Issue 125 December 2018

Houses

Be inspired by the best contemporary residential architecture and design.

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Musings
There is a golden trifecta when it comes to producing outstanding architecture: you need a trusting client, a talented architect and a committed builder. I’m often reminded of the value of this trifecta when visiting houses across Australia and meeti
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Fresh Finds
Find more residential products: selector.com and productnews.com.au Incorporating soft rolling curves and bold geometric lines, the Valley sofa is low-lying and welcoming. Sitting atop turned American oak feet, the Valley sofa features high-resili
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Silver Street House By Ehdo
This is a story of how a visionary client saw potential where others saw obstacles. Pat and Sonia Gaffney – parents of three children, now adults – bought the vacant block next door to their home for a low price twenty years ago. A main sewer line di
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Featherston Studio By Two Feathers
The spirit of playful invention and curiosity about the human condition are still palpable in the home that Robin Boyd designed for Grant and Mary Featherston in Ivanhoe, Melbourne (1967–69). This memorable dwelling comprises a series of connected pl
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Tarragindi Steel House By Bligh Graham Architects
The streets of Tarragindi in Brisbane bring focus to the shifting patterns of development in postwar suburbia. As modest cottages on generous blocks are removed or demolished to make way for subdivision, architecture is forced to resolve a new set of
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Tarragindi Steel House Meet The Owners
Michelle Bailey Could you tell us a bit about your background in engineering and construction? Stephen Paterdis My parents have been in the steel fabrication business for more than thirty-five years. As small business owners, this meant that it was
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Marcel Sigel
When I met Australian designer Marcel Sigel at his Highgate studio, which is perched high above London with expansive views, we appropriately started with discussion of his Perch stool collection (2014), designed for the Spanish company Capdell. When
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Bookshelf
Since its inception in 2007, British publisher Monocle has, through its annual Quality of Life ranking of cities, the radio show The Urbanist and myriad guidebooks, covered cities and urbanism in many guises. This book brings some of those stories in
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Lovell Burton Architecture
Creating architecture that poetically responds to people and place is not restricted to an older generation of Australian architects – it also permeates the work of many emerging practices. Melbourne-based Lovell Burton Architecture is one such pract
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Michael Anastassiades
“Embracing the familiar is a starting point to a dialogue,” explains Michael Anastassiades about his design process, at his studio in a former mechanics workshop in Camden, North London. “Until last year I hosted the studio on the ground floor of my
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Bouwman House By Sam Crawford Architects
Like neighbouring Leichhardt, Haberfield has a strong Italian community whose residents have lived in the area for many years. It’s also got some of the best Italian eateries in Sydney’s inner west and happens to boast a large percentage of Victorian
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PEEL BY MILIEU BY DKO ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN OFFICE
Like much of inner Melbourne, the suburb of Collingwood is undergoing significant transformation, with large swathes of the once-gritty suburb being replaced with medium-scale (and some not-so-medium-scale) residential development. Density is jumping
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Nat’s House By Studio Prineas
When renovating, there is often a temptation to overdo things – to maximize the size of spaces or add more rooms than necessary. The owners of Nat’s House, a three-bedroom Federation villa in Cammeray, Sydney, were confident about what needed to be d
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Ulrica Trulsson
Australia has a fine tradition of contemporary ceramics made all the richer by artists such as Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Kirsten Coelho and Gerry Wedd. The name Ulrica Trulsson may not yet be as familiar, but her work is no less potent. Since undertaking
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Timber, Tufts & Terrazzo
Karndean Designflooring’s 2018 Spring Collection of flooring features fresh, on-trend colours and new light and neutral tones in the Gluedown range. Among the options are the new Urban Spotted Gum (pictured), Coastal Sawn Oak and Scandinavian Pine. k
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Marston Architects
Marston Architects is one of those much-admired practices where the team members are like family. The camaraderie and genuine delight they take in working alongside each other is palpable, as is the respect they share for principal Vivianne Marston,
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House Shmukler by Tribe Studio
Tribe Studio was a two-person band subletting the (curiously spacious) broom cupboard of a graphic design business when we started designing House Shmukler. We froze in winter and in summer the furnace-level heat was enhanced by the output and whirr
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Home And Away
Aura has added bed linen in a clay colour to its Maison Fringe collection. Conceived as a reminder of the natural beauty of Australia, the clay bed linen is evocative of a vast, sunburnt land. The clay colour is available in king- and queen-size quil
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Dyer Street House By James Russell Architect
Perched at the peak of its elevated site in the western Brisbane suburb of Chapel Hill, this ample and elegant house was originally designed in 1959 by architect Vitaly Gzell for the owner’s parents. It occupies its large acreage block in an elongate
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The Chimney House By Arque
The Chimney House was one of Arque’s first commissions, designed by co-directors Emma Rees-Raaijmakers and Suzanne Green. The pair had been practising architecture for more than twenty years before joining forces. Emma’s experience included six years
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Light Vault By Chamberlain Architects
The Light Vault residence by Chamberlain Architects in the Melbourne beachside suburb of Brighton is an example of what can happen when an architect and a client are completely aligned in their aesthetic choices. Unusually for Chamberlain, this house
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Moreton Manor By Co-ap Architects
Breathing new life into old structures must surely be one of the greatest rewards of architecture and interior design. It often requires radical intervention, mixed with a good dose of rigorous research and a carefully considered hand. CO-AP Architec
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The Bae Tas
Arriving at The Bae Tas, as this apartment is playfully named, one could mistakenly think that it is simply a light-filled, minimalist sitting room; an elegant anomaly hidden within a stack of tiny, student bolt holes, where one might sit and look ou
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Carpenter Hall House by Russell Hall
It was an early morning in March when I rushed across town to the north Brisbane suburb of Wilston, excited to have been commissioned to write a piece about the Carpenter Hall House. A Brisbane icon since construction began in the mid-1980s, the buil

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