Tag: Revisited

The ideals of holism inspired the design, in which house and landscape are interconnected.
Projects | Peter Reilly | 2 Feb 2024

Revisited: The Treehouse by Christine Vadasz Architect

Nestled into the hillside above Wategos Beach in Byron Bay, the home Christine Vadasz designed for her young family in 1977 was a testing ground for a holistic approach to environmental design. Almost 50 years after it was completed, it endures as an unpretentious example of architecture in equilibrium with landscape.

Principal living spaces are on the first floor, taking advantage of the home’s elevated site.
Projects | Matt Goodman | 10 Nov 2023

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.

The addition reordered the relationship between the existing cottage and its garden.
Projects | Aaron Peters | 4 Aug 2023

Revisited: HH House by Donovan Hill, 1993

Unencumbered by convention and brimming with ambition, this remarkable addition to a Brisbane cottage is likened by its owners to “living in an artwork.”

First designed as an office, Azalea House was adapted a few years later to accommodate the main residence for client Pam Cleland.
Projects | Stuart Symons | 13 Apr 2023

Revisited: Azalea House by John Chappel

This treetop house in Adelaide’s hilly eastern suburbs was designed in the early 1960s by John Chappel is a crisp and functional design that endures as a legacy of one of Adelaide’s most important modernist architects.

The house comprises two pavilions, one for living and the other for sleeping.
Projects | Katelin Butler | 9 Jan 2023

Revisited: Marie Short House (1974) by Glenn Murcutt

This farmhouse in Kempsey in northern New South Wales is a seminal work, much admired both in Australia and abroad. Modest, flexible and adaptable to climate, it endures as a model for responsive, responsible design.

Buried deep in the bush in the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag, the house is open to the landscape on all sides. Ceramic: Jo Boag
Projects | Peter Lonergan | 17 Aug 2022

Revisited: Glass House by Bill and Ruth Lucas

Designed in 1957 by Bill and Ruth Lucas, the Glass House was a radical experiment in living. Elevated on its sloping Castlecrag site, the building was both a prototype for an economical structural system and a vision for life lived in the landscape.

Located in Pretty Beach on the New South Wales Central Coast, Lobster Bay House was designed as a tranquil holiday home in the bush.
Projects | Jemima Retallack | 30 May 2022

Revisited: Lobster Bay House

Designed by Ian McKay for photojournalist David Moore, Lobster Bay House (1972) sustains an elemental occupation of its remarkable, rocky site. Carefully preserved over the decades, the house endures as a cherished retreat for Moore’s family.

The Fisher House, designed in 1970 by Alistair Knox, has been carefully renovated by Adriana Hanna. Artworks (L–R): Emily Ferretti, Zoe Grey.
Projects | Tobias Horrocks | 2 May 2022

Revisited: Fisher House

In the bushy Melbourne suburb of Warrandyte, the modular design of Alistair Knox’s Fisher House (1970) has been sensitively updated to retain its celebration of the unique Australian light and the surrounding “sun-evolved” landscape.

The house is wrapped around a courtyard that serves as the main entry from the south.
Projects | Helen Norrie | 18 Feb 2022

Revisited: Courtyard House by Bill Shugg

After hiring a plane to “block spot” over Hobart in the 1960s, Tasmanian architect Bill Shugg found the ideal site in the garden of a grand colonial house. The modernist home he built there for his family is little changed today.

Kessell House reveals Iwanoff’s signature use of concrete block, encompassing the entire site.
Projects | Stuart Harrison | 4 Feb 2022

Revisited: Kessell House by Iwan Iwanoff

Designed in 1975 by celebrated émigré architect Iwan Iwanoff, this residence in the Perth suburb of Dianella signals Iwanoff’s evolution toward his characteristic, highly expressive architecture.

The designs at Vermont Park (pictured today) and other Merchant Builders subdivisions disrupted the standardized model that dominated post-war Australian suburbia.
Projects | Alan Pert | 11 Jan 2022

Revisited: Vermont Park

In the1960s and ’70s, Merchant Builders used the suburbs to experiment with innovative, affordable housing models. Today, Vermont Park remains an exemplar for how we might rethink residential development.

The house consists of rectilinear forms that recede quietly into the landscape.
Projects | Linda Cheng | 26 Nov 2021

Revisited: Beddison Swift House, 1963

As one of only a handful of houses completed during the short-lived partnership between Neil Clerehan and Guilford Bell, this understated residence, completed in 1963, is an intriguing and enduring model for multigenerational living.

Cavill House embraces the Gold Coast’s climate and outdoor lifestyle, encouraging social engagement between house and street.
Projects | Matthew Eagle | 19 Nov 2021

Revisited: Cavill House

In postwar Brisbane, local practice Hayes and Scott was a leading proponent of a regional modernism attuned to the sub-tropical climate. Built in 1978, Cavill House in Gold Coast’s Runaway Bay is modest, climatically astute yet also playful, and a delightful example of the practice’s experimental coastal architecture.

Carefully sited on a sandstone escarpment, Rickard Studio is a synthesis of architecture and nature. Artwork: Stephen Coburn.

Revisited: Rickard Studio

Two reflections – by Lollie Barr, and Peter Lonergan and Hugo Chan – capture the story of Rickard Studio, a home shaped by a lineage of thoughtful design by eminent Sydney architects Ian McKay and Bruce Rickard.

Stepping down a ridge in Sydney’s Castle Hill, the house is enveloped by the natural landscape.
Projects | Peter Salhani | 13 Aug 2021

Revisited: Reid House

This remarkable Sydney residence was designed by Bruce Rickard in 1961 for clients who were captivated by a fictional house in an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.

Richard Leplastrier’s Palm Garden House nestles seamlessly into the shelter of surrounding trees.
Projects | Peter Salhani | 6 Aug 2021

Revisited: Palm Garden House

Enduring without imposing, Richard Leplastrier’s influential Palm Garden House thoughtfully coexists with plants and animals alike on its lush, vibrant site.

The surrounding trees make their shadow-play across the home’s rough-cast surface.
Projects | Michael Roper | 7 May 2021

Paul Couch’s Toolern Vale revisited

Having worked under Robin Boyd, Paul Couch has all the markings of a significant Australian modernist, despite being known to few. In Toolern Vale, the home he built some 50 years ago for his family in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges Shire, his sculptural and singular expression takes permanence in the landscape.

The living spaces are edged by a deep, timber bench that subtly connects the interior to the gently undulating site.
Projects | Jason Haigh | 19 Mar 2021

Revisited: Wilson Beach House

Wilson Beach House on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast offers an enduring example of elegant and expressive Australian design.

The barrel-vaulted ceiling and porthole apertures at Paddington House are inspired by the work of the iconic Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
Projects | Peter Salhani | 29 Oct 2020

Revisited: Paddington House

Designed for a steeply sloping site in an inner Sydney suburb, Ken Woolley’s Paddington House, completed in 1980, is a love letter to the modernist architect’s wife, Virginia Braden Woolley.

Enveloped by a broad gable roof, Porter House is designed across a split-level plan that works with the fall of the site.
Projects | Simon Reeves | 11 Mar 2020

Revisited: Porter House

Located in Warrandyte, Victoria, Porter House launched the practice of young mid-century architect Albert Ross, who had cut his teeth working at celebrated studio Grounds, Romberg and Boyd.

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