Houses, April 2010
HousesThe best contemporary residential architecture, with inspirational ideas from leading architects and designers.
Book reviews
Architectus: between order and opportunity
A comprehensive volume of the work by architectural firm Architectus.
Climate Design: Design and Planning for the Age of Climate Change
Climate Design aims to unpack all the issues relating to a deep sustainability.
Mark Strizic Melbourne: Marvellous to Modern
Melbourne of the 1950s was a city of possibility and Strizic’s images capture this collision of the old world and the new.
In Focus
Harmony 9
What happens when housing developers start thinking green?
Built for the bush
An exhibition explores the role of materials in architecture and how these elements contribute to sustainable housing types.
Houses
Asset Bank
A townhouse development by Neometro infuses warehouse styling into neat domestic volumes.
Cottage Industrial
Tzannes Associates reconfigures a nineteenth-century house and workshop into a series of flexible living spaces.
Opulent Eyrie
High above the South Yarra skyline a penthouse’s spaces indoor and out are infused with a sober sense of luxury.
Shared Space
Two modest homes, linked by a communal space for eating, playing and sharing, flirt with new ideas of public and private space.
Material connection
Confronting the limitations of an existing Edwardian, Zilka Studio has fashioned an elegant extension enclosed by curtains of vintage brickwork.
Three-part harmony
A complex arrangement of spaces over three levels cleverly resolved by Carterwilliamson in Sydney.
Projects
Enlivened heritage cottage
Occupied by the same family for four generations, this Victorian cottage boasts a new rear extension by AIGP.
Interview
Established & Sons
In five years, Britain’s Established & Sons has gained a solid footing as the go-to guys for edgy design.
In Profile
Sensory appeal
Michael Banney and Michael Lavery of m3architecture answer the question, What is it about houses that makes us feel?
Postscript
1 house = 1000 homes
A project with a seemingly simple premise: for Australian property owners to help those in the world’s poorest countries.