REED HOUSE BY BETH GEORGE

Reed House is an architecture of intimate collaboration. It is intertwined with the life story of the architect Beth George and her clients: her sister Fran (an archaeologist), brother-in-law Mark (whom she has known since their teenage years) and their four daughters. The project involved the collective pursuit of ideas and aspirations via material construction – but also a shared understanding that architecture is a means for accommodating and celebrating the life that goes on within it. The resulting architectural outcome is an armature of experiences: past, present and future.

The decision to remediate the original and unlisted 1908 home