Peter Bennetts is a Melbourne-based architectural and interiors photographer originally trained at RMIT University. Since the late 1990s, he has forged a global reputation for his “straight-shooting” style—capturing the formal, material, and atmospheric qualities of architecture with crystalline stillness and clarity. His work appears in leading Australian and international publications including *Domus*, *Wallpaper*, *Frame*, and *Architecture Australia*.
Beyond documenting contemporary buildings, Bennetts brings a keen environmental sensibility to his visual storytelling. His early career in environmental reportage led him to document vulnerable ecologies like the coral atolls of Tuvalu, and this concern for place continues to inform his architectural imagery. His photography resonates for its balance of precision, poetic restraint, and narrative depth.
LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia
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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…
Subtlety is the one word Theresa St residence evokes. This small home was renovated by Sonelo Design Studio. Despite the modest budget, through rigorous spatial planning, restraint and refined tectonics, the renovation work creates a modest seamless…
Elgin Street Residence is a alteration and addition project completed in 2017 by Sonelo Design Studio. The house is located in Carlton, Victoria, Australia. Manipulating the sense of spaciousness is the epitome of the alterations additions to this single storey…
Charles House is a multi-generational home recently completed by Melbourne- based Austin Maynard Architects. The client’s wanted a house they could live in for at least 25 years. They wanted a home that would grow with the family,…
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…
Dorman House is an old shack transformed into a comfortable home for a young family. The project was recently completed by Austin Maynard Architects.
Guild Architects have recently completed Yarraville Garden House, located in Yarraville, Melbourne. The client had a high degree of environmental consciousness with energy and water consumption, responsible materials use and landscape being key components of their brief.
Set within a relatively recent subdivision upon the side of Mt Martha, the Split House negotiates a complex range of conditions typical of emerging coastal developments. New houses for ‘downsizers’ in a suburban mode, paved driveways and…
