Issue 143 December 2021

Houses

Be inspired by the best contemporary residential architecture and design.

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Musings
From tranquil and introspective private courtyards to a garden room that engages respectfully with its surroundings, the homes in this issue reveal how outdoor spaces can be thoughtfully orchestrated to enrich domestic spaces. In Brisbane, Cavill Arc
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Contributors
Kim Irons is principal of Irons McDuff Architecture. Her bushfire rebuilding experience extends from Victoria to northern Queensland, including provision of pro bono services in response to the 2009 and 2020 bushfires. Dianna Snape is a Melbourne-ba
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Alexa Kempton Alexa Kempton T: +61 3 8699 1000 houses@archmedia.com.au Katelin Butler Georgia Birks Nicci Dodanwela Cassie Hansen Josh Harris Goran Rupena Janine Wurfel janine@studiometrik.com Michael Pollard Tash Fisher Danny Innes Jacinta Reedy Ian
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Fresh Finds
Workshop is a deliberately simple table design that offers a refined and understated aesthetic. A solid oak frame is paired with an oak veneer or linoleum tabletop. Workshop is available in two sizes, with the smaller version designed for the home of
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Earl Parade Residence By Cavill Architects
Located in the suburb of Manly, nestled into the edge of Moreton Bay, Earl Parade Residence is tuned to its location, designed to enable its occupants to experience the coastal lifestyle of bayside Brisbane. The site for the new house was a relativel
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House K By Kart Projects
When homeowners Tim and Cinzia engaged Kart Projects to design a modest extension to their semidetached house in Melbourne’s Fairfield, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, there was an immediate, shared understanding ab
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Fusilier Cottage Addition By Bence Mulcahy
An enjoyable lesson from my architecture degree concerned the ways in which grades of private and public space could be articulated, and the understanding that variations between these states were arrived at through subtle manipulations of distance,
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Fusilier Cottage Addition Meet The Owners
Georgia Birks Can you tell us a little bit about yourselves, and describe what it was about Fusilier Cottage that interested you? Mark Heyward I was born in Hobart and spent the first half of my life here working as a teacher and then a school princ
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Placement Studio ONE TO WATCH
There is a rich sense of nostalgia in the work of Placement Studio. It plays out in lovingly crafted timber joinery, in immaculately laid brickwork, in spaces that evoke the warmth and comfort of an earlier time. To be clear, though, there is nothing
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The Great Outdoors
Accolade by Urbanstone is a meticulously crafted small-format paver for the outdoors. It is cast from sand, stone and cement, rendering it resistant to the wear and tear associated with high-use outdoor areas. It is available in five colours inspired
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Coopworth By Fmd Architects
Visitors to Tasmania’s Bruny Island will undoubtedly swoon over the pristine beaches and incredible rock formations, but they might also fall for the rural sheds and cottages that stand alone in the island’s paddocks, some immaculate strongholds of t
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Fitzroy Bridge House By Matt Gibson Architecture And Design
Fitzroy, together with its neighbours Collingwood and Richmond, is one of Melbourne’s earliest suburbs – where the first suburban land allotments beyond the Melbourne town reserve were sold. South Fitzroy is layered with a rich tapestry of residentia
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Queens Park House By Kyra Thomas Architects
Architect Kyra Thomas’s new family home sits within the walls of an old warehouse in the middle of a suburban block in Queens Park, Sydney. It’s accessed by two long driveways that extend to opposite sides of the block and is surrounded by 22 neighbo
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Products
Roofing: Lysaght Klip-Lok in Colorbond ‘Monument’ External walls: Austral Bricks Commons in Raw Dry Press; Sto Australia Sto-RFP render and StoColor Maxicryl tinted paint Internal walls: Gyprock Soundchek in Dulux ‘Vivid White’ Windows: Vitrocsa VA M
