slow the transition to net zero. With it, they can do the opposite, stabilising the electricity grid, attracting investment to regions, and creating economic growth.

A new community-driven centre in north-west New South Wales creates a vital space to celebrate art, culture and belonging, with a striking use of materiality and sensitivity to heritage fabric.