Houses, August 2022
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Projects
Astutely elegant: A House for an Artist
Beyond its modest, shed-like exterior, this secondary dwelling is both an expedient and elegant solution to small-scale living, providing its artist owner with a canvas to animate with light, life and art.
Happy families: Preston House II
Relaxed and inviting, this family home combines a respectfully reworked interwar house with a skilfully planned extension that’s full of comforts for adults at work – and children at play.
Instructive reimagining: Pinjarra Hills House
Careful and concise, this addition resolves the problems of an unremarkable 1970s brick home in Brisbane, thoughtfully replanning it to support relaxed family living attuned to its subtropical locale.
Gastronomic palette: Hermon
Delicious colours and carved layers are the garnish to this practical reinvention of an Edwardian villa and its 1990s addition, which lets the family have their cake – and eat it, too.
Awards
2022 Houses Awards: Australian House of the Year
An imaginative reworking of the humble terraced house with richness in every room and generosity to the public realm.
2022 Houses Awards: New House over 200m2
This exceptional house elevates the homeowners’ experience of an already spectacular site, crafting spaces of surprise, warmth, drama and delight.
2022 Houses Awards: New House under 200m2
Robust and refined, elegant and effortless, this house is a study in how we can live with spirited connectedness.
2022 Houses Awards: House Alteration and Addition over 200m2
Carefully crafted and finely detailed, this home provides for adaptable modes of living that meets all modern demands.
2022 Houses Awards: House Alteration and Addition under 200m2
A visually recessive addition is cleverly grafted onto a characterful Queensland cottage.
2022 Houses Awards: Garden or Landscape
Comprising a series of outdoor rooms, this home maximizes the potential for landscape connection.
2022 Houses Awards: House in a Heritage Context – joint winner
An artfully balanced heritage outcome that acknowledges the original 1830s cottage while courageously contrasting with it.
2022 Houses Awards: House in a Heritage Context – joint winner
Hinting at the extraordinary design within, this home sits comfortably in a Victorian streetscape of attached terraces.
2022 Houses Awards: Sustainability
This home exemplifies the sustainable ideal of doing more with less and delivers an oasis-like family home.
2022 Houses Awards: Emerging Architecture Practice
This promising young studio creates rich residential spaces that demonstrate deft understanding of sensory qualities.
2022 Houses Awards: Commendations
Twenty-four projects have received commendations in the 2022 Houses Awards.
In Profile
Five houses of Incidental Architecture
Sixteen years after establishing his practice, architect Matt Elkan is rebranding the studio alongside long-time colleague and friend Daina Cunningham, reaffirming their ethos that architecture is fundamentally about serving people.
Revisited
Revisited: Glass House by Bill and Ruth Lucas
Designed in 1957 by Bill and Ruth Lucas, the Glass House was a radical experiment in living. Elevated on its sloping Castlecrag site, the building was both a prototype for an economical structural system and a vision for life lived in the landscape.
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