Issue 128 June 2019

Houses

Be inspired by the best contemporary residential architecture and design.

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Musings
The universal plan of the courtyard house is often seen on the pages of Houses and that’s because it is so well-suited to the Australian context. A private, walled sanctuary offers refuge and respite from the hustle and bustle of the daily grind. The
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Favourites from Maison&Objet
Seletti’s Kintsugi tableware collection by Marcantonio has been expanded with the addition of bowls and glasses. The collection draws on the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with a golden lacquer. The resulting pieces are given imperfect, ind
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Teneriffe House By Vokes And Peters
As a visitor to Brisbane, I’ve noticed that the city’s body of residential architecture offers a greater sense of openness and generosity to the suburban streetscapes than elsewhere in the eastern states. This reflects the people who call Brisbane ho
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Storybook House By Folk Architects
Folk Architects has named its renovation of an inner-city Melbourne terrace the “Storybook House.” The name largely comes from its new rear facade and steeply pitched roof form, clad in vanilla and cream glazed terracotta shingles. The resultant form
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Hello Houses Sibling Architecture
The verandah is a cherished place in Australian folklore. Paintings, poetry and literature idolize a life spent semi-outdoors, hobnobbing over beverages. But while the sight of tea sipping and biscuit eating out on the verandah is an increasingly rar
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Hello Houses Meet The Owners
Linda Cheng Could you tell us a little about your family and your background? Kristan Kirkpatrick I’m a mum. My husband and I have a young daughter. I was born in Port Fairy (in south-western Victoria) and my parents still live here. After moving to
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Kin Architects
It was a frank and honest conversation about their fears around moving to independent practice that proved Leah Gallagher and Marjorie Dixon’s compatibility as partners in the business of architecture. The alumni of the University of Queensland’s Sch
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Bookshelf
The story of the kitchen’s changing role – from hidden-away, utilitarian space to the most important room in the house – has become somewhat old hat. When food writer Mina Holland declares in the introduction to Kitchen Living that “the kitchen has t
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Waltz
Partners in life, business and design, Surya Graf and Lindy Shaw actively embrace life’s natural rhythms, a notion reflected in their aptly named design studio, Waltz. “It’s a bit emotive [the word, Waltz],” Lindy says. “You imagine two people engage
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Light & shade
Expanding on Menu’s Cast light series, designers Tom Chung and Jordan Murphy have created a “small but mighty” shade concept for wall applications. The Cast wall sconce unites triangular, linear and round elements to create a sophisticated geometric
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Hawthorn House By Edition Office
From beyond the property’s weathered, grey Oregon fence, Hawthorn House by Edition Office presents as a beautifully textured concrete box, its interior apparently carved out by a sweeping, almost improbably wide, arch at ground level. At a stretch, o
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CAMP HILL HOUSE BY TWOHILL & JAMES
Camp Hill House began as a modest interwar cottage located in Camp Hill, six kilometres south-east of the centre of Brisbane. The existing dwelling had a typical closely packed floor plan: living space to the south, flanked by bedrooms and a sleep-ou
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Laal
Collaborative duos come in many forms,but it is relatively rare to see siblings working together in the design realm. Lydia and André Hnatojko credit the strength of their collaboration to being able to “fight well.” They are trained, respectively, i
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NORTH FITZROY BY MILIEU BY FIELDWORK & FLACK STUDIO
The three-storey walk-up apartment building was once the quintessential architectural solution for densifying Australian cities. As the population of our capitals expanded during the 1960s and ‘70s, red brick flats were steadily constructed along the
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Make Yourself At Home
Mondo is a solid, fixed-form sofa from Arthur G. The saddle-stitched lines tracing over the sofa’s form have been pulled in, creating a quilted seat and back, and resulting in a dynamic play of light and shade. Made in Melbourne, Mondo has a Victoria
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Sparks Architects
A reverence for the coastal and mountainous landscapes of South East Queensland was one of the reasons Dan Sparks was enticed to the Sunshine Coast after graduating in architecture from Brisbane’s University of Queensland in 2001. The decision to est
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632 Bourke by Smart Design Studio
Eighteen years ago, I decided it was time to find and create a studio space for Smart Design Studio. It took two years to find the right site, and when I came across a pair of dilapidated buildings in Sydney’s Surry Hills, I could immediately see the
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Tierney Drive House By Me
The first thing to note about this fine house by architecture practice ME is the subtlety with which it occupies its address in Currumbin Waters on the Gold Coast. Facing the street is a series of low walls: timber giving way to carefully punctuated
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House In Darlinghurst By Tribe Studio
The building fabric of a city is a social, cultural and economic storyboard that we can use to read our historical relationship with our environment. Set low in a once industrial laneway in Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Darlinghurst, this former elec
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Courted House By Breakspear Architects
Picture a street in Rome, Mexico City or Kyoto – a place where houses look nothing like they do here. Instead of hipped roofs and wide verges, suburban fences and setback lawns, there is the elemental offering of a strong, defensive wall. In each of
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Droga Apartment by Durbach Block Jaggers
When originally published in Houses back in 1998 (see issue 16), the Droga Apartment was presented with the headline “Zinc Slink.” There have been many articles written about this iconic project by Durbach Block Jaggers (then Durbach Block Architects
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Home: A Suburban Obsession
All exhibitions have a starting point. In the case of the architectural exhibition Home: A Suburban Obsession, it was the 1995 donation to the State Library of Queensland of more than 60,000 discarded prints, rescued from the under-house of husband-a
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Fitzroy North House By Rob Kennon Architects
There is nothing ostentatious about this house. At first glance it’s not obvious that a renovation has occurred at all; the single-fronted Victorian heritage facade remains intact, complete with leadlight sidelights in the window and original door kn

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