Houses, August 2020
HousesThe best contemporary residential architecture, with inspirational ideas from leading architects and designers.
The best contemporary residential architecture, with inspirational ideas from leading architects and designers.
Perched on a hillside in Sydney’s coastal suburb of Dover Heights, this vibrant house by YSG riffs on tone and texture to create a sculptural backdrop to the life of a growing family.
The jury lauded this small, humble project, adding that it “delivers something that we need to see more of in our cities.”
Divided into two highly personalized living wings, this home in regional Victoria is unequivocally functional while also deeply symbolic of its owners’ lives.
Wilson Beach House on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast offers an enduring example of elegant and expressive Australian design.
One of a select few practices to have driven a new Australian vernacular, Durbach Block Jaggers is known for its dynamic buildings that embody cheekiness, wit, nuance and surprise.
Inspired by the raw, expressive quality of classic brutalist architecture, this Melbourne home draws on the once gritty and industrial character of its neighbourhood to create a calming, cave-like oasis.
Motif, texture and concrete acrobatics unite in this sculptural new home, befitting its majestic escarpment setting on the precipice of Toowoomba’s Great Dividing Range.
Twenty-two projects and two emerging practices have received commendations in the 2020 Houses Awards.
This practice has asserted itself among Queensland’s architectural talent and added its own palpable freshness.
Behind an unusual entry, the main volume of this house sits between a verdant front courtyard and a rear outdoor living space.
The architect has used traditional materials in a contemporary way to create a quietly powerful statement.
In this winning garden, the dramatic clifftop scenery is carefully calibrated into a series of episodic encounters.
The architects’ sure hand and subtle confidence has brought life and light deep into the modestly sized space.
In reworking a 1970s split-level house, the architect has joyously reinterpreted the history of its place and beach shack typology.
This intriguing alteration and addition to a stately Edwardian reflects new changes to the city and the way we live in it.
The civic generosity of this house brings domestic life into direct relation with its laneway context.
The winning project celebrates a simple life and the capacity of modest architecture to impact significantly on the way we live.
The winning home wears the uniform of its Federation-era neighbourhood with polite grace but hides its true radical heart.