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Architects: OOF!
- Year: 2014
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Photographs:Nic Granleese
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Manufacturers: Big Ass Fans, Kaldewei, Duravit, Fisher & Paykel, Miele, Academy Tiles, Dulux, EC Carpets, Interia, Lysaght, Mondoluce, Sirius, Volker Haug
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Builder: Complete Builders Insight, Anthony Adams
Text description provided by the architects. The Hello House is a two-bedroom Victorian-era home and creative studio (and former shop) in Richmond, Melbourne (VIC), Australia. Most noticeably, the home features a large, white-brick wall featuring the word ‘HELLO’, that offers a conversation with the neighbouring buildings and its residents.
A skin of brick is all it takes to keep a secret and two worlds exist happily side by side with a public face that cheerfully greets the street while giving nothing away about the world behind. Inside, the house adjusts to the needs and moods of its residents – a cosy retreat in winter or an airy pavilion in summer – all secret from the outside world.
Rather than blending in or blanding out of its heritage-ous neighbourhood, Hello House is a slightly loud but friendly new face in the street.
