Issue No. 4

October 2020

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Issue No. 04 of The Local Project is a substantial volume of over 330 pages of articles, interviews and photography. Including new projects by Richards & Spence, studiofour, Room11, Templeton Architecture and Brad Swartz Architects and more. Issue No. 04 also represents the first time that veteran Australian architect Paul Couch’s work has been published in print. Profiles on Rufus Knight of Knight Associates, grazia&co, Shannon McGrath and more are also included. Featured on the cover, La Scala by Richards & Spence tells the story of an ambitious vision for a small site tucked into an inner-city pocket of Brisbane. It is a building that challenges assumptions about residential architecture and embodies seemingly conflicting dualities – something the project does with ease.

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Cremasco House – Paul Couch

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Though Paul Couch has maintained a low profile throughout his long career, his work has been quietly revered over the years by those who have encountered it. Most of his buildings remain undescribed, but Cremasco House, completed in 2008, was photographed by Tom Ross for a forthcoming book on Paul’s work currently being written by architects Michael Roper and James Maguvin. A mixed-use building in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges, Cremasco House is a prominent later project in the oeuvre of an architect whose work is only now beginning to be given deeper consideration.

La Scala – Richards & Adrian Spence

La Scala tells the story of an ambitious vision for a small site tucked into an inner-city pocket of Brisbane. The home of architects Ingrid Richards and Adrian Spence, it is a building that challenges assumptions about residential architecture, subtropical design and the use of urban sites to craft a more adaptable, enduring and exciting response.

Koonya Pavilion – Room11 Architects

No architecture can make a landscape as soul-stirringly beautiful as the coastline of the Tasman Peninsula more powerful, but the right building can distil and heighten the experience of inhabiting such a place. Setting out to capture the elemental qualities of this experience, Room11 took a reductive approach to the design until all that remained of the building were four glass walls and two parallel planes of equal area that offer shelter overhead and support underfoot. The resulting glass pavilion sits as an object in the landscape, its exposed nature intensifying awareness of the site’s nuances.

Brunswick Lean-To – Blair Smith Architecture

Modest in scale, discrete in form, and holding the key functional areas of the home, Brunswick Lean-To fulfils many criteria of the structures that form almost ubiquitous appendices to Melbourne’s period housing stock. Yet the project is not merely the traditional lean-to redux. Rather, Blair Smith Architecture has deliberately combined elements of the lean-to with thoughtful detailing and enduring materiality to create a contextually appropriate addition to a Victorian cottage.

The Sussex House – Templeton Architecture

Taking cues from its heritage and storied past, The Sussex House unites the existing detailing with newly crafted elements that celebrate a sense of harmony and encourage movement. Templeton Architecture combines an intuitively responsive approach with a heightened and refined resolve.

Central Park Road Residence II – Studiofour

With a calm palette, abundant fresh air and natural light, apposite spaces, and green outlooks, Central Park Road Residence II is a home that takes the wellbeing of its inhabitants to heart. Studiofour unites the stately Federation-era home with a contemporary new addition to create a subtle, fluid experience of old and new.

The Carringbush Hotel – DesignOffice

Within the walls of a Victorian-era pub in Abbotsford, Melbourne, DesignOffice has created an elegant fashion showroom that doubles as a private residence. A paredback approach to restoring the clarity of the spaces from beneath years of accumulated alterations and additions is complemented by a series of considered contemporary insertions that come to represent the building’s layers of history.

Stealth Pavilion – Plus Minus Design

As its namesake suggests, Stealth Pavilion sits suitably disguised in its landscape, concealing its presence through select materiality. Plus Minus Design carefully integrates a multifunction volume into an established heritage-listed garden setting, combining a refined and contemporary approach.

Basement Apartment – Brad Swartz Architects

Defying all expectations of a small Victorian-era apartment set below street-level on a busy thoroughfare in Potts Point, Basement Apartment is a calm and light-filled pied-àterre that balances a minimalist approach with an embrace of the building’s heritage.

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