Houses, October 2019
HousesThe best contemporary residential architecture, with inspirational ideas from leading architects and designers.
In Profile
‘It’s all about people’: Rob Kennon Architects
The consistent body of work by Rob Kennon Architects is bolstered by the belief that the people they design for and other collaborators are the most interesting impetus for architecture.
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Safe harbour: Vikki’s Place
In responding to the client’s need for a home that caters to a unique family structure, Curious Practice have achieved a fluid and unfussy home that acts as a refuge in more ways than one.
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One to watch: Winwood McKenzie
Thom Mckenzie of Winwood Mckenzie formed his Melbourne-based studio after working in New York and Milan. His approach is based on an intimate understanding of the construction process and interrogating how things are built.
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Bushland machine: Osborne House
With a panorama of bush and water as its backdrop, the design for this house, built in 1995, uses materials and details reminiscent of wooden boatbuilding to immerse those who dwell there in the magic of the surrounds.
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First house: Clare Cousins Architects
Clad in pleated copper, this addition to a Federation-era house was the first “real” commission for architect Clare Cousins, who reflects on how projects like this one went on to become a staple for the practice.
Meet the owners of Redfern Warehouse by Ian Moore Architects
After a decade-long search for a warehouse space to turn into a family home, Ryan engaged Ian to create a house with a “beautiful clean style” that could also function as a home office.
A different kind of apartment building: Sussex
With an emphasis on design quality and detailing, this home by Powell and Glenn and Mim Design fuses the classic and contemporary to reimagine apartment living as generous and bespoke.
Quality over ostentation: Balmoral House
A series of stacked interconnected volumes that carefully negotiate a tricky wedge-shaped site provided the solution for a client wishing to downsize their home without compromising amenity.
A Design Studio
Designer Alex Fitzpatrick channels his fascination for the scientific and poetic aspects of light into his own collection of decorative fixtures and objects.
Natural connection: Bundeena Beach House
On a rocky outcrop at the eastern edge of a secluded beach south of Sydney, this house maximizes opportunities to connect with the spectacular natural environment that surrounds it.
Hard worker: Albert Park Terrace
This renovation of an inner-Melbourne terrace by Wellard Architects cleverly navigates the site’s constrained footprint, employing key architectural moves that make for an efficient and uplifting family home.
Lessons in scale, proportion and materiality: Albert Villa
Responding to its heritage context and inner-Brisbane neighbourhood, this addition to a historic weatherboard cottage captures vistas from new living spaces arranged around a landscaped courtyard.
Volume and drama: White House
This crisp addition to a Federation home exuberantly manoeuvres light, space and monochrome materials to masterfully meet the brief.
The new granny flat
Making a case for “right-sized” housing, three secondary dwelling designs illustrate how granny flats are being reinterpreted as site-responsive and sustainable spaces that alleviate contemporary demands on our suburbs.
Raising the rafters: Redfern Warehouse
In converting a former warehouse in Sydney into a comfortable family home, Ian Moore Architects have applied a soft touch, retaining original brick walls and trusses, and celebrating the building’s spatial qualities.
Elastic geometry: Glebe House
Crafted with deference to the sculptural potential of architecture, this compact family home by Chenchow Little with “elastic” geometry is a lesson in tectonic editing.
Garden room: Mount Stuart Greenhouse
This addition to a grand early-20th-century home in Hobart reads as a generous garden room, housing a new dining and kitchen space that captures the scale and movement of the nearby cypress tree.