Local Character
Jul 14, 2018
3 minutes
text: Zoe Deleuil
The writer is Felix Oefelein’s partner.
photography:
Dion Robeson
The tiny suburb of Highgate in Perth still has many of its original buildings, including grand Federation homes, narrow workers’ cottages and a heritage-listed red-brick primary school, built in 1895 and one of the oldest in Western Australia. All these existing elements drove the design of architect Felix Oefelein’s family home, a modern take on a gable-roofed character home, built in what was the backyard of a sub-divided Federation property.
“We were living in the area,
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