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Musings
For many of us, as the cooler weather sets in and the days get shorter, the appeal of spending time ensconced at home intensifies. The homes explored in this issue demonstrate the different ways architects and designers create opportunities for respi
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Contributors
Brisbane-based Dirk Yates leads the multidisciplinary studio practice Speculative Architecture, specializing in the design of public buildings and experiences of art. He is currently working on the design of a secondary school, a temple and integrate
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Alexa Kempton Alexa Kempton T: +61 3 8699 1000 houses@archmedia.com.au Katelin Butler Georgia Birks Nicci Dodanwela Jude Ellison Cassie Hansen Josh Harris Goran Rupena Janine Wurfel janine@studiometrik.com Michael Pollard Daniel Hobbs Sarah Maher Jac
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Fresh Finds
At the 2022 Melbourne Design Fair, Adelaide-based designer James Howe unveiled a limited edition version of the Rushcutters Bench. For this piece, the woven Danish cord used to make the seat was carefully measured and dyed to create an alternating pa
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Cascade House By John Ellway Architect
Weeping lilly pillies (Waterhousea floribunda) are attractive evergreen trees indigenous to coastal regions of eastern Australia. The tree is distinctive for its gently drooping leaves, which flow like a textured green waterfall. A weeping lilly pill
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Hood House By Mihaly Slocombe Architects
Hood House, named for the distinctive window shroud at the rear of the home, could easily have been given the moniker Phoenix House. The architects at Mihaly Slocombe had designed, documented and navigated an arduous town planning process for this si
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Always By Kennedy Nolan
Flinders is quite a special place. Certainly picturesque, it is an exclusive locale on the eastern edge of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, sleepy – even a little reclusive – when compared to the more brash rota of towns on the other side of the peni
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Finishing Touches
Find more residential products: selector.com and productnews.com.au Named for the Byron Bay Hinterland that inspired it, the Hinterland Stool finds a contemporary expression for a robust, country aesthetic. Distinctive legs with two profiles support
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Hood House Meet The Owners
Brett Seakins Can you tell me about yourselves and the journey you took to arrive here? Glenda Having lived regionally for a long time, the past 18 years of which was spent running a 500-acre cattle farm in Strathbogie in northern Victoria, we decid
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Furminger
In January 2020, when architect Christopher Furminger established his Brisbane practice, he was oblivious – as we all were – to the upheaval that lay ahead for the world. Yet, despite the pandemic-driven challenges affecting the building industry, hi
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Noosa Heads House By Vokes And Peters
Built during a period of national self-reflection, as Australia marked 200 years since the start of colonization, the existing house on this site in Noosa Heads is representative of popular suburban housing of the 1980s – complete with faux colonial
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O House By Marston Architects
The adaptation of old housing stock is a common challenge presented to residential architects, who are tasked with rectifying the failings of outdated buildings and poorly planned additions. “People keep extending and extending until you get what I c
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Lust for Lifestyle: Modern Adelaide Homes 1950–1965
In 1956, Adelaide’s architectural imagination was flying. Bates Smart McCutcheon’s MLC Building was rising above Victoria Square as the city’s first International Style highrise, and as one of Australia’s first buildings to use full curtain wall cons
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Palmette By Sum
Architecture practice Sum named this project Palmette to represent how the renovation and addition unfurls from small and enclosed to expansive and light. The palmette, a decorative motif of stylized palm leaves, features in the interior of the origi
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Dean Norton
Dean Norton established his eponymous studio with the desire to have freedom in his design work. To have full creative expression and control, to design functional pieces that are artistic statements and stories, and to not be limited by a client bri
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Relatively Useful
Simon Lloyd arrived early one morning at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs to begin setting up Relatively Useful. Met by one of the gardeners, who was raking the path, he realized just how well-suited the museum was to the exh
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Higham Road House By Philip Stejskal Architecture 96 Houses 146 97
At Higham Road House, a two-room weatherboard cottage fronts the street, bright and neat as a pin. To its rear, in deeper shades, sits an extension. Taller than the cottage and visible through a gap between the original house and the boundary, it str
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Sugar Gum House by Rob Kennon Architects
In 1974 my parents saw a tiny, two-line ad in the paper for an Otways farm with an old timber shack that seemed to be built without nails. They were immediately drawn to the rugged coastline and backdrop of rolling hills, so they purchased it and our
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Eastham Street By Muir
It’s a far cry from Fitzroy North to the Palace of Versailles, yet an inspired insight into Louis XIV’s spectacular gardens elevates Eastham Street, a modest alteration and addition by Muir. The French have a way of elevating almost everything with a
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Lobster Bay House by Ian McKay
The story of Lobster Bay House is as much about its architect, Ian McKay, as it is about its client, renowned photojournalist David Moore. The lives of McKay and Moore were intertwined, both professionally and personally: as colleagues, they shared o
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Wowowa Architecture
You might well be familiar with the witty, carefully executed work of Melbourne architecture practice Wowowa Architecture. Led by directors Monique and Scott Woodward, the practice has been growing assuredly since it was founded in 2010 and now encom
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HOUSES Kitchens + Bathrooms
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COVID Retrospect: A Reconsidered Residential Habitat
Mid-March 2020 turned out to be one of those “where were you?” moments. Everyone remembers where they were when the Australian government announced widespread restrictions for the nation after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a p
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Bridge House By Kister Architects
When perusing images of the Bridge House by Kister Architects, the casual observer might be tempted to think that they were looking at photographs of a Very Big House. The reality is somewhat different, but the cause of the misperception is straightf

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