This family wanted a heritage home beneath Table Mountain to actually work for the way they live now, so walls came down and the kitchen became the real centre of the house, a working room that also holds the everyday mess of family life.

Custom oak joinery sits alongside a honed marble island and brass hardware, and the extractor hood is plastered straight into the ceiling, so it just reads as part of the room instead of a box sitting on top of it.

This client took on a compact double-volume apartment in Mutual Heights, the landmark Art Deco building on Darling Street, and the height was the thing worth building around. A mezzanine bedroom now floats above the living space, reached by an open stair, and the original parquet floors stayed exactly as they were.

Sage green joinery wraps the kitchen and stair, and the furniture was chosen to be light on its feet so a small footprint never feels like a small apartment.

Barrows needed an 860m² warehouse converted into one environment that could hold a workspace, a fitness centre, and a coffee shop, and the brief was for the people who work there every day rather than for visitors passing through.

A padel court sits in open view of the lounge, the café doubles as informal meeting space, and the workspace looks onto both. The original steel structure and roof trusses stay exposed, wrapped in blackened timber battens and mesh screens that divide the space without ever closing it off.