Houses, August 2012
HousesThe best contemporary residential architecture, with inspirational ideas from leading architects and designers.
People
Andrew Maynard Architects
Energetic and inventive projects responding to client and context with humour and wit.
Material palette: Andrew Maynard Architects
Products, textures and finishes chosen by Andrew Maynard Architects to help bring imaginative ideas to life.
Reading
Tom Kundig: Houses 2
Inventive details and rich materials are used on stunning sites to create the seventeen homes featured in this book.
Home: Evolution of the Australian Dream
Will current housing models be sufficient in the future?
Government House Sydney
The rich design history of Government House in Sydney is unravelled in this book.
Sunday’s Garden: Growing Heide
A journey through the gardens surrounding the Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Awards
2012 Houses Awards: Australian House of the Year
Shearer’s Quarters by John Wardle Architects wins Australian House of the Year at the 2012 Houses Awards.
2012 Houses Awards: New House over 200m2
Big Hill by Kerstin Thompson Architects wins New House over 200m2 at the 2012 Houses Awards.
2012 Houses Awards: New House under 200m2
Shearer’s Quarters by John Wardle Architects wins New House under 200m2 at the 2012 Houses Awards.
2012 Houses Awards: Alteration & Addition over 200m2
Annandale House by CO-AP wins Alteration & Addition over 200m2 at the 2012 Houses Awards.
2012 Houses Awards: Alteration & Addition under 200m2
Four-Room Cottage by Owen & Vokes wins House Alteration and Addition under 200m2 at the 2012 Houses Awards.
2012 Houses Awards: Apartment, Unit or Townhouse
Airlie Bank by Neometro with McAllister Alcock Architects wins Apartment, Unit or Townhouse at the 2012 Houses Awards.
2012 Houses Awards: Heritage
Rooftop Pavilion by Andrew Burges Architecture wins Heritage at the 2012 Houses Awards.
2012 Houses Awards: Outdoor
Marimekko House by Ariane Prevost Architect wins Outdoor at the 2012 Houses Awards.
2012 Houses Awards: Sustainability
House Reduction by Make Architecture Studio wins Sustainability at the 2012 Houses Awards.
2012 Houses Awards: High Commendations
2012 Houses Awards high commendations announced.
Product
Houses picks: Milan 2012
Houses magazine’s favourites from the 2012 Milan Furniture Fair.
Projects
Cliff Face House
Fergus Scott and Peter Stutchbury collaborate on a Sydney house straddling the bush and bay at Pittwater.
Union Street House by Clare Cousins Architects
Clare Cousins Architects give a Melbourne Edwardian house a bold new addition.
Finn House
WoodWoodWard Architecture’s first project is a playful, contemporary take on mainstream domestic forms.
Courtyard House
Studio Moore adds a meticulously crafted pavilion to a heritage house in Gippsland.
Karboora House
O’Neill Architecture gives an island retreat a down to earth feel by splitting the program across two low-rise pavilions.
Revisited
Bandy House & Studio (1974) revisited
Architect-builder Col Bandy’s unfinished symphony.
Postscript
Chicken coop
A student project by Chris Mullaney: rethinking a backyard chicken coup in the town of Stroud, NSW.