Houses

Our homes are often woven into our memories of gatherings with friends and family, providing the backdrop to time spent in the company of those we love. Many of us delight in the nostalgia of the smells, the colours and the sounds of our childhood ho

1 Deck 2 Entry 3 Rumpus 4 Bedroom 5 Hallway 6 Stair 7 Kitchen 8 Dining 9 Living 10 Study Everyone has some sort of ritual after returning from the beach. For many, this ritual often involves dusting off sand and taking a quick rinse under the shower

1 Carport2 Laundry3 Living4 Terrace5 Kitchen6 Dining7 Library/bedroom8 Robe9 Bedroom10 Balcony11 Void12 Attic Located in the inner Brisbane suburb of Spring Hill, Green House is the third project designed by Brian Steendyk to occupy the same section

The phrase “less is more” was first used by Robert Browning in his poem Andrea del Sarto in 1855, but it rose to prominence in the middle of the twentieth century when it was associated with the minimalist movement in art, literature, music and archi

Kirsty Volz Tell me about yourselves and your downsizing journey. Ryan The process has been about a city change, the opposite of a sea change. We struggled with our mid-century home on a quarter-acre block for quite a few years. It was too perfect,

Belgian designer Dirk Wynants has given the traditional picnic table more leg space. Hopper has slanted legs and tabletop edges – a clear reference to the hop poles characteristic of the Westhoek region. The tabletop doubles as a backrest when the us

The story goes that Curzio Malaparte, standing with a visitor before his house, looked about the vertiginous rocky cliffs fortifying the island of Capri against the Tyrrhenian Sea and explained that the house, Casa Malaparte, was already here; his ro

1 Entry2 Garage3 Passage4 Bedroom5 Water tank6 Outdoor tub7 Drying court 8 Pantry9 Kitchen10 Dining11 Living12 Terrace13 Bar andplanter On a forested edge of the Margaret River townsite, a large block was cleared for development. Interest from prosp

1 Entry2 Hall3 Music/craft4 Garage5 Stair6 Laundry7 Pantry8 Kitchen9 Rumpus10 Bedroom11 Deck12 Living13 Dining14 Study15 Service yard Captivated by the natural beauty of Blackburn’s Bellbird area – a classified National Trust bushland just 16 kilome

When I attended a Christmas party at my mother’s then recently completed house in 2012, I walked in with few expectations, the last of which was that a chance meeting would lead to the beginning of my independent career as an architect. When I met Li

1 Bedroom 2 Laundry 3 Living 4 Courtyard 5 Kitchen/dining 6 Attic The streets of Paddington in Sydney are lined with Victorian-era homes adorned with ornamental iron lacework and decorative classical details. But it’s often impossible to tell what l

The small country town of Yackandandah in north-east Victoria is located at the confluence of two creeks. The area’s Traditional Custodians were dispossessed by European settlement, which was spurred during the mid-nineteenth century by a gold rush,

Stretching across a generous block in Adelaide’s leafy inner east, Jacaranda House has a solid street presence that belies the spatial dynamics and careful attention to private life that can be found behind its front facade. Working closely with the

Artist Penleigh Boyd is suggested to have done his best work painting plein-air on the banks of the Birrarung/Yarra River, in the bushy outer Melbourne suburb of Warrandyte. His son, architect Robin Boyd, spent his earliest years here, scrambling aro

At Hollow Tree House, so named because a hollowed trunk on this 1830s Tasmanian rural property once served as a post box, Core Collective Architects removed sheaths of aged wallpaper to reveal, and subsequently retain, colonial-era paintwork layered

In March, two years of ongoing research around retrofitting existing housing stock to better suit more diverse needs was presented in the exhibition RetroFit Kit: Design Tools for Making our Homes Accessible. At a 1:1 scale, a showroom-like installat