Tag: Residential
The passion projects of Alvar and Aino Aalto’s own home
A visit to the Aalto House in Finland, designed in 1936 by a young Alvar and Aino Aalto, is a lesson in experimentation and delighting in the imperfect.
OM1 and Mobile Studio by Dimensions X
With traditional construction methods beset by time and cost uncertainties, the time is ripe to explore alternatives. This prefabricated house is assembled in just three weeks.
Five Phillip Island holiday homes
We round up five houses on Victoria’s Phillip Island, to see how architects have responded to the island’s beach culture, the wind-swept landscapes and endemic structures.
Alexander House by Trace Architects
In this extract from The New Modernist House, author Patricia Callan discovers how this 1958 standout example of the new modern living was brought back from near death through an immense 12-year labour of love.
M House by Rama Architects
Taking inspiration from Brazilian modernist design principles, this secluded family home by Rama Architects recedes discreetly into its backdrop on the verdant shoreline of Sydney’s Clareville Beach.
Quarry Box by MCK Architects
Changing constraint to opportunity, the design of this new home turns a Sydney site edged with a jagged sandstone face into a private setting well suited to family life.
Revisited: Beach House, Wye River by Col Bandy
Reminiscent of a treehouse, this 1992 beach house, designed in 1992 by Col Bandy, employed efficient construction to minimize its impact on the site. Today, it is evocative of the simple pleasures of a seaside weekender.
Australia’s best houses of 2023
The Australian Institute of Architects announced the winners of the 2023 National Architecture Awards on 31 October, in which eight houses were honoured for their ingenuity and imagination.
Armidale Residence by Richards Stanisich
This new house in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales recalls the clients’ former farmhouse and provides a secluded sanctuary shielded from the street view.
James Garden Pavilion by UME Architecture
Set in the subtropical verdure of Brisbane’s New Farm, this outdoor room is an ornamental frame of blockwork and foliage that contributes to an elevated, extroverted domestic life.
Spring Creek Road Farm House by Architect Brew Koch
On a farm in Victoria’s Golden Plains that operates as a biodiversity offset, this house is at once uncanny and homely, creating a restful base for taking care of the land.
Westgarth House by Michael McKeon Architecture
A light-washed addition to an Edwardian dwelling retains the warmth and character of a much-loved family home, ready for the next generation’s memories and milestones.
Kabina Tiny Home by Facundo Ochoa
This deceptively simple A-frame cabin deploys flat-pack fabrication and DIY assembly to respond to a burgeoning global mobility and the movement toward a circular economy.
Casuarina Garden by Prandium Studio with Vokes and Peters
The garden at a new house on the Tweed coast is a subtropical romance, with house and outdoor room lying in delicate concert.
Bungalow by Other Architects
A “make-do and mend” approach renews a bungalow in the Southern Highlands, fine-tuning the home to provide greater independence for a family of four.
River Hearth House by Arcke
Rebuffing the temptation of the singular view, this new house evokes memories of the site’s past occupation to craft a place for living and making on the Brisbane River.
Monty Sibbel by Nuud Studio
A deft revival of a 1970s project home respects the scale and materiality of the original house, impelled by Sibbel Builders’ underlying ethos of sensitive homes that do more with less.
Balmain House by Saha
An elegant pavilion addition to a Sydney cottage resolves a sloping site and incites its occupants to find delight in inhabiting the building’s edges.
First House: Honeydew by Sparks Architects
In the design of their own home on the Sunshine Coast, Dan and Margo Sparks relished the chance to investigate sustainable design and construction. Dan looks back on the lessons they learnt about efficient, small-scale living.
The Redoutable by Virginia Kerridge Architect
This meticulous adaptation of a Georgian terrace in a tightly protected heritage precinct has seen layers removed, revealed and revived in a fine composition of old and new.
