Houses

Kerry is co-director of Clare Design with her partner Lindsay Clare. Lindsay and Kerry were jointly awarded the Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal in 2010 and have more than forty awards for built works. Their practice is now based in Syd

The Cabbage Tree House is a remarkable, complete Australian house that authentically and poetically embraces its landscape setting on Sydney’s northern beaches. Anchored in a rock shelf, the masonry structure leans back into the hillside as a “physic

Springhill House makes a significant contribution to residential architecture in Australia. It responds to its setting, brief and budget with utility, clarity and rigour. Sited on a north-facing slope in a disused agricultural paddock, this house for

Sited on and leaning back into a dramatic north-facing escarpment, Cabbage Tree House powerfully anchors inhabitation and mass. With stepping volumes and a plan that expands broadly to the north, the house offers a variety of spaces for activity in,

Hole in the Roof House is a delightful alteration and addition to a suburban bungalow, located on a noisy road close to Bronte Beach. The originally unremarkable home has been transformed into a “domestic sanctuary” by cutting a hole in the roof to m

With a growing appetite for micro-domestic space in the residential market, this tiny renovated apartment is a timely reminder that the division and articulation of territory in the home are essential, no matter the scale. In this instance, the clear

Nightingale 1 is the beginning of an ambitious experiment that aims to shift the status quo of apartment design in Australia. It is the commitment and self-belief, plus the tireless campaigns, that make this project so successful, sustainably. Nighti

A garden is one of the most compelling symbols of home. The design brief for this project was a large house; however, the architects responded with a strategy for a large garden. Here, a new flamboyant family home is set in an exotic coastal garden t

While the site and existing building aren’t noted for their individual heritage contribution or significance, they fall within the fine-grain precinct of the Woollahra Heritage Conservation Area C15 of inner Sydney. Accordingly, this project was subj

Sydney-based Brad Swartz Architects won the Apartment or Unit category of the 2015 Houses Awards with the twenty-seven-square-metre Darlinghurst Apartment, in the same year that the practice was established. Since then, this emerging practice has con

Takagi is a leading Japanese water solutions company with over 1.3 million customers in Japan. All Takagi products are made in Japan and are high quality, compact, and easy to use and maintain. Takagi has recently entered the Australian market and is

What was the design thinking behind the development of Fisher & Paykel’s new Integrated Column Refrigeration range? Mark Haydon: While we were developing these new refrigerators and freezers we really listened to the architecture and design communit

There is some magic being woven on a heavily treed site in Kew, Melbourne, the home of Make Architecture. A black-clad barn within this bucolic idyll on the banks of the Yarra is the place where a particular stream of carefully considered, highly cra

In a peaceful precinct of Melbourne’s Northcote, bounded by Merri Creek and Oldis Gardens, the blackened form of Ross House rises boldly between quaint, single-storey bungalows. Designed by Ola Studio, the double-storey family house thoughtfully addr

Each alteration is a ‘retelling’ of the building as it exists at a particular time – and when the changes are complete it becomes the existing building for the next retelling” – Edward Hollis, The Secret Lives of Buildings. Every house has a story. T

Some fifty years since the publication of Robin Boyd’s The Australian Ugliness, architecture and suburbia still have an uneasy relationship. The Australian suburbs have traditionally been seen as the void between the architectural production of the i

Occasionally there are houses we encounter that seem to reach out and grab our imagination with an unshakeable grip. These houses may simply embody the qualities we’re looking for; sometimes, however, they capture the imagination due to elusive, unde

It’s fitting for a house that hatched a revolution to be somewhat revolutionary itself. Pymble House by Russell Jack of Allen Jack and Cottier is a heroic Sydney School project that has been something of a well-kept secret between the neighbours, the

A nine-metre-high section of the facade of the brutalist Robin Hood Gardens housing estate by the late Alison and Peter Smithson, supported by scaffolding and silhouetted against the Venetian sky, is a mute testament to the architects’ utopian ideals