Houses, February 2023
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Muli Muli by DFJ Architects
Small but sufficient, this home on the New South Wales north coast pursues a reductive approach to the holiday house, proposing small-footprint simplicity as the antidote to busy city life.
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House on a Lane by Rob Kennon Architects
Unostentatious but meticulously considered, this Melbourne home is an evolved response to an all-too-familiar brief: juggling heritage constraints and limited space with the demands of family life.
Celebrating 150 issues of Houses
We’ll be celebrating our 150th issue with a party in Sydney on 22 February 2023, hosted by our event partner Kaolin Tiles. The Houses team looks forward to seeing you there!
Bush Studio by Dane Taylor
A guesthouse in the garden of a Wollongong home is a relaxing retreat where guests can study, sleep and soak up the beauty of the site.
Revisited: Beachcomber Mk II by Nino Sydney
Pragmatic, cost-effective and assuredly modern, the Beachcomber by Nino Sydney was one of Lend Lease Homes’ many designs to emerge in the project home boom of the 1960s. Today, the Beachcombers that remain – including this cherished Mk II in the Blue Mountains – are reminders of Nino’s aspiration to make affordable, well-designed homes available to more people.
Hawthorn 1 by Agius Scorpo Architects
The garden fence is reimagined as an inhabitable structure that collects a studio, a shed and a pool into one expressive, ribbon-like form, offering increased amenity and independence for multigenerational living.
First House: Kieron Gait Architects
For Kieron Gait, this modest renovation in the Brisbane suburbs was a ‘spare-time labour of love.’ Completed in 2008 by Kieron and his partner Wei Shun Lee, it was both their own home and the unintentional start to their practice.
Studio: Doshi Levien
For the past 20 years, Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien have combined their complementary skills and knowledge to create design pieces with flair, originality and deeply embedded storytelling.
Hellenic Homecoming by Maria Danos Architecture
Grecian stone, ocean colours and fluted profiles recall faded Athenian glamour in this reworking of a heritage home in Melbourne’s Little Greece precinct, transforming a dark, unremarkable series of rooms into a dreamlike spatial sequence.
Mayfair by Whispering Smith
In suburban Perth , a decisive new house honours the homeowner’s aspirations for monumental structure, using brave formal order to frame opportunities for light, airiness and calm introspection.
One to watch: Lachlan Seegers Architect
Lachlan describes a desire to create calm, harmonious and uplifting environments that respond, very specifically, to site. He does this in response to his own yearning to occupy this kind of space – a setting that compensates for the intensities of life.
Meet the owners of Muli Muli by DFJ Architects
Liam Farlow and Giselle Finnane approached DFJ Architects with a brief for a small but robust beach shack on a coastal site north of Byron Bay. Jenna Reed Burns spoke to the couple about their experience of working with an architect.
Steel House/Stone House by Retallack Thompson
A narrow city site is a complex but rewarding testing ground for two architect owners, who have paired a craggy sandstone terrace with a slender companion building in the design of their own mixed-use, multigenerational home.
In profile: Sibling Architecture
Rich in invention, the singular, socially minded homes of this practice are not only intensely personal to the clients, but also intricately connected to community.
Moonshine by Brit Andresen Architect
On Minjerribah, an architect’s keen knowledge of the island setting distils an immersive experience of nature, inspiring a house that is at once architecturally rigorous and environmentally sensitive.
Casa Mia by Caroline Di Costa Architect and Iredale Pedersen Hook
On a corner site in the Perth suburb of City Beach, a dynamic and intriguing new house is wrapped in a brick mask that simultaneously conceals and reveals, testing ideas about public and private space in the domestic realm.
St Martins Lane by Matt Gibson Architecture and Design with Kestie Lane Studio
On a Melbourne laneway, an ambitious addition has transformed a small, dark terrace into a five-storey family home, offering a prototype for vertical living in the inner-city suburbs.