Houses, June 2010
HousesThe best contemporary residential architecture, with inspirational ideas from leading architects and designers.
People
Material palette: McBride Charles Ryan
The distinctive projects of McBride Charles Ryan are finished with an equally bold suite of materials.
Reading
Ando: Complete Works 1975–2010
The work of renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando is something to be celebrated
21st Century Beach Houses
Beach houses are often the site of intensive design exploration. Over fifty beach houses from around the world are profiled.
Monochrome
A set of projects that have all been designed around the use of one colour.
Studio
Owen & Vokes
Brisbane architecture practice Owen and Vokes deftly applies its inimitable aesthetic to a neat furniture collection for Small Australian Projects.
Yuta Badayala
Koskela’s collection of simple pendant lights wrapped in the light and intricately woven patterns of Arnhem Island tradition.
Sustainability
Brighton Compact Green House
Stars are the common language for sustainability these days, but don’t be fooled; a five-star house is not the same as a five-star movie. The …
Projects
Beached House
Two forms twist and collide as this holiday retreat by BKK Architects responds to the elements and welcomes the family.
Hill End Eco House
Conrad Gargett Riddel recycled 80 percent of a timber cottage to create a sustainability exemplar.
Point Piper House
Mark Pearse’s selective editing of a 1980s Sydney home is a sophisticated and subtle response to hillside and harbour.
The Lighthouse
A light-filled three-level addition enlivens a 1960s brick box, tucked into the eucalypt forests of Brisbane’s foothills.
Stirling Residence: The Ark
Mac-Interactive’s ambitious use of a corner site results in a neighbourhood playground and stage set.
Courtyard House
A desire to avoid architectural showboating drove Workshop Architecture’s design for a pared-back Melbourne home.
Bonnet Hill & Fern Tree houses
Dock4’s pair of small, low-cost houses in Tasmanian bush settings embody the pleasures of experimenting with volume manipulation.
Clifton Gardens House
A Sydney house in off-form concrete by Louise Nettleton angles dramatically out its harbour view.
Hawthorn Residence
A Victorian terrace in Melbourne’s inner east, refurbished by Layan Design.
Pool Pavilion
Alwill takes a multidimensional view of a site for maximum enjoyment.
Postscript
Illums Box
Explore the possibilities of changing light and shade in a structure designed for the 2009 Sculptures By the Sea exhibition.
Revisited
Brighton House (1968) revisited
A modest yet masterful Neil Clerehan house in Brighton.