A lighthouse, in its simplest function, calls you home. Alcorn Middleton’s Toowong Lighthouse is therefore aptly named: it is centred on concepts and materials of home. The Grecian-inspired build draws from home ties to the Cyclades and is sensitively designed for the existing residential footprint and climate of its Brisbane locale.
An extension for a growing family of five, the ‘lighthouse’ peers out behind the family’s existing 1930s Californian bungalow. High-set windows atop a double-height void draw sunlight into the living and family area. At night, these supersize windows glow like a beacon.
Toowong Lighthouse uniquely orchestrates sculptural forms of Aegean architecture with the modernist foundations of the existing home. The fresh, predominately whitewashed form
