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Hotham House / Austin Maynard Architects

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Embedded within lush foliage on an established suburban street just off the National Circuit, with a direct view of the flag over Parliament House, Hotham seeks to slow down and consider Canberra's past, present, and future built environment. Working to demonstrate the importance of responding to, rather than erasing the cultural and architectural fabric of Australia's Capital city - a city which 'embodies the Australian spirit and symbolises Australian life and achievement.'

Clarke House / Austin Maynard Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Clarke is the renovation and extension of a single-storey weatherboard cottage in Northcote, once void of light, definition, separation, and all hope of personal space.

Parkside Home / Austin Maynard Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:00:00 +0000

Parkside is an environmentally adaptable and deeply sustainable home intended for aging-in-place. This compact two-storey house realises the owner's longstanding retirement plan; to downsize into their own backyard.

ParkLife Apartment Building / Austin Maynard Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000

ParkLife is a high-performing, beautifully designed, community-focused apartment building located in Brunswick, in Melbourne's inner north. Designed to build community and prioritize social, economic and environmental sustainability, ParkLife has achieved an incredible 9-star energy rating.

Lang 靚 House / Austin Maynard Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Lang 靚 is a new, double-storey house in South Yarra that reflects the owner's vision for “a wellness-enhancing home that is architectural and inspirational.” The result of exploring “a different sort of mindset,” the design deliberately avoids hallways and corridors and instead maximizes the potential for open space, natural light, and greenery on a relatively small inner-city-sized block.

Helvetia House / Austin Maynard Architects

Paula Pintos — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Helvetia is the alteration and renovation of a double-storey Victorian terrace in Fitzroy, Melbourne. The home had been separated in the 1960s to operate as a boarding house and reconfigured again in the 1980s into two apartments. Muddled, confused, dark, and in a sad state of disrepair, the challenge was to resurrect Helvetia.

Slate House / Austin Maynard Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 12 May 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Slate House is a new three-level, high-performing, high-end apartment building of 14 spacious homes, in the bayside suburb of Brighton in Melbourne. Responding to the developer's brief to produce beautiful, thoughtful, refined, and efficient homes, we focused on aesthetics, context, and sustainability. Achieving an outstanding NatHERS rating of 8.2 stars, Slate House is Brighton’s first fossil-fuel-free multi-residential apartment building.

Terrace House / Austin Maynard Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Terrace House is the result of past Austin Maynard Architect’s clients, staff and allies putting their own money at risk to create community-focused homes that are equitable, ethical, cost-effective, robust and resilient in the face of the growing climate crisis. Terrace House takes a revolutionary approach to housing and delivers well designed, quality homes that are environmentally, socially and financially sustainable.

Picket House / Austin Maynard Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 03:00:00 +0000

Picket House is a two-storey addition to a freestanding Edwardian timber house, on a corner block, at the top of a hill in Northcote. The old part of the house has been re-roofed and internally upgraded and now forms the sleeping quarters. The new addition has a kitchen, dining, and living, with a pantry, powder room, and laundry along the southern side. The living area is double-height to maximize light and volume. The first floor has a multi-functional open space and access to an external deck.

Terracotta House / Austin Maynard Architects

Hana Abdel — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Living in bustling, vibrant, bohemian Fitzroy, our client asked us to help her with a tree-change, without changing postcode. Her priority was to have a big veggie garden and a farm house, while remaining in the city. With our help, she found an inner suburban cottage with a huge backyard in a community-spirited enclave. We built a new home for her at the rear of the block and renovated the original house at the front for her son’s family to live in. Between the two cottages there is a large productive garden and a communal pavilion. With the subtle mix of shared and private spaces, this is a multi-generational home like no other.

RaeRae House / Austin Maynard Architects

Paula Pintos — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Unconventional but thoroughly logical. Like a German sports car, the beauty of RaeRae’s exterior belies the highly tuned rationalism that generated it. Responsive, contextual, and strategic, this is a functional home with nuanced moments of surprise and discovery.

Garden House / Austin Maynard Architects

Paula Pintos — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 01:00:00 +0000

The average Australian house uses 19kwh of energy per day. Garden House produces 100kwh per day and has a 26kwh Tesla battery. A high-performing, hi tech, inner-city oasis, Garden House illustrates the future of sustainable energy - electrified homes, powered by the sun, powering our shared energy grid.

Union House / Austin Maynard Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0000

We see you. Union House is hiding in plain sight. “We can all see you” the neighbourhood says, as Union spills over its original facade. This is not a quiet and unassuming building, cowering in the back yard. This is an intervention that directly layers one epoch on top of another. The Dutch gable of the original home is an identical copy of its eastern neighbour. From there the similarity abruptly ends. Union is an entirely new house, which has retained, restored and incorporated the beloved original cottage facade, despite no heritage overlays or council requirement. Memory is important and heritage can be lots of fun. Demolishing a building and erasing history is far too easy. Union House is a place of memory, a home the family had lived in for years. Whilst it was a quaint cottage with a lovely facade, there was no stipulation to keep or protect it. Regardless, both the owners and ourselves wanted to retain a piece of the home’s former life.

Brickface House / Austin Maynard Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Sat, 09 May 2020 17:00:00 +0000

Brickface is a compact building situated at the rear of an existing house in Richmond, Melbourne. It consists of a garage at ground level, studio living/guest bedroom at first floor, and a roof deck. A new pool and entertaining deck extends the home’s entertaining area, while the roof terrace becomes the missing productive garden. The main living area of the existing house faces south and opens up onto the new terrace and pool. The backdrop to this view is the rising high wall of Brickface.

Newry House / Austin Maynard Architects

Paula Pintos — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 21:00:00 +0000

The owners of Newry, a family of four, wanted to renovate their single-fronted terrace home in inner-city Melbourne, on a tight budget. Though the house had already been renovated in the 90s, the two storey addition at the back failed to address the primary issue, a lack of light. The owners asked Austin Maynard Architects to reconfigure their living zone to allow in sunlight and make better use of their limited space.

Tower House / Austin Maynard Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 15:00:00 +0000

S+P and their 8 year old twin sons asked for a home “for community, art and nature to come together”. We designed them a village.

Grant House / Austin Maynard Architects

Andreas Luco — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:00:00 +0000

Grant House is the alteration and addition to a dark and narrow single-storey terrace in North Fitzroy. The old part of the house has been respectfully maintained and updated and a new extension has been sleeved between original boundary walls. The new extension comprises kitchen/living/dining (and secret cellar), with parent’s retreat upstairs. Utilising the side laneway, the main entry is now in the centre of the house. A large and imposing galvanised steel door opens onto a light-flooded courtyard that separates the old house from the new addition.

St. Andrews Beach House / Austin Maynard Architects

Paula Pintos — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 03:00:00 +0000

Less than five meters in radius, St Andrews Beach House is an object in the landscape. A Euclidean form set amongst the rough and sandy terrain it provides - in modest form - everything you would need and want in a beach shack.