BALLAST POINT HOUSE BY FOX JOHNSTON
The Sydney harbourside suburb of Birchgrove is one of those places that has a kind of forced perspective about it. As you travel deeper into the peninsula, the streets get narrower and the houses feel like they start to lean towards you. Taken and occupied in the late 1700s, the area’s first few residences were moderated with civilized distances between them. However, the subsequent occupation, division and subdivision of land into smaller and smaller parcels, as industry established itself on valuable harbour land, saw space – particularly outdoor space – become a premium. Now, the
