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Type - Alts and adds
Year completed - 2015
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The striking timber facade facing the backyard takes inspiration from the recognizable work of Louis Kahn.

Confidence and conviction: Rainworth Hill House

Engaging with a traditional Queenslander in a contemporary way, this home is a progression of spaces, with intersecting sightlines to its neighbourhood at one end.

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Wooden Box House by Moloney Architects.

Framework for living: Wooden Box House

With its emphasis on durability, natural materials and pops of colour, this addition to a 1910 weatherboard house in regional Victoria is a domestic retreat perfectly suited to the vicissitudes of everyday life.

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A two-storey-high sheet of fine stainless steel mesh fabric slides across to protect the living areas from the harsh western sun.

Curtain call: Hiro-En House

A unique design element brings this home by Matt Gibson Architecture + Design into the twenty-first century while preserving and celebrating the original Victorian home.

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A stacked-stone feature wall provides a warm and textured backdrop to the living area, complemented by large-scale artworks. Artwork: Michael Peck.

Crafting perfection: Bayside Residence

This highly crafted addition to an Edwardian home retains the existing building’s dignified formality while offering robust new spaces for celebrating contemporary family life.

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The house now connects directly to the north-facing rear courtyard. Artwork: Beret.

Space graft: Dolls House

Day Bukh Architects has created an addition to a Federation-style bungalow in Sydney’s Randwick by carefully cutting, folding and suturing the new fabric into the old.

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Narrow site restrictions caused the new kitchen, dining and living areas to be housed in a single rectangular volume.

Scandinavian elegance: Carlisle Extension

Sans-Arc Studio creates a Scandinavian-inspired extension to a 1920s worker’s cottage in Adelaide that gives the owners a home they can “wake up and feel really happy in.”

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Elements of the existing dwelling, including hardwood structure and cladding and steel-framed windows, provided “good bones” for the new works.

Into the Labyrinth: Dornoch Terrace House

A “nearly derelict squat” has been transformed into a labyrinthian dwelling that celebrates the work of an artist who once called the site home.

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A timber-framed pergola, accessible through both the rumpus and living spaces, is an ideal spot for children to play.

Garden pavilion: Canada Bay House

A flexible home with a diversity of spatial moods and experiences: Canada Bay House.

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The back of the home is configured into a series of orderly layers that work with the slope of the site.

An ‘escaped undercroft’: Camp Hill Extension

An interesting model for alterations and additions to a Queenslander home: Camp Hill Extension by Neilsen Workshop and Morgan Jenkins Architecture.

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The tectonics of the new addition follow a simple, expressive logic similar to that of the existing dwelling.

Living alfresco: Bath House

Stephen de Jersey Architect has extended the spatial and material characteristics of an old Queenslander to result in a striking yet respectful addition with delightful settings for everyday living.

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The addition references the rectilinear forms of the existing part of the house.

Through the looking glass: Garth House

Ola Studio take cues, but not directly, from the existing 1880s home to create Garth House.

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An outdoor room to the west of the living area is reserved purely to celebrate a fig tree.

The simple life: Myrtle Tree House

Renovations have breathed new life into a Californian bungalow, stitching it into the garden, while respecting the character of the much-loved existing dwelling.

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Located in the original dwelling, the refreshed kitchen takes design cues from the extension, improving the connection between old and new.

The long hall: Carlton Cloister

With a compelling ten-metre-long, red brick hallway that offers far more than circulation space, this extension to a Victorian terrace shows just how much can be achieved with a small footprint.

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The graphic rear elevation of this extension to a Californian bungalow is a play in roof forms, materials, texture and colour.

Suburban dialogue: Hip and Gable House

Architecture Architecture’s extension of a Californian bungalow in Melbourne creates a harmonious dialogue between old and new while fostering social engagement.

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The ceiling angles down into an asymmetrical butterfly shape, adding theatricality and drawing the eye upward.

Compress and release: Tunnel House

In replacing an old lean-to with a clever garden pavilion, the architect has honoured the owners’ love for the outdoors as well as the environmentally conscious approach he has long championed.

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The kitchen, once a dark and “daggy” room, is now an extension of the dining space, showered in sunlight. Artwork (at right): Richard Paul Lohse.

Small wonder: Tivoli Terrace

Small but clever alterations have been made to a house on a tiny site, opening the interior to the courtyard and giving a new meaning to the concept of “in.”

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The protrusion of treads at the bottom of some flights hints at the possibility of vertical movement and unseen rooms beyond.

Light box: Centripetal House

Panov Scott’s renovation to a nineteenth-century terrace house arouses curiosity and encourages exploration.

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The modest nature of the original house allowed an elegant but playful aesthetic to unfold freely in the interior.

A punch above: Malvern Residence

A modest 1970s brick house in Melbourne’s inner south-east is given a renewed, quiet confidence.

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