Issue 127 April 2019

Houses

Be inspired by the best contemporary residential architecture and design.

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Musings
On my visit to Andresen O’Gorman’s Rosebery House (page 130) in Queensland, I was taken by the intensely immersive experience engendered by both the landscape and the architecture. This is a home that reminds you to live in the moment and enjoy a gen
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Fresh Finds
Lang Mursten is a range of extra-long-format, water-struck clay bricks, imported by PGH Bricks and Pavers from Denmark. Defined by its sleek, elongated form, the rustic yet contemporary range delivers an elevated aesthetic while accentuating the raw
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Kia Ora By Baracco + Wright Architects
In 1994 British architects Alison and Peter Smithson published a series of annotated drawings titled Small Pleasures of Life in their book Changing the Art of Inhabitation. The sketchbook excerpt depicts ten vignettes illustrating how delight can be
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Jacaranda House By Sp Studio
This exciting reimagining of a 1920s weatherboard “porch-and-gable” house in Paddington marks the return of architect Scott Petherick, director of SP Studio, to Brisbane. With extended family residing there, it made sense that Scott would settle in B
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HIS & HERS HOUSE BY FMD ARCHITECTS
Sitting among well preserved Victorian and Edwardian homes in the inner-Melbourne pocket suburb of Clifton Hill, His and Hers House by FMD Architects is a celebration of connection and coming together. The clients, Pam and Arthur, had each engaged Fi
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HIS & HERS HOUSE MEET THE OWNERS
Stephanie McGann Could you share with us a little about your family and background? Pam Mitchell I’m a chartered accountant and I currently work for a philanthropic trust. I have two adult children and I’ve just recently become a grandma. Arthur Ap
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Mora
It’s common for an architect to think of their work as their “baby,” but James Fraser speaks of his buildings, not as though they are fully fledged creations, but as things to be nurtured. “Through the design process, it’s almost like we have an embr
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Bookshelf
Much like the projects it features, Petite Places makes the most of the space available. Featuring more than seventy projects across its 256 pages, the book traces the history of all things small living – from the egalitarian houses of the Neolithic
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Jonathan West
The expressed simplicity of Jonathan West’s work belies its complex construction. In fact, much of Jonathan’s work is imbued with a sense of contradiction, which speaks to his desire to produce playful, tactile pieces that encourage interaction. Soli
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Home
As designers, patrons and followers of both architecture and Houses magazine, we can be forgiven for our preoccupation with the built “house.” However, one of this year’s Sydney Festival highlights, performed at the Rosslyn Packer Theatre, challenged
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Camperdown Warehouse By Archer Office
If there is a relationship between furniture design and building design, Tomek Archer would know it. He won design awards for his Campfire Table while still an architecture student. Now a fully fledged architect, Tomek has headed up his own practice,
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STRADBROKE HOUSE BY GABRIEL & ELIZABETH POOLE DESIGN COMPANY WITH TIM BENNETTON ARCHITECTS
South Stradbroke Island lies to the north of the Gold Coast, Queensland, forming a twenty-one-kilometre-long stretch of sand that divides the Broadwater from the Coral Sea. Largely a conservation park, South Stradbroke Island has a rich cultural and
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Cloud House By Akin Atelier
Some of the most considered decisions an architect makes in the course of a project are often the most discreet in the finished product. They are also an opportunity to learn and investigate new ideas.“This one was about apertures and light and it be
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Lambert & Fils
Samuel Lambert founded his design studio in 2010 when, having previously worked in visual arts and film editing, he changed direction and started designing lights. Samuel was inspired by the example set by his father, a potter who designed and made t
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Rinse & repeat
The Polar Space series from Everstone is a collection of ceramic wall tiles in a wide range of colours and shapes. Colours include ‘Polar White,’ ‘Polar Grey Blue’ and ‘Polar Black’ while formats range from rectangular to herringbone, scallop and hex
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Panov Scott Architects
A grassroots revolution is happening in architecture – a move away from the “starchitect” model of showpieces and toward a more thoughtful approach that embraces people and landscape as central, not incidental. Sydney’s Panov Scott Architects is part
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Zigzag Cabin by Drew Heath
Zigzag Cabin (see Architecture Australia July/August 2003) brings together many of my ideas about architecture, which began to take shape in my early days of practice – everything custom built and designed with a timber and hardware store palette. Th
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Lansdowne Crescent By Preston Lane Architects
The brief for this extension, located on the edge of Hobart’s city centre, was to bring in more light, connect the home to the garden and thereby make the communal spaces much more liveable. The owners of the conjoined early-twentieth-century terrace
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Piz House By Barnacle Studio
Coledale, north of Wollongong, is a small seaside town and historic coal mining village that occupies a narrow stretch of land between the Illawarra Escarpment and the Tasman Sea. Prior to more recent development, the town’s houses were predominantly
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Sly Brothers Semi By Archisoul Architects
All buildings have a story to tell: the story of the lives of the people that have interacted with them and the story of their place. Archisoul Architects was entrusted with reimagining and restoring two unassuming timber-clad cottages in Manly that
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Cove House By Justin Humphrey Architect
Frank Sinatra and Whitney Houston headlined the Ultimate Event at Sanctuary Cove in 1988. The five-day festival heralded the grand opening of the Gold Coast canal estate, which had been ratified under its own legislative act, the Sanctuary Cove Resor
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Rosebery House by Andresen O’Gorman
As you enter the enchanting rainforest setting that engulfs Andresen O’Gorman’s Rosebery House, the only evidence that you’re just five kilometres from Brisbane’s city centre is a small glimpse of buildings across the river to the west. This house, i
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Home Futures
How will future changes affect today’s domestic architecture? Will soaring temperatures render the ubiquitous glass boxes grafted onto earlier housing stock uninhabitable? Will families have to seek refuge in dimly-lit, shrouded Victorian parlours? H

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