Architecture Australia, January 2016
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Dossier
Single house – no future?
A survey of Kerstin Thompson Architects’ house typologies conducted by the practice presents some design considerations for the single house of the future.
Reflection
Wynnstay Road
Debbie Ryan of McBride Charles Ryan reflects on the practice’s ambitious self-initiated apartment project in the inner Melbourne suburb of Prahran, fifteen years after its completion.
Moreton Bay Houses
Architect Brit Andresen reflects on her practice’s design for four dwellings within a shared territory in Moreton Bay, Queensland, completed in 2001.
Kununurra Transitional Housing
Architect Adrian Iredale reflects on Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects’ transitional housing project, which encourages home ownership for Indigenous families in Kununurra, Western Australia.
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AA January/February 2016 preview
An introduction to the January/February 2016 issue of Architecture Australia.
Urban osmosis: Three Marrickville Houses
David Boyle Architect delivers harmonious triplets on a complex urban site, where once a single house stood.
Modern trio: Terrace Houses in Fremantle
Combining playfulness, restrained minimalism and respect for the terrace house typology, Blane Brackenridge Architecture has created three “convincing” hillside dwellings in Fremantle, Western Australia.
Studios 54 by Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Projects
On a 126-square-metre site in suburban Sydney, Hill Thalis’s Studios 54 demonstrates how small sites can be used inventively to make the city richer and more diverse.
On the Architecture of Housing
Architect Philip Thalis explores the architecture of housing, as distinct from houses, and its contribution to the fabric of the city.
Life above lifestyle: Casba
Billard Leece Partnership and SJB Architects’ mixed-use project offers Sydney a new model for balancing private comfort and civic neighbourliness.
City life: Australia Towers
Bates Smart’s twin elliptical towers in Sydney’s Olympic Park present architecture as a positive force in city life.