Issue 145 April 2022

Houses

Be inspired by the best contemporary residential architecture and design.

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Contributors
Jack Lovel is an architectural photographer based in Melbourne but often found photographing projects in his home town of Perth. For the past five years, he has been documenting the architectural legacy of Iwan Iwanoff, culminating in the publication
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Alexa Kempton Alexa Kempton T: +61 3 8699 1000 houses@archmedia.com.au Katelin Butler Georgia Birks Nicci Dodanwela Jude Ellison Cassie Hansen Josh Harris Goran Rupena Janine Wurfel janine@studiometrik.com Michael Pollard Jacinta Reedy Ian Close Jane
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Fresh Finds
SBW has launched Type, a furniture collection designed and manufactured in Melbourne. Referencing modernist typography, the collection includes stools, dining tables, side tables, plinths and more. Monochromatic colours are used alongside timeless fi
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Stable House By Sibling Architecture
History weaves its way through Stable House via charming brick walls that brim with character and hint at Forest Lodge’s past. The area, a small inner-suburb of Sydney, was once home to Harold Park Paceway, a harness racing track that operated from t
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Fitzroy North House By Figureground Architecture
In generations to come, I wonder what anthropologists might glean about our shifting domestic mores from the way that we reconfigure heritage houses. Opening and extending them to welcome more light and air; building in flexibility for varied use, su
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Sunrise Studio By Bark Architects
One of my favourite television programs as a child was the award-winning mid-week drama A Country Practice. Running from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, the bucolic series followed the life and times of the tight-knit community living and working i
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Sunrise Studio Meet The Owners
Josh Harris You’ve been living in the house on this property – designed by architect Gabriel Poole – for around 10 years. When did you decide to commission an additional, separate studio for the site, and how did you connect with Bark Architects? Si
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Taro Studio
Architects can be dreamers or artists, inventors or technicians. Rarely are they all four, but some come close to that illusive coupling of logic and instinct. Sydney architect Charlotte Fayle might be one. I met Charlotte, founder of Taro Studio, at
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Colour Me Curious
Find more residential products: selector.com and productnews.com.au Kink is a series of handles that adds a playful detail and a touch of colour to furniture and cabinetry. A press brake, a machine typically reserved for sheet metal, is used to “kink
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Autumn House By Studio Bright
Rows of terraced houses make up much of the built character of Melbourne’s inner-north. Anyone who has lived in these parts will be familiar with their decorated facades, their linear plan and their propensity to trade access to daylight and connecti
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Phoenix House By Harley Graham Architects
Sometimes things happen for a reason. While the work of Byron Bay architect Harley Graham is more often associated with modernism (an architectural style he admits he’s drawn to), changed personal circumstances saw him end up in solo possession of a
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Yarra Bend House By Austin Maynard Architects
Beginning a piece of journalistic writing with a dictionary definition is something of a tired trope, but after meeting architect Andrew Maynard and his client Jane at the Yarra Bend House in Clifton Hill, I was compelled to look up a formal definiti
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Skeehan Studio
Tom Skeehan, founder of Skeehan Studio, is insatiably curious about the materials and processes in design or, put simply, what things are made from and how they are made. The Canberra-based designer, who started out in carpentry, cabinet-making and w
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15/Love House by Cumulus Studio
The global financial crisis was just beginning to make ripples in Tasmania when my fellow co-founders and I decided to move on from our current employment to start Cumulus. This apparent anti-timing for establishing our studio was complemented by our
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Esplanade House By Clare Cousins Architects
When designing houses in a heritage context, one challenge for architects lies in devising a contemporary home that sits respectfully in its setting, yet without imitation or pastiche. A strong but sensitive street presence was a predicament for Clar
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Marrickville Laneway House By Studio Weave Architects
Throughout the inner suburbs of Sydney, semidetached cottages are prolific. As the terrace house dwindled in popularity at the beginning of the twentieth century, the “semi” took its place as a source of inexpensive housing. Its modest design and sim
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Jimmy’s House By Mja Studio With Studio Roam And Iota
When architect Jimmy Thompson saw a 256-square-metre block listed for sale in North Perth – as he prepared to fly home from an overseas trip – he sketched out a design on the plane and purchased the block shortly thereafter. As design director at MJA
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HOUSES® Kitchens + Bathrooms
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YSG Studio
It’s hard not to be excited by YSG Studio. The practice’s work is like a great song that makes you want to turn up the volume and listen to it on repeat. Fed up with the bare white walls and grey concrete floors that define so much of Australian resi
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Fisher House by Alistair Knox
With a career that spanned from 1946 to 1986, builder and designer Alistair Knox (1912–1986) was a proponent of buildings that were wholly of their place. “The quest to express the region has always been my prime aim … I believe that a building in ex
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The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Architecture, space and the city are rich subjects for artistic practice. The Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art’s tenth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art is a future-focused edition, encompassing work by more than 150 individu
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Musings
This issue of Houses features stories about familiar housing types – from the Queenslander to the Victorian terrace and the semidetached cottage – that have been revitalized with inventive new layers that sit in harmony with the original. In Studio B

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