The Australian Women's Weekly

Dream houses

Like all of us, architects have learnt a lot from being housebound for much of 2020. A winning architect in the UK’s Home of 2030she was conscious of the need to create “space to work from home, without having your laptop on the kitchen table”. She and other entrants also created private outdoor spaces that backed onto community gardens, to capitalise on the emerging sense of “neighbourhood”.

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