Home of two faces, one relaxed and other more formal, Marrickville sees Baldwin & Bagnall give a curated and considered existing home in Sydney’s inner-city.
In just a few key architectural gestures, Studio Tate transforms a grand turn-of-the-century house into a family home that expertly balances character with elegance, & respect for the home’s heritage.
Resolute in form, with meticulous detailing and a restrained palette, Red Hill House by Mathieson Architects sees a sense of order carved out through connections to its formal gardens.
Sympathetically bridging the existing and the proposed, Canning Street House sees Techne infuse a contemporary edge to an existing Victorian-era home in Melbourne’s inner north.
Inspired by the bucolic landscape of Matakana, north of Auckland, Glamuzina Architects’ Matakana House explores ideas of prospect and refuge throughout the design.
Set amongst the sand dunes in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Dunes sees Whiting Architects bring a sense of cohesion to a previously rambling collection of spaces.
Double Life House designed by Breathe Architecture enables its residents to hide away from the hustle and bustle of the big Sydney city - for any owner, the home is a ‘fortress of solitude’.
M Penthouse exemplifies how honesty – to materiality, to the passage of time, and to the building’s original bones – can impart elegance and express nuance.
City Beach House combines the coastal home and the urban dwelling. Fearon Hay has graciously brought the differing styles together through a contemporary monochromatic lens.
Through subtle tonal shifts and the stripping of the non-essential, Wellard Architect’s Elsternwick House gives an existing Edwardian home a new life for its young family.
Ancona is a ten-year labour of love, which sees Steve Domoney, of Steve Domoney Architects, and his wife Lek take inspiration in the rural setting amidst rolling pastures.
Through simple volumes, linear geometries and an honest use of materials, Roseville Pavilions sees Benn & Penna extends an original home into the garden to create new connections.
Nestled into the surrounding bush landscape on edge of the beach, Gunyah House by Clinton Murray sees a tiered concrete structure with unspoilt views of the Port Hacking River anchored into the rock.
Franca House sees Myers Ellyett and Wrightson Stewart combine to carefully sculpt both the interior and exterior rooms of an existing home to flow consistently across thresholds.
Daylesford Long House sees Partners Hill fulfil the clients vision to embark the Palladian tradition of combining living, working, storage under one roof.
Responding to the site with an acute sensibility, House at Prickly Rocks is a play on duality between an inward-protection and outward-looking aspect, which emerges from and deliberately hugs the eart
JDA Studio’s Anzac Bay House celebrates and embraces the exceptional bay views through a sensitive approach to site and the surrounding unique and secluded context.
With a native rooftop garden as its primary elevation, Bundeena Beach House is a product of its context. Grove Architects has conjured a unique response nurturing a relationship between inside & out.
Treading the earth lightly, utilising the footprint of an existing dwelling, Oneroa House perches out over a steep site. Strachan Group Architects captures panoramic views over multiple levels.
Ian Bennett Design Studio's Concrete House stands out on a quiet cul-de-sac in Sydney's inner west, providing a concrete refuge on the suburban street.
Nestled at the foot of the Waitakere Ranges, Forest House by Fearon Hay is a project informed at every turn by the creative tensions between key aspects of the design.
Lansell House sees Neil Architecture carve out a sense of clarity between the old and new bringing a contemporary lightness to its contrasting heritage past.
On a working sheep farm on Tasmania’s North Bruny Island, John Wardle Architects’ Shearers Quarters sees a warm timber-lined structure, clad in corrugated iron, reinterpret the traditional design.
Wanaka Residence sees Three Sixty Architecture create a balanced rhythm through mechanisms of compression and release, that provide moments of intimacy and openness internally, and beyond.
A harmonious and thoughtful response to a complex challenge, Molecule Studio’s Winton House is a Victorian heritage home given new life via a contemporary two-storey extension.
Tasked with sensitively reworking the interior of a home designed originally by renowned architect Peter Stutchbury, Minosa’s approach was guided by the spectacular views of Sydney Harbour.
Green House by Daniel Marshall Architects combines restraint and a sense of the monolithic through select materiality to open up the threshold between inside and out whilst still being overtly private
Designed by DKO Architecture and Breathe Architecture for Defence Housing Australia (DHA) to champion sustainability and celebrate community, Arkadia is exemplary in its use of recycled materials.
Through natural materiality and an elegant geometric formal gesture, the Cabarita Conservatory by Sam Crawford Architects complements the natural environment to create a public space in Cabarita Park.
Three C Architects Mary Street Residence in Richmond transforms an aged workers cottage into a sleek minimal box form that takes in inspiration from modernist architecture.
Carefully responding to its site through contrasts and undulation, Leigh Bach by Scarlet Architects stretches out from the road to the cliff face, the journey from entry to the view undertaken through
We explore Workshop Architects’ Fawkner House, where an existing double-fronted Victorian house in South Yarra is given a new life, through a play on revealing and concealing tactics.
Tasked with transforming an existing 1980s extension to an original post-war bungalow into a contemporary home, Preston Lane utilised the existing bones of Parnell Façade House as the foundation.
Within a series of tight urban constraints, North Melbourne Terrace by Eldridge Anderson is a double volume alteration and addition to the rear of an existing Victorian terrace home.
Subiaco House sees Vokes and Peters Architects propose a contemporary take on the cottage vernacular, while adding to the rich and established character of its garden suburb.
River Retreat by Edwards White Architects is a study in simplicity. The contemporary light-filled family home, in Taupiri, New Zealand, captures a casual informality and embraces its surroundings.
Injecting a sense of calm into existing Victorian single-fronted home in Melbourne inner-north North Fitzroy Terrace sees Freadman White apply acute organic sensibilities to extend dilapidated shell.
On a sloping terrace in the shadow of snow-dusted mountain ranges Fearon Hay’s Alpine Terrace is a place dedicated to contemplation and protection within a landscape as harsh as it is sublime.
A concrete shell of irregular geometry informed by the landscape’s tectonics, Castle Cove House takes its cues from Californian mid-century architecture.
Following the contour of the hillside it sits upon, Spacecraft Architects’ Top Shelf sees a small footprint extruded to create a light-footed home in Wellington.
True to its name, Tree House sees a play on opening and closing elements layered through a series of filtered timber expressions, fulfilling the clients’ wish to live amongst the trees.
Kieron Gait Architects’ Balmoral Gully House references the dappled light of the adjacent canopies and gully as an inspiration for the resulting architectural response.
Demonstrating a love of timber in all its textures, tones and colours, Point Wells Gables House outwardly takes its cues from the gabled barn of the local rural vernacular.
Patterson Associates’ Parihoa sees the idea of a modern outpost or fort articulated in the form of a robust farmhouse, overlooking its rugged and uncompromising coast.
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