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Architects: Luigi Rosselli Architects
- Area: 900 m²
- Year: 2024
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Photographs:Prue Ruscoe, Piers Haskard
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Manufacturers: Granite Marble Works, Mark Stanford, Savage Design
Text description provided by the architects. For centuries, buildings and towns were built layer upon layer. Churches were built on the foundations of temples, and cathedrals over churches, taller and grander; the crypts of cathedrals were often what remained of the previous church. Today, however, we are more respectful and reverential of those buildings that have survived the ravages of rapid urbanization. We tend to 'heritage list' such buildings to preserve them, and we do not build over or in front of them. That said, additions are often necessary to ensure a historic building's compatibility with our modern lifestyles, and so we seek to disguise these additions, by placing them to the rear, or in the case of this grand home, hiding them below ground level.
