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Issue No. 7 - 9

These three issues of The Local Project showcase exceptional works from leading Australian and international architects, including Jack McKinney Architects, Ha Architecture, Workroom and James Stockwell Architect. Featured projects from renowned firms such as John Wardle Architects, Woods Bagot, Shaun Lockyer Architects, Edition Office, Tecture, Crosson Architects and MRTN Architects offer an inspiring look at contemporary design across the globe.

Each issue spans over 300 pages of meticulously curated content, with in-depth articles, exclusive interviews and stunning photography. Profiles of influential creatives like stylist Megan Morton, artist Stanislava Pinchuk and artist Helen Redmond provide a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse into their processes and innovative practices.

With insights from an esteemed collection of architects and designers, these issues are a must-have for anyone seeking to explore the forefront of modern architecture and design.

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Inside Issue No. 7

House at Flat Rock
Billy Maynard

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The first impression of House at Flat Rock is not a house at all, but rather a densely planted meadow-like garden that spills out to the street. To the fore of the site, on the east, stands a group of mature olive trees and behind, to the west, the presence of Conjola National Park looms large. Linking the two, a narrow stone-paved path traverses the northern edge of the meadow. This arrangement defines the most immediate and prescient qualities of the context whereby the building – a discreet series of volumes strung along three edges of the site – is experienced. It is an abiding humility that informs each considered gesture and remarkable detail of a home whose appointed purpose is to create a complete immersion in nature.

Waterview
John Wardle Architects

Two buildings companionably occupy a hillside at Waterview, a historic 540-hectare sheep farm on Tasmania’s Bruny Island. Though both were completed within the last decade – The Shearers Quarters in 2012 and Captain Kelly’s Cottage in 2016 – each is superimposed upon traces of what came before, some physically evident and others mere ghosts of memory. The much-lauded work of John Wardle Architects, the buildings embody the intersection of both the site’s layers of history and its contemporary evolution, as over the past 20 years it has been extensively revegetated and become something of a testing ground for the practice.

St Andrews Beach
Woods Bagot

Carefully placed above the sand dunes of St Andrews Beach, the understated holiday home of Nik Karalis, CEO of Woods Bagot, was always understood as an incremental project that would evolve and grow with its occupants over decades. Almost 25 years since the first structure was built in 1997, the initial form of the house – two small volumes separated by a breezeway – has remained legible across three subsequent stages of development, which transformed the building from a simple shack to an expansive villa on a fragile, exposed coastal site.

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Bunkeren
James Stockwell Architect

The earth-filled concrete plates of Bunkeren are balanced carefully on a coastal site within the unceded lands of the Awabakal people in Whitebridge, a southern suburb of Newcastle. The project is an incredibly photogenic study in concrete textures and form, containing subtle nods to the kinds of architectural references one might expect from a collaboration between experienced architect James Stockwell and Danish-Australian clients with an eye for design. Yet the building is far more than just finely crafted details and dramatic concrete cantilevers. At its heart, Bunkeren attempts to actively dismantle the object qualities of the architecture in favour of ambiguous, landscape-driven spaces of discovery and inhabitation.

N House
Partners Hill

Constructed in 2002, N House has been quietly occupying its Brisbane hillside site for two decades. It is not a heroic building, able to be understood and admired at a single glance. Rather, it is a place that has been exactingly designed to be experienced gradually, whether that be over one visit or in the course of a lifetime’s inhabitation. Timothy Hill describes the project as “a garden with a building at its edges.” Like all gardens, it has taken season after season to mature, so though the building is 20 years old, he considers it to be still only “almost finished”. This unhurried approach is indicative of the central objective underpinning all his work – namely, that it should have the capacity to support a minimum 75 years of continuous use.

Eastbourne
Eastop Architects

Sculpted by the constraints of its tight, inner-suburban site in Melbourne’s Windsor, Eastbourne is an introspective home that skilfully balances privacy and connection. Eastop Architects eschews typical notions of domestic space in favour of hybridised atmospheres for living, offering a reposeful home of unexpected scale and amenity.

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Inside Issue No. 9

Northside House
Wellard Architects

A home for a family of entertainers, with its legible form and honest material palette, Northside House embodies generosity and warmth. Placing the new additions in conversation with the original Federation home, Wellard Architects has created a place that is by its very nature inclusive and balanced. While providing a high degree of privacy and refuge befitting of its urban environment, the architecture is intrinsically approachable, welcoming friends and neighbours dropping by, hosting large social gatherings or simply embracing family moments with equal ease.

Fitzroy North
Auhaus Architecture

Referencing and reinterpreting the details of neighbouring Victorian-era terraces, Auhaus Architecture stitched the heritage streetscape back together with the modern yet timeless façade. Behind this seemingly petite front is an expansive five-bedroom home surrounded by outdoor space.

Coromandel Bach
Crosson Architects

As a capture of the ebb and flow of the seasons and the removed siting of the structure, Coromandel Bach has been opening and closing to the elements for the past 21 years. The responsive and adaptive insertion in the landscape is the beach house that Ken Crosson, Founding Director of Crosson Architects, designed for his family and has been sharing with them ever since.

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