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Six Chimney House by Vokes and Peters
A 1920s house in Perth is perceptively reprogrammed to suit contemporary occupation, in the process exploring how private domestic space can converse with the street and the suburb.
ResidentialBrick House by Studio Roam and With Architecture Studio
Designed with future replication in mind, this new home in Perth’s inner suburbs threads connections between people, place, history and memories, while anticipating the needs of the next generation.
ResidentialDeepwater House by AHA Studio
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.
ResidentialFarrier Lane House by MDC Architects
Deploying the activist potential of an architect’s own home, this new house in Western Australia is a testing ground for low-carbon living.
ResidentialTanoa by Vittino Ashe
Delicate and inventive accretions to a Perth duplex encourage flexible occupation and sustain a multigenerational family that seeks both refuge and connection.
ResidentialCelilo Springs by Western Architecture Studio
A challenging site on a natural spring has inspired a deeply personal and intensely local new home custom-built by the occupants, their friends and their family.
ResidentialFirst House: Bellevue Terrace Alterations and Additions by Philip Stejskal Architecture
Completed in 2013, this diminutive yet delightful addition to a Fremantle cottage launched Philip Stejskal Architecture from “relative obscurity” to the national stage, and continues today as the practice’s quiet ambassador.
ResidentialNorth Perth House by Simon Pendal Architect
A celebration of family life infuses this gently refreshed Federation house in North Perth, where a new addition unfolds in a series of dramatic yet intimate gestures to embrace the beauty of domestic life.
ResidentialMayfair by Whispering Smith
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.
ResidentialCasa Mia by Caroline Di Costa Architect and Iredale Pedersen Hook
On a corner site in the Perth suburb of City Beach, a dynamic and intriguing new house is wrapped in a brick mask that simultaneously conceals and reveals, testing ideas about public and private space in the domestic realm.
ResidentialBeing in place: Karri Loam
In Margaret River, a skilfully planned new residence interleaves a love for the handmade with a celebration of local materials, resulting in a house imbued with making and meaning.
ResidentialHigham Road House by Philip Stejskal Architecture
In North Fremantle, a characterful extension reinvigorates a petite weatherboard cottage to suit spirited family life, providing varied spaces for both connectivity and calm.
ResidentialCourtyard retreat: East Fremantle House
“Addition by subtraction” was the approach taken in the redesign of this Fremantle cottage, which pairs crisp interiors with light-filled courtyard gardens.
Residential‘Sumptuously nostalgic’: Dune House
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.
ResidentialPositioning the past: Orient St House
This striking renovation of a South Fremantle house boldly expresses the site’s architectural imprints, giving structure to the transformation from the ground up.
Residential‘An armature of experiences’: Reed House
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.
ResidentialTesting new ground in housing: WGV
A collaborative experiment in medium-density housing led by Western Australia’s land development agency seeks to subvert traditional suburban development.
ResidentialArchitecture as functional sculpture: Beaconsfield House
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.
ResidentialTokyo calling: North Perth House
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.
ResidentialSun seeker: Macdonald Road House
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.
ResidentialFirst House: Vincent Street House
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.
ResidentialPetite but potent: Cottesloe Lobby and Landscape
Despite its small size, awkward angles and compromised condition, the entrance lobby at a 1970s Perth apartment block has been retrofitted so thoughtfully as to alter the perception of the entire building.
ResidentialSimple yet sculptural: Marine
This rear addition to a heritage cottage on a raised corner block in Fremantle sits in harmony with the existing structure and enhances its cherished “ramshackle” nature.
ResidentialRevisited: Ooi House
Ooi House by Kerry Hill Architects is a seminal project in Australia’s modern architectural canon. Revisiting the icon more than two decades after its construction leaves the striking impression of a nuanced home inextricably bound to its site.
Residential‘Memory palace’: Subiaco House
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.
ResidentialHolding court: Cloister House
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.
ResidentialFirst House: Fremantle House
Architect Simon Pendal reflects on his first project, his own house in Fremantle WA, which he built with his life partner Rebecca Angus.
ResidentialSmall wonder: House A
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.
ResidentialBrick by brick: Grey Street House
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.
ResidentialCovert suburban intensity: Knutsford Stage 1
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.”
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