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Smart And Sustainable
Armadillo’s rugs are made by hand from carefully sourced natural materials – a slow and sustainable process of craftsmanship. The Aspen rug has a quiet presence with its one-sided soumak weave creating a soft and linear texture inspired by alpine slo
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Gam Fratesi FURNITURE AND LIGHTING DESIGNER
The fusion of Italian and Danish cultures underscores everything Gam Fratesi does. Founded in 2006 by Enrico Fratesi, originally from the seaside town of Pesaro on Italy’s Adriatic coast, and Copenhagen-born Stine Gam, the design studio is recognized
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Avoca Beach House by Studio Prineas
In the early days of our fledging studio, some of our first commissions came through close family and friends. Avoca Beach House (see Houses 86), on the New South Wales Central Coast, was designed for my aunt and uncle and was a particularly personal
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Ashgrove Hillside House By Kieron Gait Architects
In Ashgrove in Brisbane’s inner west, Kieron Gait Architects (KGA) has achieved a genuinely surprising transformation of an existing house that occupies an arrestingly unusual site. Nestled into the southern base of Taylor Range, it’s part of a uniqu
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Products
Roofing: Lysaght Trimdek in ‘Surfmist’ External walls: Eco Timber charred shiplap in crackled finish with Cutek Black Ash coating; board-formed concrete Internal walls: Plasterboard in Dulux ‘Whisper White’; oak veneer panels Windows and doors: Finla
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Mosman Minka By Downie North
When talking about the design of Mosman Minka, Cat Downie and Dan North describe their idea of curating a view, while simultaneously nurturing private spaces. The design of this house was spurred by the desire to live outside as much as possible and,
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Products
Roofing: elZinc double standing seam in ‘Slate Grey Zinc’ External walls: Reclaimed double brick bagged and painted in Dulux ‘Natural White’; Weathertex Selflok Ecogroove Smooth 150 mm in Dulux ‘Klute’ Internal walls: Plasterboard in Dulux ‘Natural W
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Building For Bushfire
OFF GRID FZ HOUSE by Anderson Architecture WYE RIVER HOUSE by Matt Goodman Architecture Office SPROUT HOUSE by Barnacle Studio In Australia, the beauty and appeal of living in the bush often goes hand in hand with our country’s vulnerability to bu
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Off Grid Fz House
Architect Anderson Architecture +61 2 9319 0224 info@andersonarchitecture.com.au andersonarchitecture.com.au Project team Simon Anderson, Alexandra Woods, Rena Wang, Damien Wilmotte, Anastasia Uricher Builder Against the Grain Engineer Partridge, Bi
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Wye River House
Architect Matt Goodman Architecture Office +61 401 298 561 office@mgao.com.au mgao.com.au Project team Matt Ross Goodman, Callum Andrews, Luca D’Auria, Edwin Jiang Builder Basebuild Construction Structural engineers Webb Consult, Simon Anderson Cons
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Sprout House
Architect Barnacle Studio morgen@ barnaclestudio.com.au barnaclestudio.com.au Project team Morgen Figgis, Mignon Steele Builder Greensmith and Co. Structural engineer ROC Engineering Design Fire consultant Harris Environmental Consulting Geotech eng
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ME Architects
Queensland’s Gold Coast projects an image of a life spent under the sun, inhabiting golden sandy beaches that stretch along the edge of the Pacific Ocean. However, the experience of dwelling on the Gold Coast elicits a much richer and diverse way of
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Kessell House by Iwan Iwanoff
In 1975, when Kessell House was completed, Iwan Iwanoff (1919–1986) was a prolific and successful architect in Perth, yet he was barely known outside of his adopted home. Born in Bulgaria, Iwanoff had arrived in Perth in 1950 as a well-trained Easter
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Dolphin Sands Studio
This little building epitomizes what so many of us have been dreaming about in recent months. Lockdowns and travel bans have kept us in the one place, romanticising about getting away and feeling free (and somewhat normal) again. For Matt Williams Ar

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