Houses, October 2023
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Houses 154 preview
Introduction to Houses 154.
Projects
Bungalow by Other Architects
A “make-do and mend” approach renews a bungalow in the Southern Highlands, fine-tuning the home to provide greater independence for a family of four.
Quarry Box by MCK Architects
Changing constraint to opportunity, the design of this new home turns a Sydney site edged with a jagged sandstone face into a private setting well suited to family life.
Armadale House by Neeson Murcutt Neille
This resourceful alteration forgoes the temptation to build anew, instead recalibrating a Victorian home and its 1990s addition to suit contemporary family life.
That Old Chestnut by Figr
Taking complex site conditions in its stride, this compact worker’s cottage addition channels the suburb’s industrial character while crafting a surprisingly secluded urban sanctuary.
Profile
Five houses of March Studio
This multidisciplinary studio’s material ingenuity and love for making crystallizes in residential designs that are sometimes subversive, often joyful and always individual.
Revisited
Revisited: Beach House, Wye River by Col Bandy
Reminiscent of a treehouse, this 1992 beach house, designed in 1992 by Col Bandy, employed efficient construction to minimize its impact on the site. Today, it is evocative of the simple pleasures of a seaside weekender.
Postscript
Kabina Tiny Home by Facundo Ochoa
This deceptively simple A-frame cabin deploys flat-pack fabrication and DIY assembly to respond to a burgeoning global mobility and the movement toward a circular economy.
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Balmain House by Saha
An elegant pavilion addition to a Sydney cottage resolves a sloping site and incites its occupants to find delight in inhabiting the building’s edges.
River Hearth House by Arcke
Rebuffing the temptation of the singular view, this new house evokes memories of the site’s past occupation to craft a place for living and making on the Brisbane River.
One to watch: Joshua Duncan Architect
Joshua Duncan’s refreshingly simple architecture deploys utilitarian materials and direct construction logic to produce uncomplicated, hard-wearing and flexible homes that inspire informal living.
Y3 Garden by Dan Young Landscape Architect with Donovan Hill
This artfully composed outdoor room reconsiders the central courtyard of a seminal Queensland home, providing a dog-proof filter between the house and the street.
Tanoa by Vittino Ashe
Delicate and inventive accretions to a Perth duplex encourage flexible occupation and sustain a multigenerational family that seeks both refuge and connection.
Monty Sibbel by Nuud Studio
A deft revival of a 1970s project home respects the scale and materiality of the original house, impelled by Sibbel Builders’ underlying ethos of sensitive homes that do more with less.
The Redoutable by Virginia Kerridge Architect
This meticulous adaptation of a Georgian terrace in a tightly protected heritage precinct has seen layers removed, revealed and revived in a fine composition of old and new.
First House: Honeydew by Sparks Architects
In the design of their own home on the Sunshine Coast, Dan and Margo Sparks relished the chance to investigate sustainable design and construction. Dan looks back on the lessons they learnt about efficient, small-scale living.
Casuarina Garden by Prandium Studio with Vokes and Peters
The garden at a new house on the Tweed coast is a subtropical romance, with house and outdoor room lying in delicate concert.
James Garden Pavilion by UME Architecture
Set in the subtropical verdure of Brisbane’s New Farm, this outdoor room is an ornamental frame of blockwork and foliage that contributes to an elevated, extroverted domestic life.
Fresh Finds: product highlights from Houses 154
Add material warmth, delicate texture and expressive personality to your home with this round-up of new design pieces.
Here comes the sun: striking outdoor features for summer
A roundup of outdoor furniture and decor ideas for summer, as featured in Houses issue 154.