#93 Sep-Oct 2023

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Design . Architecture . Landscape . Travel

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Editorial
Small is beautiful … and, when you're talking about architecture, uses less energy and materials. Designing small spaces requires a deep dive into what is, and isn't, actually necessary. No wasted space and a focus on the details. In this issue we lo
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Upfront
Bolaji Teniola's trio of floor lamps are made from timber shavings, the by-product of hand-planed timber and a material customarily discarded or used for fire kindling. Influenced by the industrial atmosphere of the iconic malthouse silos in Melbourn
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Publisher Tom Bodycomb Editor Tamsin O'Neill Art Director Jenni Draper Assistant Editor Ellie Keft Sub Editor Tim Sheedy Contributors Houses/Gardens • Kath Dolan, Rebecca Gross, Monique Kawecki, Ellie Keft, Jenny Lyon, Georgia Thomas Profile • Penny
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Quiet Achiever
When Rhys and Jules Vleugel returned to Melbourne after a stint on the Mornington Peninsula, they bought a Victorian fixer-upper in inner-city North Fitzroy just before the 2020 Covid lockdown. Friends would sigh audibly on house tours. Not with envy
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First Serve
Ilona Topolcsanyi came to ceramics after a varied career including roles as a travel agent, a dental nurse and at an airline check-in, until one day she enrolled in a pottery class and was hooked. This varied experience has come in handy in building
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Specs
Therefore therefore.com.au Basis Builders Peachy Green Jones Landscapes Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country. Fitzroy North, Vic. The rear of the site has a southern orientation with poor access to natural light, made only more difficult by tall neighbouri
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Of Earth
Sally Meaton and Karl Whitehead first came across Mount Wilson, in the Blue Mountains, on a canyoning adventure in 2018. Falling in love with the area, they bought a property with the intention to build a prefab cabin for weekends away. “We realised
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Sally Meaton Karl Whitehead Invue Homes Taylor Thomson Whitting Dharug Country. Mount Wilson, NSW. The house is oriented to allow for large areas of north-facing glazing to the living areas. A generous eave protects the occupants from the high summer
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SAHA saha.sydney Keith March Constructions Cameraygal Land. Lane Cove, NSW. Passive thermal comfort was fundamental in space planning with the provision of three roof terraces, two of which are internal courtyards. These two courtyards create an east
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City in Mind
Rising above the detached brick houses of Brunswick is a captivating arrangement of new apartment buildings that are looking to redefine how Australians live in the inner suburbs. This cluster is the recently completed Nightingale Village which has b
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Design, Stacked
Built as a second storey stacked neatly on top of one of the client's parents’ single-storey house, this addition in Sydney's Lane Cove creates a new home for a young family in a housing affordability crisis, while also keeping close to family. Archi
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Clare Cousins Architects clarecousins.com.au Hacer Group Location Wurundjeri Country. Brunswick, VIC. Comprising 203 homes across six buildings, Nightingale Village is a zero gas, medium density residential precinct located in the heart of vibrant Br
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Out Of The Box
New Zealand architect William Samuels is an idealist. He hates the commodification of housing, the Antipodean obsession with real estate as investment. Yet he's also a pragmatic thinker. Which is why he decided to explore a different way for him and
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William Samuels Architects williamsamuels.co.nz William Samuels & Hannah D'Arcy (owner-builders) Whakatū/Nelson, New Zealand. Sustainable design was one of the most important considerations of this home, the owners wanting to tackle it differently ra
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Permaculture Tips
• Spring is the time to get your annual vegetables in as the more you can plant now, the better chance you have of a full harvest basket in summer and autumn. Most leafy greens are good to plant now, with warmth-loving vegetables such as pumpkin, cuc
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Upfront Garden
Powered by the sun, A Solar Powered Bench That Spins Ever So Slowly is a petal-shaped public artwork that slowly rotates both day and night, giving users a slowly transforming perspective of the public space and providing gentle opportunities for com
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Departure Lounge
• With travel resuming in a post-Covid world, families are seizing every opportunity to escape the domesticity of daily life. But what if you didn't need to leave the country (or even your home) to embark on the ultimate getaway? For Sunshine Coast l
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Warm Breeze
A sweet rejoining of two separate dwellings back to its original whole, this inner-city house is by architects Austin Maynard, who came to the design with the clients’ desire for a comprehensive edible garden front of mind. Fast forward to the end of
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Drifting Seaward
On our doorstep in south-western Victoria, the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is arguably the world's oldest engineered aquaculture system, dating back over 6000 years. I will be upfront; I had a limited knowledge of this highly significant area when it
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What I Like About You
Haldenstein, Switzerland Architect: Peter Zumthor Inspired by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor's Australian Architecture Association's Black Talk in Sydney in 2004, Lindy Atkin and Steve Guthrie from Bark Architects asked the associatio

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