Issue 158 June 2024

Houses

Be inspired by the best contemporary residential architecture and design.

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Contributors
Martin Musiatowicz is an architect and director of Kart Projects. He has taught at a number of architecture and design schools, and contributed to various books and publications, including A+T magazine and Art and Australia. Kath Dolan is a freelance
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Fresh Finds
Find more residential products: selector.com and productnews.com.au The Horizonte bed exhibits the formal simplicity and detailed polish that define the work of Marcio Kogan of Studio MK27. Designed for Italian furniture brand Minotti’s 75th year,
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Red Hill House And Studio By Zuzana And Nicholas
There is a certain pleasure in spotting an incidence of twinning – typically when two friends happen to be wearing clothes of similar colours and styling. The game lies in picking the similarities at the same time as the differences. Zuzana and Nicho
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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 Ellison Production Goran Rupena Design Janine Wurfel j
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James Street By Taylor And Hinds Architects
Launceston has one of the most intact colonial and early Victorian cityscapes in Australia. Along the streets leading out of the city to the south – George, St John, Charles and their cross streets and small side streets – cottages and houses from th
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Smith House By Fowler And Ward
A brindle whippet greets me at the door, all dainty limbs and shining eyes. Behind her, the door’s pane of rippling glass falls somewhere between olive green and a goldy brown. Beneath her paws, tessellated tiles in brown and white step out beneath a
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Bookshelf
01 Ornament Is Not a Crime: Contemporary interiors with a postmodern twist by Rebecca Gross (Thames and Hudson Australia, 2023) In Ornament Is Not a Crime, the design mantra “less is more” is rebuffed and replaced by a delightful assortment of bol
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Not All Architecture
Not All Architecture – abbreviated as NAA Studio – was founded in 2019 by architect Phoebe Clarke and builder/designer Timothy Stelzer on the surf coast of southern Victoria. This unique name – which goes against the grain of more common last-name fi
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Made To Last
Find more residential products: selector.com and productnews.com.au Manufactured from de-barked pine from well-managed forests, oriented strand board panels are a strong and sustainable product for walls and cabinetry. Most of the energy used in pr
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Rethink The Concept Of Space With REVEGO Pocket Systems
Doing more with less is a challenge that designers and architects face more now than ever before. As high-density housing becomes a growing trend across Australia, achieving flexibility in design and creating multifunctional spaces is a necessity. Bl
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Bob’s Bungalow By Blair Smith Architecture
Arriving in Strathmore, in Melbourne’s north, to visit Bob’s Bungalow by Blair Smith Architecture, I felt a quiet, neighbourly familiarity. The generous footpaths, streets canopied by large old trees, and flowering front gardens were reminiscent of a
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South Perth House By Simon Pendal Architect
It was one of those Perth days. A tent of blue sky, an easterly still blowing. We were still in Bunuru, the second summer of the Nyoongar six-season calendar, and everyone was hoping for signs of autumn. As I drove down the street I looked for South
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Snelling Studio FURNITURE AND LIGHTING DESIGNER
Bec Snelling is passionate about ideas. She is equally passionate about centring her lighting and furniture company, Snelling Studio, around her fine arts practice. Four years ago, Snelling was part of Douglas and Bec, a successful design company she
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Carlyle Drive House By Me
It was not the first time I had encountered a project by Matthew Eagle and his practice ME for clients Libby and Josh Brady. This new renovation in the southern Gold Coast suburb of Currumbin followed a new build on the edge of the nearby Currumbin V
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Riverview by Matt Elkan Architect (now Incidental Architecture) FIRST HOUSE
For me, Riverview was a series of at least four happy accidents that led to the launch of an embryonic architectural business in 2006. Looking back, it’s hard to believe that all the pieces fell into place the way they did. If even one of the pieces
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Six Ways House By Kennedy Nolan
The inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North has a rich and largely intact nineteenth-century built heritage characterised by narrow terrace houses, minimal setbacks and small backyards. Council planners in such areas often have reverence for the hist
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Maddison Apartment By Studio Johnston
Some projects bring great challenges and, with them, the potential for great rewards. Stefania Reynolds – head of interiors and project director at Studio Johnston – faced the most demanding of clients in the design of Maddison Apartment in Sydney’s
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Peta’s House By Mt Eyk
Conversations about Peta’s House started, unconventionally, over the counter at one of Fremantle’s popular cafes. Peta owned The Cool Room and architects Emily Van Eyk and Jessica Mountain were two of her regular customers. They discussed design and
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Myers Ellyett Architecture and Interior Design IN PROFILE
Etched into the minds of many who grew up in Australia are memories of summer days spent playing backyard cricket or sprawled on the cool green lawn, watching the clouds. Ours is a uniquely outdoor lifestyle, and our houses reflect this with spaces t
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Studio Uno STUDIO
For the past eight years, Naomi and her now-adult son and daughter have each sought regular respite in a simple studio located at the rear of their Brunswick terrace. Naomi is an artist and primary caregiver for a daughter whose high support needs me
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Stornoway by Laurie Virr REVISITED
We Australians are very conservative as a nation when it comes to houses ... most folk do not realize what an effect on their lives a good house can have. – Laurie Virr, April 2003 (in conversation with the homeowner). Just outside Canberra lies t

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