Discover residential architecture from Melbourne published on HomeWorldDesign, showcasing single-family homes, contemporary villas, and heritage houses reimagined for modern living—projects that highlight the city’s creativity, craftsmanship, and connection to outdoor spaces.
This is a rear extension to a single-storey cottage in Brunswick with difficult orientation characteristics – the north sun only reaching the site from over adjoining houses. The new addition pulls living areas to the rear of…
In a lively, active industrial precinct the form of this house can be understood as a perimeter condition; an expanded edge that sits hard up against the site boundary and in doing so, wraps and encloses the…
Completed by Zen Architects, the Up-Cycled Warehouse project transforms a 1960’s warehouse into a comfortable, sustainable family home. Although the existing structure lacked the inherent beauty of older Victorian era factories, the unique character and history of this…
Designed by Zen Architects, the Ashburton Trail House is an immersive architectural experience, drawing the power of the Australian landscape into every space. Built on gently sloping land in suburban Melbourne, this contemporary and environmentally friendly home is…
Ivanhoe House is a single-family home designed by Melbourne-based Technē Architecture and Interior Design. The brief was to create a contemporary new build family home. The house features a split level arrangement enabling it to nestle carefully into…
Mt Martha House is a residential project completed by Bird de la Coeur Architects, a boutique firm founded in 1992 by Neil de la Coeur and Vanessa Bird in Melbourne’s Southbank. This site falls away steeply by 17m from front…
The brief for this modernist home, in leafy Doncaster, was to improve its energy efficiency, extend the existing home for the changing needs of the family, and to open internal living spaces to the outside.
Dark Horse House is a single-family residence designed by Architecture Architecture, an award winning Melbourne-based practice, recognised for its dedication to contemporary architecture and design.
Black Line One Architecture Studio has designed this timber garden pavilion in Melbourne, in a garden of olive trees. This compact addition forms a new connection to an existing mature garden. The project aims to preserve the rugged…
