Houses

Taking their cues from textural landscape elements, the three palettes – ‘Positive Light,’ ‘Equilibrium’ (pictured) and ‘Home Grown’ – of this empowered and youthful colour library each comprise four core hues and reflect the vibrant voices of modern

This house embodies a long, fruitful collaboration between architect Matthew Woodward and owner-builder Adam Haughey. The two met years ago through friends, and have since come to work together on numerous projects. The triangle of architect-client-b

Intriguingly, Mermaid Multihouse by Partners Hill with Hogg and Lamb is described by the architects as a “demonstration project,” signalling its value as a scheme with qualities and outcomes worth reproducing. In these terms, the design proposes a ju

Castle Cove is one of those pockets of Sydney that only residents go to. Conceived as a sort of garden suburb around a lush country club, it’s more discreet than the adjacent peninsulas of Middle Cove and Castlecrag (famous for its Burley Griffin hou

Located in an unassuming street in Melbourne’s north, Harry House is a hidden addition to the rear of an existing cottage. Described by the owner as a house that is “so easy to live in,” Harry House acts as a framework that supports a family of five.

Josh Harris Could you tell me a little bit about your family’s history with your home. Were you living in the cottage before the alteration? Tania Yes – we bought the house in late 2010 and were living there by early 2011. So we’ve had it for about

Large-format ceramic tiles by Italian company Fondovalle offer a flexible and long-lasting alternative to marble. Available in a range of colour-printed designs, the tiles are suitable for kitchens, bathrooms and other wet areas, including outdoor sp

If any practice has good reason to celebrate, it’s Pinch. The London-based design studio, founded by husband and wife Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon, has officially been in business for 15 years. And what better way to commemorate the anniversary than

In the backstreets of Oatlands, a small town in Tasmania’s midlands renowned for its collection of early-nineteenth-century Georgian buildings, you’ll stumble across Bozen’s Cottage. It’s a tiny sandstone house that was built for one Jane Pain in the

The clients were on the hunt for an architect to help them transform their brick box into a twenty-first-century house. They had seen the work of Those Architects and were impressed by the practice’s approach. Simon Addinall, director at the practice

Neil de la Coeur and I were immediately impressed by the group of four people who walked into our office in 2000. You know straight away when the fit is right and they quickly became our clients. June, her two daughters and her son-in-law had pooled

Clovelly – like most of Sydney’s eastern beach suburbs – is a tightly packed valley huddled around the beach below. The beach itself fronts a long channel of water spearing inland, creating layers of homes all looking at each other, stacked up and up

Sydney’s Inner West has pockets of strong suburban character, with Federation and Californian bungalows lining the streets. But step through the front gate at Cooks River House and suburbia is left behind. A landscape of rocky outcrops and native pla

This is the story of a house that is not rectangular. Considered against the host of minimalist and reductive – and resolutely rectilinear – approaches to contemporary residential architecture favoured by many practices and their clients, Merri Creek

As the design and build of this secondary dwelling in Sydney’s inner-western suburb of Glebe progressed, the intended occupants changed. The initial brief asked for a separate self-contained home for the client’s grandmother that was flexible enough

Ken Woolley’s Paddington House, completed in 1980, is the smallest of the architect’s three Sydney homes, and arguably his most romantic. It is a love letter to his second wife, Virginia Braden Woolley. Perched on a ridge in Sydney’s Paddington, look

MA Architects (MAA) is at a turning point, and interesting things happen at turns. Practice director, Karen Alcock, describes the firm as now leaving its “teenage” years, ready to evolve its language and move on to new things. Established in 2008, MA

As the wheel of good taste turns, various elements of the home are dragged into the spotlight. Kitchens, bathrooms, fireplaces, columns, windows, curtains, tiles, rugs, lamps, roofs and stools have all been seized by designers and reworked and redeve