HOUSE FOR A GARDEN BY RETALLACK THOMPSON
It’s tempting to call this house alteration “slow architecture,” since its big idea was incubated over a few years, as its creators scoured the Sydney property market for a smallish place with potential.
Architects Jemima Retallack and Mitchell Thompson took a single-storey Federation-era semi and radically transformed it into a hidden oasis, where galley kitchen, dining and living rooms all converge around a central garden. The additions are minuscule, but delightful.
“We’d seen a lot of small houses in our search, and they all have a common problem – the
