Dandenong Mountains House

In 2011, we completed this little three-bedroom house for some friends of the family. It is our first Victorian commission. The house has a history of being tinkered with by previous owners, some parts successful and others not so much. Our idea was to really clean it up, take advantage of the spectacular views and […]

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Studio Dror

Dror Benshetrit is one of my favorite US designers. He seems to moves through the different creative disciplines with grace and ease. I spoke with Dror from his studio in New York last year regarding his innovative QuaDror system and how it might be used in Australian architecture. I found him to be an incredibly creative […]

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The Winged House

Richard Goodwin is an architect and artist. I have long admired this little house he designed in Tasmainia completed in 2007.           The  site is very steep, with panoramic views across Bass Strait, the expanse of ocean  separating the island from mainland Australia. It is the southernmost  part of Australia and isubject to […]

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CopperString Project

                Every known and then a project comes out of left field that takes things to new levels. However, with new levels come new challenges. This project came our way as a result of a recommendation from the good people at Retracom. We were contacted in 2011 by […]

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Crossroad House 2

                                  In late 2011 the famous American architect, Peter Eisenman known for his intellectual and theoretical approach to design and teaching presented a lecture to the students and faculty of Sci-arc, Southern California’s prestigious architectural school. The lecture was titled ‘Project or Practice?’ Eisenman made […]

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Stokehouse by Arkhefield

This Brisbane restaurant designed by Arkhefield wraps its distinctive architecture inside via a stacked, curving timber wall that runs through the centre of the space.         With Melbourne’s Stokehouse restaurant practically a St Kilda institution, any little sister offshoot elsewhere would always have to make her own mark or suffer the fate of […]

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The Skylight House

The facade of this house in Balmain, Sydney, overlooking the Parramatta River across to Cockatoo Island, is a mere foil for the architectural drama inside.              For behind its frilly Victorian facade stands a finely considered and refined modern house, stepping up over three and half levels, remarkable for a deeply folded […]

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