Based in Hobart, Judith is a graduate architect, sculptor and writer who works freelance on her own projects and teaches at the School of Architecture, University of Tasmania. Judith is engaged in working out how to transform unusual ideas into real things, moments or places. She loves to balance the solitude of making art with the collaborative potential of design.
Judith Abell's Latest contributions
Gable Clerestory House by Sonelo Architects
Marrying heritage and modern elements in a cohesive gable-roofed addition, this project delivers an elegant yet effortless family home.
Paperbark Pod by Bark Architects
Emblemizing an ambition to build small but better, this contemporary beach shack on the Sunshine Coast sustains a life lived outdoors.
Union Street House by Prior Barraclough
A sculptural new volume balances timber-lined living spaces and discreet, operable machinery at this concept-driven home in suburban Melbourne.
Darlinghurst Terrace by Sam Crawford Architects
After thirty years at home in this two-storey terrace house, an artistic pair sought renovations to prepare for a few decades more.
Composition House by Studio Prineas
A thoughtful renovation updates and repairs the interior of this well-loved 1950s home with new elements that also preserve treasured family memories.
Studio: Elliat Rich
Deliberately broad in scope and often mythical in focus, the work of this Alice Springs-based designer seeks to spark connection between all things.
Studio: Jessica Loughlin
Glass artist Jessica Loughlin crafts reductive, geometric forms in opaline glass that capture the elusive and evanescent qualities of light and colour in the expansive Australian landscape.
One to watch: Saha
Spurred by the challenges of housing affordability and social and environmental sustainability, this young Sydney practice has been adapting existing housing with composure, sensitivity and restraint.
One to watch: Lachlan Seegers Architect
Lachlan describes a desire to create calm, harmonious and uplifting environments that respond, very specifically, to site. He does this in response to his own yearning to occupy this kind of space – a setting that compensates for the intensities of life.
New into old: Hawthorn House
Victorian and modern, home and garden, communal and private: a clearly articulated design by Kennedy Nolan brings balance to a multifaceted house in Hawthorn.