PROJECTS

In the Perth suburbs, a new home deploys an efficient plan and varied outlook to forge connections for a close-knit family with their garden, their neighbourhood, and each other.

Deploying the activist potential of an architect’s own home, this new house in Western Australia is a testing ground for low-carbon living.

In suburban Perth , a decisive new house honours the homeowner’s aspirations for monumental structure, using brave formal order to frame opportunities for light, airiness and calm introspection.

“Addition by subtraction” was the approach taken in the redesign of this Fremantle cottage, which pairs crisp interiors with light-filled courtyard gardens.

A passion for food, art and the Western Australian coast inspired the transformation of this 1960s house into a retreat that values history and the clever use of space.

This striking renovation of a South Fremantle house boldly expresses the site’s architectural imprints, giving structure to the transformation from the ground up.

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.

A collaborative experiment in medium-density housing led by Western Australia’s land development agency seeks to subvert traditional suburban development.

A desire to connect – to community and the natural world – inspires this lyrical addition to an unassuming Perth worker’s cottage, resulting in sculptural spaces that seem to contract and expand.

An arched concrete house in inner-city Perth takes its cues from a Tokyo library to create chambers of space and a sense of loftiness, despite its small site.

Contemplative and brave, this new house on a prominent corner site in Perth eschews the suburban status quo to connect its occupants with their community and climate.

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.

A new house in Perth at once recollects and reconsiders the suburban house, employing a garden room to mediate between individual and collective suburban life.

Informed by Roman courtyard houses, this Perth home artfully responds to its climate and suburban context by sculpting a domestic sanctuary out of concrete, timber and light.

Architect Simon Pendal reflects on his first project, his own house in Fremantle WA, which he built with his life partner Rebecca Angus.

Architect Kate Fitzgerald of Whispering Smith prevailed against government regulations to create this compact home in Perth that represents a novel approach to increasing density in the suburbs.

A sensitive reworking of a traditional cottage has transformed not only the house but also its owners, who initially felt indifferent about the prospect of renovating.

A celebration of the process and legacy of making, this house by Local Architecture transcends its modest site and budget through strategic manipulations of light and form.

This multiresidential design by Spaceagency Architects contributes to a local canon of intriguing medium-density projects in Perth with “deep pragmatism” and “tactile and poetic sensitivity.”

Emblematic of a generational shift in thinking about housing, this development of three apartments by David Barr Architects is an example of affordability by design.

A theatrical reworking of an existing townhouse uses colour and contrast to boldly define the series of spaces.

David Weir Architects creates an“energetic” one-bedroom cottage that provides a place to live and a place to work.

Adrian Iredale of Iredale Pedersen Hook reflects on the practice’s first project, a house that expresses “the youthful sense of pursuing an untested path.”

Jonathan Lake Architects creates a new home that makes the most of a small footprint through the strategic integration of garden spaces, balancing privacy and connection between family members.

A Perth home by Pendal and Neille that engages with the sublime pleasures of domestic life.

A modest Perth bungalow made intriguing by Pendal and Neille.

A diverse public project in Perth combines domestic and institutional qualities.

An undulating roof floats above this weekender, creating a series of visual connections with the Indian Ocean beyond.

The Perth home and studio of Bulgarian-born architect Iwan Iwanoff.