Houses, April 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.
Introduction to Houses 133.
Architecture Architecture has created a tranquil home for an artist and a curator on this slice of Melbourne suburbia.
In response to the urgency around the health of our natural environment, emerging architecture studio Youssofzay and Hart focuses on smart solutions that champion sustainable materials, density and affordability.
With civic ambition and a highly personal attention to detail, this ‘house of many rooms’ is a considered new layer in the cultural palimpsest of inner Melbourne.
Amid the windswept landscape of the Mornington Peninsula’s southern edge, this house meets ecological and bushfire concerns without compromising on enjoyment.
Since Andrew Benn established Benn and Penna in 2012, the practice has mastered constrained conditions to make calm and considered spaces.
Sketched on a napkin, the first house of Perth architect Finn Pedersen was designed “with great bravado” and inspired by the houses of Le Corbusier and Charles and Ray Eames.
In the Southern Highlands town of Bowral, a new cottage shirks polite defensiveness for porosity, contributing generously to its streetscape while also enabling quiet repose.
This rare 1970s house by an influential but “under the radar” Perth architect interrogates environmental consciousness, passive design and social dynamics.
Comedian and modernism geek, Tim Ross, delves into the heart of some rare architect-designed houses through a live presentation of original short films, offering a delicate insight into the stories and memories linked to these homes.
A nuanced understanding of the Gold Coast’s colourful heritage, as well as its local quirks and character, is embedded in this neighbourly family home.
The artisanal sensibility of an owner-builder, a steeply sloping site and a desire for a tactile material palette set the direction for this refreshing addition to a humble Brisbane worker’s cottage.
Owner-builder Bobby Coulston sought the expertise of architects Twohill and James to give a formerly rundown cottage in Brisbane a new lease on life.
Edged by swathes of native garden, this addition to a historic home in Perth brings to life a series of stories, instilled with childhood memories of the past and in the making.
Encapsulating minimalism as a holistic way of living, this house provides a counterpoint to its context and embodies a myriad of simple measures that make a healthy home.