Polly Harbison Design

Many of us are familiar with the striking simplicity and sculptural off-form concrete of Balmoral House in Sydney, a collaboration between Clinton Murray and Polly Harbison. The house was lauded in the 2015 Australian Institute of Architects and Houses Awards for its robust forms, which were notably dissimilar to much of Clinton’s earlier coastal residential work, predominantly in timber.

Since then, Polly’s work has appeared with increasing regularity in the press and annual awards, with her Macmasters Beach House awarded in 2017, and Castlecrag and Lindfield houses recognized in 2020. Pearl Beach House was lauded with the Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture in New South