Issue 152 June 2023

Houses

Be inspired by the best contemporary residential architecture and design.

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Musings
There is a recurrent thread that unites the homes in this issue of Houses: a discussion about the constraints and opportunities of adapting older homes to suit modern life. Respecting the past, yet with an eye to the future, the design process often
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Contributors
Nikita Bhopti is an Indian-born Australian working as an architect, writer and curator. Nikita engages with various platforms, designers, artists and organizations to write about architecture, art and design, and is actively involved in curating indu
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Fresh Finds
Find more residential products: selector.com and productnews.com.au Originally designed in neutral colours, Palissade is now available in an iron red: a rich colour that brings warmth to outdoor settings, becoming more beautiful over the years. The
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Off Grid House By Archier
The desire to go off-grid is nothing new. In modern times, it goes back at least as far as Thoreau’s Massachusetts adventures, which began in 1845. I am sure a learned reader could take the concept back even further in the cultural record (the thirte
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Harriet’s House By So: Architecture
Australia’s colonial cottages are a challenge in the twenty-first century. They are rare, often charming traces of the settler history of our cities and towns. They are also places to reflect on the complications of colonial home building and making
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Fitzroy North Renovation By Therefore
As a brief, “single-fronted terrace house renovation” is not new. Often requested by young families, these works commonly share constraints and challenges: retain the front heritage rooms, demolish the rear, then arrange the program of bedrooms, bath
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Fitzroy North Renovation Meet The Owners
Alexa Kempton Can you tell me a little bit about yourselves and where you live? Jules Vleugel We are a family of four, and we’re deep in the throes of young family life. Before we bought this house, we had been living on the Mornington Peninsula, bu
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Second Edition
Second Edition: this studio’s name really speaks for itself. For founders Shahar Cohen and Amy Seo, finding a new life for materials or appliances that were set for landfill is the core of their practice and research. But Second Edition’s work is abo
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Old-world Charm
Find more residential products: selector.com and productnews.com.au Vincent Sheppard’s Loop outdoor seating collection is light and easy to move around. The tautly strung design gives a breezy look to a verandah, allowing air to circulate. Loop inc
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Oxlade By J. AR Office
When tasked with an apartment renovation, an architect is rarely afforded the opportunity to make significant spatial transformations. Limited by the base building’s structure, location of services and plan configuration, often a designer will be cor
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Fitzroy North Terrace By Clare Cousins Architects
Clare Cousins Architects has renovated a slightly peculiar house on a Fitzroy North corner. From the street, the existing house might first appear to be a perfectly typical Melburnian terrace – decorous, but unremarkably familiar. Its quirks become e
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Gardenvale By Ware Architects
This refurbishment to an elegant 1920s home marks the first project “of scale,” as Jono Ware puts it, for his recently formed practice, Ware Architects. A composed response to a modest brief, it possesses a grace and restraint that is uncommon to ear
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Jessica Loughlin
As a teenager, Jessica Loughlin stood outside a bus full of her fellow grade eight kids at a stop just outside Coober Pedy. Unlike most of her distracted classmates, she was mesmerized by the light and the scale of the sky. She took a photo that day,
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House for Jadeby Wellard Architects
My wife and I purchased our first house in 2013. We had been unsuccessful at several previous auctions, so when the hammer dropped and we were the successful bidders, we were elated – but later that evening, elation turned to overwhelming stress when
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Mary Street House By Edition Office
At Mary Street House, Edition Office has coaxed a Federation-era house into a mesmerizingly slow process of transformation. The restraint and precision with which the architecture of the home unfolds from old to new produces a quiet and considered st
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House Mitchell By Those Architects
In 2006, Ben Mitchell, a director of Those Architects, purchased an old cobbler’s workshop in Sydney’s Mosman to live in. You would be forgiven for romanticizing what that space might have looked like: an expansive warehouse gifted with high ceilings
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Local House By Zen Architects
Nestled into Eaglemont, a small suburb in Melbourne’s north, lies an unexpected little neighbourhood named Mount Eagle Estate. Designed by Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin in 1914, the estate was planned using garden suburb ideas, with long cu
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Williams Burton Leopardi
If you’ve recently come across a beautifully renovated Adelaide residence, chances are it’s the work of Williams Burton Leopardi. After all, the South Australian architecture and interior design practice’s signature is instantly recognizable, possess
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The Fishwick Houseby Walter Burley Griffin
In a quiet cul-de-sac in Castlecrag on Sydney’s North Shore, the Fishwick house by Walter Burley Griffin is approaching a century of occupation. Emerging from the sandstone ridge like a medieval rampart – stepped around boulders, blended into the lan
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Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter
In the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s new building, the exhibition Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter explores what “home” might mean. Looking beyond the architectural, the reflections in these collected works are not confined to perfect or happ
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Editor Alexa Kempton Editorial enquiries Alexa KemptonT: +61 3 8699 1000 houses@archmedia.com.au Editorial director Katelin Butler Editorial team Georgia BirksNicci DodanwelaJude EllisonCassie HansenJosh Harris Production Goran Rupena Desig

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