Issue 135 August 2020

Houses

Be inspired by the best contemporary residential architecture and design.

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Musings
In an exciting milestone for Houses magazine, 2020 marks ten years of the Houses Awards. This year’s winning, commended and shortlisted entries are celebrated in this issue, recognizing the outstanding work of Australia’s residential architects and d
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Contributors
Michelle Bailey is an architecture and design writer based in Brisbane, Australia. She has visited close to 200 projects in South East Queensland and has written about these for local newspapers and national magazines. Shannon McGrath has been photo
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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 Ian Close Sue Harris
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Budge Over Dover By Ysg
Prior to designing this house, YSG principal Yasmine Saleh Ghoniem had worked with her client on Pacific Bondi, a 70-square-metre two-bedroom apartment (completed when Yasmine was a principal of interior design practice Amber Road). Newly engaged, wi
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Seawind By Coy Yiontis Architects
Architectural theorists Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown and Steven Izenour famously posed that a work of architecture could either be a duck or a decorated shed. The decorated sheds were featureless buildings that had been layered with a superfici
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Tjuringa House By Jesse Bennett Studio
A skilled architect and builder, Jesse Bennett established Jesse Bennett Studio with his partner Anne-Marie Campagnolo, an accomplished interior designer, in 2010. Their first project, Planchonella House in Cairns, proved their talent when it was awa
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Block House By Ha
The houses in Melbourne’s oldest suburb are scattered between commercial and industrial buildings and, increasingly, hip cafes that reveal themselves when the steel roller doors are up. Collingwood has been typified by this mix of small residential s
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Borrowed Light: Insights From A Coloursmith
“Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.” Fernand Leger 1881–1955 Colour, and the concept of colour, can be approached from different perspectives and disciplines, from the natural sciences to colour theories, t
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Houses Awards 2020
See more, visit housesawards.com.au/gallery Barrie Marshall established Denton Corker Marshall in 1972 with John Denton and Bill Corker, with whom he shares an Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal. He has an interest in all aspects of desig
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Cantala Avenue House By Me Gold Coast, Qld
Cantala Avenue House by ME champions the capacity of modest residential architecture to significantly impact the way we live in Australia. Sited within an unremarkable yet incredibly familiar suburban context, this alteration and addition to a ramsha
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Fitzroy North House 02 By Rob Kennon Architects Melbourne, Vic
Walking past this home, in a street full of heritage terrace houses in Fitzroy North, Melbourne, you may not immediately realize the building is new. From the street, the crisp facade of what at first appears to be a historic worker’s cottage hints a
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Subiaco House By Vokes And Peters Perth, Wa
Subiaco House by Vokes and Peters is radical by stealth. It wears the uniform of its Federation-era neighbourhood with polite grace: timber bay windows on street elevations; an exuberant hat of terracotta tiles; rainwater heads like neat broaches on
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Bismarck House By Andrew Burges Architects Sydney, Nsw
The mastery of Bismarck House, located on a corner block in a Bondi laneway, lies in its civic generosity to the urban margin. In crafting this extension to the rear of a typical semi-detached dwelling, Andrew Burges Architects has sought active enga
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Ruckers Hill House By Studio Bright Melbourne, Vic
Bands of stately Edwardian houses at the edges of our major cities mark the reach of tram and train lines over time. Ruckers Hill House by Studio Bright, an intriguing alteration and addition to one such Edwardian, reflects new changes to the city an
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Cantala Avenue House By Me Gold Coast, Qld
Once typified by scenes of bronzed bathers enjoying long, hot summers, the Gold Coast has been going through a slow transition from holiday playground to Australia’s sixth-largest city. With the unfortunate demolition of many of its understated 1950s
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Cremorne Point Apartment By Studio Plus Three Sydney, Nsw
Cremorne Point Apartment is a work of intelligent, restrained design. Its simplicity and limited palette of white walls and pale oak timber bring light and life deep into the interior of this moderately sized apartment in a way that might seem inevit
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Vaucluse Garden By Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture With Bates Landscape Sydney, Nsw
A dramatic clifftop site is carefully calibrated into a series of episodic encounters at Vaucluse Garden – of foregrounds and backgrounds, and worlds within worlds. Seeking first to establish the geologic circumstances of the escarpment, Jane Irwin L
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North Fitzroy House 02 By Rob Kennon Architects Melbourne, Vic
Fitzroy North House 02 by Rob Kennon Architects presents an elegant solution to the tension that can exist between a new house and its heritage streetscape. The home’s carefully composed form reflects the typical urban massing of Victorian cottages a
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Waratah Secondary House By Anthrosite Newcastle, Nsw
The jury found the deliberation for this year’s Sustainability Award to be a delightful challenge, given the breadth of mature and thoughtful shortlisted work that championed sustainability as inherent to good design. Waratah Secondary House by Anthr
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Lineburg Wang Brisbane, Qld
Established in 2016 by Michael Lineburg and Lynn Wang, Lineburg Wang is an emerging practice that has already asserted itself among Queensland’s wonderful lineage of architectural talent. The influence of work experience at prominent Brisbane-based p
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Commendations
SEE MORE, VISIT HOUSESAWARDS. COM.AU/GALLERY ■
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Shortlist
REGISTRATIONS FOR THE 2021 HOUSES AWARDS WILL OPEN IN JANUARY 2021. HOUSESAWARDS.COM.AU ■
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Durbach Block Jaggers
There is a new Australian residential architecture that has evolved over the past decade that aptly responds to our climate, natural landscape and social context in playful, joyous and inventive ways. A select few highly influential Australian practi
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Wilson Beach House
What kind of holiday house would make a suitable getaway if your main home had recently been awarded the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Queensland chapter’s 1964 Residence of the Year? This was the challenging decision faced by Pam Wilson,
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Out Driving
The State Library Victoria’s South Rotunda is a kind of in-between space. The small gallery could easily be overlooked by a preoccupied visitor, yet it is precisely this quality that made it an appropriate setting for the unassuming character of the

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