PROJECTS

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Bosske Architecture’s bold chimney-like addition gives a new voice to the existing home while reflecting the suburb’s past.

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.

Interlocking spaces connect house and garden in this addition to an 1890s Fremantle home by Philip Stejskal Architecture.

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 family home by MORQ in Margaret River responds directly to the movement of the sun, wind and trees.

Interview from the 2013 Urban Issue of Landscape Architecture Australia about Alkimos Beach, WA.

Officer Woods creates a cluster of courtyard houses on the fringe of Fremantle.

With a number of landscape architecture firms behind its design, Western Australia’s Ellenbrook Estate is worth reflecting on.