Issue 134 June 2020

Houses

Be inspired by the best contemporary residential architecture and design.

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Musings
We often talk about the house as a refuge, a place for respite, replenishment and calm. But our homes are also places for activity, harbouring spaces for creativity, industriousness and collaboration with our families. Whether it be baking a cake tog
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Contributors
Patrick is a writer and journalist. He was the associate editor of ArchitectureAU.com and is currently a producer for RNZ, New Zealand’s state broadcaster. Marnie is a senior project architect at Kennedy Nolan and a design studio leader at the Unive
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Gemma Savio Gemma Savio T: +61 3 8699 1000 houses@archmedia.com.au Katelin Butler Stephanie McGann Nicci Dodanwela Cassie Hansen Josh Harris Alexa Kempton Simone Wall Metrik studiometrik.com Michael Pollard Amy Banks Tash Fisher Lana Golubinsky Vi
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Fresh Finds
Made using premium fibre cement, James Hardie’s Hardie Deck combines durability and style. Its smooth finish is nail and splinter free, and helps prevents wide gaps between boards. Hardie Deck is resistant to damage from moisture, heat and sun. hard
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Park Road House By Lineburg Wang
In residential projects, there are often interesting backstories about how people find their architect. The clients of Park Road House connected with Michael Lineburg of Lineburg Wang after fancying the Sandgate Pier House in a design publication. It
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Garden House By Bkk Architects
What is a house for? Not every house is for the same thing. Well, obviously there are some common purposes – climate control, keeping the rain out, facilitating sleeping, storing things, preparing food and drink etc. This last category is normally fu
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Glassbook House By Sibling Architecture
In the sunbaked inner west of Sydney, Tempe is about as far from Paris as one can imagine. Yet inspiration from the city of love has found its way to these streets, in the transformation of a worker’s cottage from the Federation era. But more on Pari
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Kindred Meet The Owners
Gemma Savio Could you tell me a little bit about yourselves and your home? Emma I work for a not-for-profit and prior to that I worked in costume design for film and television. Alf used to work in advertising and now works as a creative director.
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Bookshelf
This bilingual photographic book tells the story of machiya, the traditional wooden townhouses found throughout Japan and typified in the historic capital of Kyoto. Machiya, the authors tell us, are not noble constructions, but practical living space
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Blinded By The Light
Daniel Boddam’s Celeste wall sconce is now available with a travertine shade complement. The stone’s unfilled, expressive character is evocative of coral, while the frosted globe floats like an oyster. The sconce is also available in custom stone fin
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Oliver du Puy
For Melbourne architect Oliver du Puy, designing residential architecture is like “painting a portrait” of his clients. He laments that, with the rise of real estate speculation, “homogeneity is creeping into homes.” “I always try to design with pers
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Kindred By Panov Scott Architects
To care for a relative into old age is one of life’s greatest privileges. It is both a challenge and a joy, and a rare opportunity for the reciprocated witnessing of life. This notion forms the basis for Kindred, an intergenerational family home desi
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Creature Comforts
Børge Mogensen designed the Huntsman Chair for Carl Hansen and Son in 1950, but the design has a timeless quality, with the premium materials allowed to shine. Both a dining and lounge chair, it is available from Cult in oak or walnut with saddle lea
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Breezeway House By David Boyle Architect
When I was young, we used to visit my uncle’s holiday house on the south coast of New South Wales. It was a small shack with a deep wraparound verandah where we slept through the summer nights. That memory of sleeping under an old, timber-framed roof
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Fiona Lynch
The work of Fiona Lynch is all about nuance. The moves are deep and embedded in rich materiality, not big, bombastic or formally gymnastic. As such, any meaningful discussion about the studio’s projects is of necessity a musing on detail and texture,
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Marine By David Barr Architects
Homeowners Sue and Rupert were charmed by the modest brick house on Marine Terrace when they purchased it in 2013. The ramshackle home comprised five original rooms and various lean-to structures that had been added at the rear over the years. Its el
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(W)right House by Charles Wright Architects
My first house, a holiday home for my extended family designed in mid-2014, marked the beginning of Charles Wright Architects. Having worked for nearly four years at Lyons in Melbourne, I wanted to fully immerse myself in a sea change and to delight
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Concrete Blonde By Carter Williamson
Do it once and do it right. That was the attitude of the clients of Concrete Blonde, who wished to create a beautiful,long-lasting addition for their Federation-era house in Annandale, Sydney. “It would be the one-in-100-year renovation for this hous
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Two Sheds By Dreamer With Roger Nelson
This is a house underscored by dualities. Some are born of the design, others are the product of an intriguing journey the client and architect both undertook. The site for the house – a coastal getaway on a 25-hectare, rurally zoned parcel of land h
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Marz Designs
“My style has evolved over the years, but I’ve always been drawn to the tactility and irregularity of handmade objects,” says Coco Reynolds. “There’s so much beauty in the imperfections.” The Byron Bay-based industrial designer established her studio
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Malvern Garden House By Taylor Knights
The way we live our lives has changed considerably over the past century, yet our cultural notions of the “home” have remained broadly the same: a refuge for ourselves and our families and a repository for the objects that we value that represents el
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Rickard Studio by Bruce Rickard
Dematerializing back into a sandstone escarpment in Sydney’s Woolloomooloo like an optical illusion sits the last home and office of revered architect Bruce Rickard. After Bruce’s death in 2010, his son Sam Rickard bought the property, now known as R
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Commercial Road
The blousing proportions of the traditional Australian suburban subdivision now seem impossibly, and perhaps a little irresponsibly, generous. The question of what to do with this surplus space has often been answered in an unsatisfying way. Vittino
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Fitzroy North House 02 By Rob Kennon Architects
At some point during the past five years, Melbourne-based Rob Kennon Architects began using project locations to refer to the houses designed by the practice. The earlier projects retained their more descriptive titles – such as the Sugar Gum, Datum

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