Issue 133 April 2020

Houses

Be inspired by the best contemporary residential architecture and design.

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Musings
More and more in our cities – and online – individuals are getting together to share their collective voice. And although it is expressed in many ways, overwhelmingly, the shared sentiment is one of community and empathy. The homes in this issue show
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Contributors
Michael Macleod is a director of architecture at Kennedy Nolan. He also teaches, is involved with the Australian Institute of Architects and has an interest in the social responsibilities of architects. Genevieve Lilley is an architect practising in
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Editor Gemma Savio Editorial director Katelin Butler Assistant content editor Stephanie McGann Editorial team Nicci Dodanwela Cassie Hansen Josh Harris Alexa Kempton Production Simone Wall Design Metrik studiometrik.com General manager sales & digit
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Favourites from Maison&Objet
Performing as both a decorative and a practical piece, the Silica ceramic basket from Barcelona brand Octaevo is made of delicately woven earthenware, typifying the southern European aesthetic of organic forms and geometric lines. It is available in
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A Decade Of Residential Design SPOTLIGHT
The tenth year of the Houses Awards provides a golden opportunity to look in the rear-view mirror at a decade of Australian residential design. Through the specific lens of Australian House of the Year award winners, we are able to consider how archi
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Cantala Ave House By Me
This thoughtful reworking by ME of a 1970s split-level house in the Gold Coast suburb of Miami opens up an internalized floor plan to create a connected and contemporary home for a young family of four. Located in a quiet cul-de-sac, Cantala Cottage
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Park Life By Architecture Architecture
Park Life is located on a corner in the Champion Road Estate Precinct, a largely intact pocket of 1940s Housing Commission duplexes beside the vast Newport railyards in the Melbourne bayside suburb of Williamstown. A cluster of compact houses set wel
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PADDINGTON HOUSE BY TWOHILL & JAMES
On the treacherously steep streets of Paddington, Brisbane, the city’s vernacular architecture and distinctive topography converge. The rise and fall of pyramid roofs measure the steepness of the terrain and the scale and rhythm of the street plays o
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Paddington House Meet The Owner Working With An Architect
Michelle Bailey What were your early ambitions for this project? Bobby Coulston My idea was to find a “renovator”– a side project that would challenge me and that I could sell when it was finished. Because of this, I was looking for the most rundown
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Youssofzay and Hart ONE TO WATCH
In the spring and summer of 2019–2020, Australia’s bushfire crisis dominated the headlines domestically and internationally, putting climate and the environment at the forefront of everyone's minds. Many architects and designers have found themselves
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Bookshelf
From Sydney design writer Penny Craswell, this new book on Australian residential architecture highlights individual pieces of furniture and lighting, and explores how these objects are integral to the interior design of the spaces they occupy. In li
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Soothe The Senses
Blum’s Expando T fitting is a thin-front solution for cupboard doors and drawers, allowing for a plethora of finishes to be used in bathroom furniture, from laminate to concrete, stone to ceramics. Expando T is suitable for fronts as thin as eight mi
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Immerse Yourself In A New Era Of Luxurious Bathing
Phoenix Tapware’s NX Showers range has expanded to include two new collections that take luxurious bathing to the next level. Building on its reputation for impeccable design and innovation, Phoenix has created the Iko and Orli collections, both of w
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A Lustrous Finish For The Bathroom
When it comes to building or renovating a bathroom or laundry, luxurious finishes and a creative use of colour don’t have to be limited to tiles and tap fittings. Stormtech’s range of coloured grates, in marine grade stainless steel, serve as a desig
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Calen Knauf STUDIO
There are many phrases that come to mind when describing Calen Knauf’s work: eclectic, dynamic and just downright cool. The Vancouver-based designer established Knauf and Brown with Conrad Brown in 2013 following their graduation from Emily Carr Univ
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Ruckers Hill House By Studio Bright
Marking the threshold between old and new in this lyrical family home, on the crest of Melbourne’s Ruckers Hill, is a vivid story of place etched in stained glass. At the base of the scene, depicted in section, murrnong sprout from the earth, their s
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COASTAL HOUSE BY O’CONNOR & HOULE
The Mornington Peninsula narrows as you head toward Sorrento, with the relative calm of Port Phillip Bay to the north and the wilds of Bass Strait to the south. Residents of this area tend to define themselves by living on either side of this thin st
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Ballast Point House By Fox Johnston
The Sydney harbourside suburb of Birchgrove is one of those places that has a kind of forced perspective about it. As you travel deeper into the peninsula, the streets get narrower and the houses feel like they start to lean towards you. Taken and oc
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Benn + Penna IN PROFILE
In small alterations and additions projects, it takes an exceptional level of skill to make calm and considered spaces. Benn and Penna’s work, of a modest scale thus far, is well known for consistently minimizing unnecessary trickiness and maximizing
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Vincent Street House by Finn Pedersen FIRST HOUSE
In 1997, my wife Rhoda and I moved back to Perth after spending five years living in Broome and working in the Kimberley. For some time, we rented an apartment in Sunny Meed, the iconic block on Mount Street designed by mid-century architects Krantz
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Ross Thompson STUDIO
Growing up, Ross Thompson could most likely be found in the back shed of his family’s home in Ballarat, Victoria, helping his dad repair stuff and build things. Little wonder, then, that he decided to undertake a furniture apprenticeship at a local D
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Beaumaris Residence By Studiofour
Sarah Henry embarked on the design of her own home after almost 10 years of running architecture practice Studiofour with co-director Annabelle Berryman. Sarah’s home, Beaumaris Residence, belongs neatly within Studiofour’s body of work. Yet at the s
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Reed House By Beth George
Reed House is an architecture of intimate collaboration. It is intertwined with the life story of the architect Beth George and her clients: her sister Fran (an archaeologist), brother-in-law Mark (whom she has known since their teenage years) and th
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Cloud Cottage By Takt Studio
As you weave through the flat residential grid of streets in Bowral, a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, a pattern emerges. Front gardens are populated with hedges, picket fences, decorative gates, garage doors and, generally, a flow
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Way House by Darryl Way REVISITED
Can we ever really establish where ideas come from? The unlikeliness of this humble house, built in 1975 by architect Darryl Way for his family in the Perth western suburb of Claremont, remains intriguing, even after intimate conversations with the l
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Designing a Legacy LIVE SHOW
There is no lofty architectural discourse and there are no grand designs in this film night. Far from it. Thank God. Building on his popular ABC TV series Streets of Your Town, Tim Ross’s latest show is a live presentation of short films that delve i

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