Issue 144 February 2022

Houses

Be inspired by the best contemporary residential architecture and design.

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Musings
Conversations between clients and architects revolve around how good design can improve the way a client lives, and how the barriers of budgets, climate and existing site conditions can be overcome with sensitivity, creativity and resourcefulness. In
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Contributors
Hamish McIntosh is a photographer based in Sydney. His work explores architecture and urbanism. He is a co-author of Regional Bureaucracy (Perimeter Editions, 2022). A freelance journalist living in Bondi, Peter Salhani is co-founder and editor of S
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House For A Garden By Retallack Thompson
It’s tempting to call this house alteration “slow architecture,” since its big idea was incubated over a few years, as its creators scoured the Sydney property market for a smallish place with potential. Architects Jemima Retallack and Mitchell Thomp
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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 Jacinta Reedy Ian Close Jane
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Fresh Finds
Featuring curving legs inspired by the movement of soft fabric, the Teatro Magico table is designed by Italian architecture studio 967 Arch for Saba. The sinuous curves cast different shadows as the light changes. Legs can be single or paired and are
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Clayfield Fern House By Paul Butterworth Architect
When an architect meets their client and discussions take place, the transformative process of architecture begins. For Brisbane architect Paul Butterworth, initial conversations with his clients about the need to remedy the shortfalls of their Queen
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House For Eva And Matilda Meet The Owners
Georgia Birks Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and what you wanted in your new home? Eva Sarr I am a sixth-generation Australian. My father was African and my mother was Scottish–Irish–Australian. I grew up internationally and what I real
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House For Eva And Matilda By Mrtn Architects
The streets and laneways of Brunswick are full of clever urban infill projects. A walk around the neighbourhood reveals some innovative insertions and adaptions to one of Melbourne’s more diverse suburbs. It’s a challenging and rewarding context for
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Miles Thorp
Lewis Miles and Chris Thorp of Sydney-based practice Miles Thorp believe in hardworking architecture. The two originally met while studying architecture, first teaming up on the design of a temporary pavilion for the Sydney Architecture Festival at C
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Surround By Laminex Decorative Wall Panels
Applying texture to a wall surface can bring a whole new dimension to a home’s interior. And now there’s a new way to achieve this with the launch of Surround by Laminex, a highly versatile decorative wall panelling solution. Surround by Laminex pane
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Bookshelf
Long-time friends Jan Henderson and Dianna Snape have teamed up for this survey of 22 Australian houses, which focuses on those parts of the home that people naturally gravitate to – the “heart” that gives the book its title. The writer-and-photograp
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Service Stations
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231 Napier Street By Edition Office For Milieu
Edition Office’s projects commence with a process of abstraction. Contextual and conceptual relationships are distilled into a discrete set of design ideas. These are represented in the form of models and diagrams, which then serve as touchstones dur
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Paddington House II By Tribe Studio Architects
At some stage, many of us have dreamt of joining two houses into one. When the house doesn’t seem to be big enough to take what life throws at you, that dream of adding extra space by expanding up, down or even sideways – particularly if you’re in a
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K House By Renato D’ettorre Architects
When we think of coastal living, we tend to focus on pleasant images of blue skies and calm seas. The reality of building a home on the continental edge of Australia presents a number of very real and very challenging conditions. Renato D’Ettorre Arc
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James Howe
When James Howe stumbled across Børge Mogensen’s iconic J39 Shaker-style chair online in 2015, it was the catalyst for his interest in furniture. He left his career as a magazine writer to become a furniture designer and, a year later, joined the ass
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Mary Residence by Matt Gibson
When the clients of Mary Residence, Gill and Laura, came to me in 2005, times were different. There was no social media, websites had just become a thing and I can still remember receiving the signed fee agreement by fax. At the time, I’d been in bus
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Evelyn By Myers Ellyett
Paddington is an inner-city Brisbane suburb defined by charming timber-and-tin houses dotted across an undulating landscape. The spaces between these houses are seasonally punctuated by bursts of purple and red from flowering jacaranda and poinciana
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Coastview Apartment By Andrew Burges Architects
The ocean is endlessly fascinating. The immense horizon, the power of crashing waves and the calmness that being by water brings all add to the magic. It can be both violent and beautiful, dark and inspiring, loud and calming. It may seem obvious, bu
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Poinciana House By Nielsen Jenkins
Poinciana House, situated in Brisbane’s inner south, is Nielsen Jenkins’s trans-formative reworking of an Edwardian timber bungalow that orchestrates the experience of a scenic location into the patterns of daily life. The bungalow’s east-facing stre
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Pond[er]
Have you ever seen photographs of Australia’s pink lakes? No, the images aren’t photoshopped, and no, nobody tipped a truckload of musk sticks into a pond. These are real, naturally occurring bodies of water in blushing shades, from fairy floss to bu
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Courtyard House by Bill Shugg
Hidden down a driveway, behind a grand colonial house in South Hobart, is a modernist urban paradise built by architect Bill Shugg (1925–2009) for his family in the early 1960s. This wonderful, understated home was masterfully designed to adapt to co
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Architecture Architecture
There is something disarming about an architect being caught unawares by a project’s popularity, not through lack of belief or false humility but rather the genuine surprise that comes from a humble project tapping into the Zeitgeist. “When we finish

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