Genevieve Lilley is a practising architect. After working for 8 years for British architect Sir David Chipperfield, she opened her own practice in London in 1999 and in Sydney in 2005. She runs a small practice, specialising in a range of odd and unique projects. She also designs modern jewellery using coloured gems, continuing a 9-year creative directorship of renowned studio Venerari in Sydney’s Strand Arcade. Her architecture has been featured in The Sydney Morning Herald, Inside Out and Vogue Living. She has written for the Fifth Estate, Architectural Review, and Houses magazine.
Genevieve Lilley's Latest contributions
Randwick House by Anthony Gill Architects
Understated yet delightful, this clever update employs “stealth density” to adjust and augment a Sydney semi to suit a growing family of five.
Trilogy House by Peter Stutchbury
A third chapter for a house designed in 1961 by Peter Muller, with subsequent additions by Glenn Murcutt and Wendy Lewin, is a masterfully layered design that connects with the past, and with place.
Four houses of Chrofi
The skilfully planned residential work of this practice responds to the particularities of people and place, an approach underpinned by the directors’ expertise in city-making.
Astutely elegant: A House for an Artist
Beyond its modest, shed-like exterior, this secondary dwelling is both an expedient and elegant solution to small-scale living, providing its artist owner with a canvas to animate with light, life and art.
The landscape-defined houses of Fergus Scott Architects
Connection with the landscape is a central theme of Fergus Scott Architects’ residential designs, resulting in homes that are “very rich to the senses” and that offer easy transitions between spaces for openness and protection.
The houses of Polly Harbison Design
With a portfolio of singular and sculptural houses, this small Sydney studio distills complex ideas into an elemental architecture that is entirely devoid of trickery.
Lessons in colour: Ravenswood Senior Learning Centre
Designed by BVN, this new addition to Ravenswood School for Girls complements and reflects the site’s history and features a striking patina copper facade that is both classic and contemporary.
Bohemian legacy: The Hat Factory
In a once bohemian suburb of Sydney, a modest building that became a symbol for squatters’ rights has been sensitively renovated to retain its significance beyond its scale.
Marvellous town life: Cloud Cottage
In the Southern Highlands town of Bowral, a new cottage shirks polite defensiveness for porosity, contributing generously to its streetscape while also enabling quiet repose.
Master of constraint: Benn and Penna
Since Andrew Benn established Benn and Penna in 2012, the practice has mastered constrained conditions to make calm and considered spaces.