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