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Year completed - 2014
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The kitchen and living area extend into the garden, making the most of the northern light.

Utterly unpretentious: Marrickville House

This efficient and effective extension by MI Architects makes the most of a fast-track approval process, unpretentious materials and a simple form to meet the clients’ brief and budget.

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The unique roof form of Pirramimma lifts to expose the western face of the building and its upper terrace to the winter sun. Artworks: Bocabajo 1 by Marta Moreu (left); Cast Iron Inversion by James Angus (right).

Mountain retreat: Pirramimma

This Blue Mountains house by Peter Stutchbury Architecture deftly explores the relationship between building and landscape; moments of intensity and quietness, light and shadow, heighten the “real” in the everyday experience.

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The lower level of glazing is transparent to the light well and the upper level is frosted for privacy.

Upward spiral: Fitzroy Terrace

A terrace house renovation by Adrian Amore Architects with a stair that functions as much more than just vertical circulation.

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The upper pavilion stands above the rocky terrain, while the lower pavilion is embedded in the flatter part of the site.

Joining forces: Split House

A pair of pavilions come together to create a family home that considers privacy, thermal comfort and spatial delight.

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The white timber boards emphasize the sitting room’s verticality, while the brick references the area’s masonry tradition.

Suburban narratives: Central Avenue

This new house by Vokes and Peters employs traditional architectural motifs in unconventional ways, all the while responding to its site, street and city.

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The steeply pitched skillion roof turns away from the two-storey western neighbour to greet visitors at the street.

A contemporary angle: Humble House

Coy Yiontis creates a steeply pitched contemporary home for a mature couple to enjoy into their retirement.

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The large original house on the Marrickville site has been divided down the middle to create two dwellings with separate entries (Lots 1 and 2).

Urban osmosis: Three Marrickville Houses

David Boyle Architect delivers harmonious triplets on a complex urban site, where once a single house stood.

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The two-storey extension fits neatly into its garden surrounds, using a large mango tree as a focal point.

Geometry at play: West End House

Taking cues from existing trees on site, this renovation and extension to a Queenslander by Marc and Co Architects opens up and embraces a delightful backyard setting.

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Industrial in aesthetic and sitting between a corner shop and a suburban bungalow, this new house has no setback from its West Brunswick street.

Hard and soft: Bridge House 2

The tough exterior of this new house by Delia Teschendorff Architecture gives way to a “soft centre,” protected from the hustle and bustle of a busy West Brunswick street.

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The house is a U-shape around a front courtyard hidden behind a modest brick wall.

Sizing up: Marrickville Courtyard House

Located on one of three blocks created in the subdivision of a large corner site, this new house by David Boyle Architect “feels huge but sits on a relatively small site.”

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Views from the house are largely into the two courtyards and to the garden, with sightlines to neighbouring structures restricted. Artwork: Paul Gundry.

Suburban illusion: Laneway House

This new infill house in Brisbane’s New Farm by O’Neill Architecture balances openness with privacy to create a clever and inviting inner-suburban sanctuary.

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The modest scale of the House in Double Bay and the compactness of the plan are compensated for by the generous light well in the living space.

Raising eyebrows: House in Double Bay

Without compromise on quality or invention, this new speculative home by Tribe Studio Architects has an emphasis on spatial interest and an abundance of natural light.

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The main living space or salon can be opened to views of water at either end – a pool to the north-east and the ocean to the south-west.

The art of minimalist living: Villa Marittima

Experienced like a piece of immersive installation art, this new beachside home by Robin Williams Architect encourages its inhabitants to engage all their senses.

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The new pavilion has the charm of a child’s drawing of a house. Photograph: Christopher Frederick Jones.

Larger than life: West End Cottage

A careful but confident transformation of a tiny worker’s cottage into a contemporary family home by Vokes and Peters.

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Essentially a concrete frame to a wall of glass, the large upper level flares outwards like an elegant aperture for observing the world.

Layer by layer: Concrete House

Made of timber, stone and steel, and topped with concrete, this rectilinear house by Matt Gibson Architecture and Design is the result of exceptional integration and interaction between layers.

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The house and pathway are on existing clearings in the dense vegetation, leaving canopy trees intact.

Rainforest journey: Cape Tribulation House

M3 Architecture’s design for this holiday retreat wisely defers to its dense surroundings on the northern Queensland coast.

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The house’s footprint was discovered when the architects identified a place of poor vegetation growth on the coastal site.

Subliminal proto-dwelling: Garden House

Baracco and Wright Architects’ Garden House blurs the boundaries between garden and home while redefining what it means to be minimal.

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The modest setback and an open fence place the front door almost at arm’s length, as if to invite guests in.

Vanishing point: Balmoral House

This house follows Isamu Noguchi’s philosophy that art should “disappear” or become one with its surroundings.

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The home borrows shade and a connection with nature from a park to the corner of the site, on the other side of the private tennis court.

Street appeal: Kensington House

An alteration and addition to a Californian bungalow by Virigina Kerridge Architect that respectfully addresses the streetscape.

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The old vegie patch was reinstated and tripled in size to the north, with a series of elevated timber crates that complement the Kids Pod by Mihaly Slocombe.

Chip off the old block: Kids Pod

Mihaly Slocombe take the cubbyhouse typology to full scale with a self-contained addition to its first project.

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Ashgrove Residence by DM2 Architecture.

Tree hugger: Ashgrove Residence

DM2 Architecture adds a new pavilion to the rear of a humble cottage in Brisbane that embraces a historical significant hoop pine.

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Social butterfly: Local House

Social butterfly: Local House

This addition to a Californian bungalow by Make Architecture creates an active connection with the St Kilda community.

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The Tower House is a series of small, interconnected structures that wrap around a central courtyard.

It takes a village: Tower House

Appearing “more medieval village than inner-city extension,” a collection of timber shingle-clad towers by Andrew Maynard Architects have been added to the site of an existing mid-century bungalow.

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The leafy-green garden view is echoed in the kitchen, where a section of wall is clad with white tiles hand-painted in a geometric green pattern by one of the owners, artist Tai Snaith. Artwork: Cherry Hood.

A house of art and play: Doll’s House

Driven by ideas of art and play as well as tactics for sustainability, this striking extension by BKK Architects is a “well-made doll’s house” with an uplifting sense of possibility.

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Central to the plan of the Courtyard House is the opening and wrapping of all spaces around gardens and courtyards.

Playing to type: Courtyard House

This delightful reinterpretation of a traditional terrace house has built-in flexibility, allowing it to adapt and change to the evolving needs of the family.

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The studio employs a tower typology seen elsewhere in Max Pritchard’s work.

Towering ideas: Tree Top Studio

Max Pritchard Architect

Max Pritchard revisits his own house after twenty-five years to create a distinctive satellite building.

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The existing house, an Edwardian weatherboard, has been remodelled as a private family wing.

Playful finesse: Westgarth House

An addition to a suburban Melbourne house by Kennedy Nolan that is far from ordinary.

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The architect rejected a car spot, retaining a large frangipani tree at the front instead.

Street life: Alexandria Courtyard House

This new Sydney terrace by Matthew Pullinger Architect challenges conventions and plays with traditions, while engaging seriously with the street and community life.

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