AWARDS

A courtyard house set on a large coastal site on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula has been named Australian House of the Year in the 2023 Houses Awards.

Merricks Farmhouse by Michael Lumby with Nielsen Jenkins.

Blok Stafford Heights by Blok Modular with Vokes and Peters.

Spring Street by March Studio.

Armadale House by Neeson Murcutt Neille.

Sunday by Architecture Architecture.

Coogee Courtyard by Saha.

Millers Point Townhouse by Design 5 Architects.

Monty Sibbel by Nuud Studio.

Saha.

For the first time in Houses Awards history, one house has taken home an unprecedented three categories as well as the the award’s top honour, the Australian House of the Year.

Robust and refined, elegant and effortless, this house is a study in how we can live with spirited connectedness.

This exceptional house elevates the homeowners’ experience of an already spectacular site, crafting spaces of surprise, warmth, drama and delight.

An imaginative reworking of the humble terraced house with richness in every room and generosity to the public realm.

A visually recessive addition is cleverly grafted onto a characterful Queensland cottage.

Carefully crafted and finely detailed, this home provides for adaptable modes of living that meets all modern demands.

This radical reworking of a 1960s apartment allows for new engagement with the city, and dynamic social interaction.

Comprising a series of outdoor rooms, this home maximizes the potential for landscape connection.

This home exemplifies the sustainable ideal of doing more with less and delivers an oasis-like family home.

This promising young studio creates rich residential spaces that demonstrate deft understanding of sensory qualities.

A genius and resourceful home where every detail is carefully considered and immense joy can be found in small architectural moments.

The garden of this home consists of a series of eight courtyards, each a carefully choreographed experience.

A joyous and elegant project that celebrates a neglected and overlooked typology in Australian cities.

The winning home not only benefits the young family that lives there, it also enriches its neighbourhood.

The architects’ whole-of-site approach to the transformation of a Brisbane cottage easily facilitated the life within.

Three homes lie within a 197-square-metre footprint – a primary house, a studio and a granny flat or teenager’s retreat.

This home is made of mostly recycled materials, it produces its own energy and collects its own water.

A modest house in an “unremarkable but incredibly familiar” Gold Coast suburb has clinched the top prize in the 2020 Houses Awards.

The winning project celebrates a simple life and the capacity of modest architecture to impact significantly on the way we live.

The jury lauded this small, humble project, adding that it “delivers something that we need to see more of in our cities.”