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Revisited: The Treehouse by Christine Vadasz Architect
Nestled into the hillside above Wategos Beach in Byron Bay, the home Christine Vadasz designed for her young family in 1977 was a testing ground for a holistic approach to environmental design. Almost 50 years after it was completed, it endures as an unpretentious example of architecture in equilibrium with landscape.
ResidentialFirst House: Avalon Beach House by Sam Crawford and Emili Fox
Abundant enthusiasm outweighed limited experience for Sam Crawford when his sister called with an invitation to renovate a tired 1950s beach shack. Sam reflects on how this house, designed in collaboration with Emili Fox, kickstarted his career in architecture.
ResidentialRevisited: Glass House by Bill and Ruth Lucas
Designed in 1957 by Bill and Ruth Lucas, the Glass House was a radical experiment in living. Elevated on its sloping Castlecrag site, the building was both a prototype for an economical structural system and a vision for life lived in the landscape.
ResidentialFirst House: Armature for a Window
In the process of designing their first house – and their own house – Anita Panov and Andrew Scott re-imagined a small and narrow terrace house as a frame for an overscaled window to the garden.
ResidentialBushland machine: Osborne House
With a panorama of bush and water as its backdrop, the design for this house, built in 1995, uses materials and details reminiscent of wooden boatbuilding to immerse those who dwell there in the magic of the surrounds.
ResidentialFirst House: 632 Bourke
When architect William Smart found a pair of dilapidated buildings in Sydney’s Surry Hills, he immediately saw their potential and set to work designing a new home for himself and his partner and for his then burgeoning practice.
ResidentialFirst House: Zigzag Cabin
Acting as a “billboard in the bush” for architecture, this colourful cabin that was completed almost twenty years ago, was a first foray into the design-build process for architect Drew Heath.
ResidentialFirst house: House Shmukler
Taking inspiration from the whimsy and rigour of artist Sol LeWitt, Tribe Studio’s inventive, sustainable first house paints a “portrait” of its clients and hints at what would become the studio’s prevailing concerns.
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