Houses, April 2019
HousesThe best contemporary residential architecture, with inspirational ideas from leading architects and designers.
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First House: Zigzag Cabin
Acting as a “billboard in the bush” for architecture, this colourful cabin that was completed almost twenty years ago, was a first foray into the design-build process for architect Drew Heath.
A verdant reimagining: Jacaranda House by SP Studio
Verdant terraced gardens and finely crafted joinery, stitch this reimagined Queenslander by SP Studio to its place and past to create a relaxed home and studio for the architect and his young family.
‘Changing the performance’: Camperdown Warehouse
Fusing concepts inherent in furniture design and architecture, this conversion of a former motor vehicle factory in Sydney serves as a prototype for a novel approach to adaptive re-use.
Tropical textures: Cove House
A thoughtful response to its unique setting and climate in the Gold Coast’s Sanctuary Cove, this house, by Justin Humphrey Architect, embodies principles of subtropical modern architecture to create a textured home for living and entertaining.
Birdsong and rain: Rosebery House revisited
Responding to a ridgeline that runs west across the gully, this Brisbane home designed by Brit Andresen and Peter O’Gorman illustrates the expressive capacity of Australian hardwood timber and creates a visceral connection to the rainforest.
Review
How does the future affect today’s domestic architecture?
Through six themes and a meandering series of dreamlike passages, the Home Futures exhibition revisits predictions made by twentieth-century designers to explore how our understanding of “home” is changing over time.
Profile
One to watch: MORA
Cultivating a dialogue between architecture, community, and context, James Fraser, director of Makers of Responsive Architecture (MORA), designs homes inspired by landscape.
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Meet the owners of Apollo Bay House
When Jon Swann embarked on creating a holiday home on Tasmania’s Bruny Island, he never expected the delightful solution his architect came up with.
Coming together: His and Hers House
Sculpted around the simple daily enactment of the owners’ newly shared life, this addition to an inner-Melbourne terrace by FMD Architects represents a binding together of stories, memories and moments.
Trademark lyricism: Stradbroke House
Well versed in designing for the tropical Queensland climate, the Gabriel and Elizabeth Poole and Tim Bennetton have collaborated to deliver an exuberant South Stradbroke Island holiday home for the owner and her four grandsons.
Transformations not speculations: The houses of Panov Scott
Armed with a finely crafted material palette that evokes memory and invites patina, Sydney practice Panov Scott Architects creates thoughtful architecture that embraces people and the pattern of the city.
Meet the owners of His and Hers House
Stephanie McGann chats with Pam Mitchell and Arthur Apted about working with an architect on their reimagined terrace in Melbourne’s Clifton Hill.
Artful apertures: Cloud House
A restful sanctuary for a couple who share their time between Singapore and Sydney, this new house in Bondi by Akin Atelier uses carefully considered apertures and subtle texture to create a sense of unencumbered space and levity.
Simple wishes: Lansdowne Crescent
A request for increased amenity rather than more square metres was the impetus behind this deceptively compact addition to a period Hobart home by Preston Lane Architects, where shifts in level and volume help create light-filled spaces and a connection to the garden.
Coastal character: Piz House
This characterful addition to a beach shack in a former coal mining village in New South Wales, by Barnacle Studio, speaks to its historical narrative and neighbouring ancient landform.
A lesson in collaboration: Sly Brothers Semi
Taking a neighbourly approach to design and construction, this addition to one in a pair of historic attached cottages by Archisoul in beachside Sydney preserves a connection to Australia’s coast-dwelling past.