Houses, August 2020
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Functionality and beauty: Budge Over Dover
Perched on a hillside in Sydney’s coastal suburb of Dover Heights, this vibrant house by YSG riffs on tone and texture to create a sculptural backdrop to the life of a growing family.
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2020 Houses Awards: Sustainability
The jury lauded this small, humble project, adding that it “delivers something that we need to see more of in our cities.”
‘A perfect home for our third age’: Seawind
Divided into two highly personalized living wings, this home in regional Victoria is unequivocally functional while also deeply symbolic of its owners’ lives.
Revisited: Wilson Beach House
Wilson Beach House on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast offers an enduring example of elegant and expressive Australian design.
The pursuit of endless surprise: Durbach Block Jaggers
One of a select few practices to have driven a new Australian vernacular, Durbach Block Jaggers is known for its dynamic buildings that embody cheekiness, wit, nuance and surprise.
Raw beauty: Block House
Inspired by the raw, expressive quality of classic brutalist architecture, this Melbourne home draws on the once gritty and industrial character of its neighbourhood to create a calming, cave-like oasis.
A building that plays with time: Tjuringa House
Motif, texture and concrete acrobatics unite in this sculptural new home, befitting its majestic escarpment setting on the precipice of Toowoomba’s Great Dividing Range.
2020 Houses Awards: Commendations
Twenty-two projects and two emerging practices have received commendations in the 2020 Houses Awards.
2020 Houses Awards: Emerging Architecture Practice
This practice has asserted itself among Queensland’s architectural talent and added its own palpable freshness.
2020 Houses Awards: New House Under 200m2
Behind an unusual entry, the main volume of this house sits between a verdant front courtyard and a rear outdoor living space.
2020 Houses Awards: House in a Heritage Context
The architect has used traditional materials in a contemporary way to create a quietly powerful statement.
2020 Houses Awards: Garden or Landscape
In this winning garden, the dramatic clifftop scenery is carefully calibrated into a series of episodic encounters.
2020 Houses Awards: Apartment or Unit
The architects’ sure hand and subtle confidence has brought life and light deep into the modestly sized space.
2020 Houses Awards: House Alteration and Addition over 200m2
In reworking a 1970s split-level house, the architect has joyously reinterpreted the history of its place and beach shack typology.
2020 Houses Awards: House Alteration and Addition over 200m2
This intriguing alteration and addition to a stately Edwardian reflects new changes to the city and the way we live in it.
2020 Houses Awards: House Alteration and Addition under 200m2
The civic generosity of this house brings domestic life into direct relation with its laneway context.
2020 Houses Awards: Australian House of the Year
The winning project celebrates a simple life and the capacity of modest architecture to impact significantly on the way we live.
2020 Houses Awards: New House Over 200m2
The winning home wears the uniform of its Federation-era neighbourhood with polite grace but hides its true radical heart.