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North Freo House / Robeson Architects

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Choosing to remain in this coveted pocket of North Fremantle, our clients sought to expand rather than relocate – a challenge made intricate owing to the site's strict heritage controls. The brief called for additional floor space, including a new master bedroom suite and a versatile space to serve as either a study or second living area. Drawing on the client's distinct Mediterranean sensibility, our role was to translate this relaxed approach to contemporary living with the home's existing heritage character.

Vitality House + Works / iredale pedersen hook architects

Valeria Silva — Wed, 14 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Vitality House + Works is a collection of members-only spaces that provide a unique combination of facilities and services to support one's life and work and encourage the connection with a community of like-minded individuals.

Treehouse / Suzanne Hunt Architect

Hana Abdel — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 18:00:00 +0000

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the aboriginal lands that we work and play, the Wadandi people of the Noongar Nation their elders, past, present, and emerging. We acknowledge that aboriginal sovereignty was never ceded. Many people dream of having a weekend that will one-day ‘morph’ into a permanent home. For this couple, who had been living in Sydney for over a decade before returning to Perth, the idea was to have a semi-permanent home in the country that would complement their cottage in the city. So, when this steep, tree-filled Margaret River bush block – a three-hour drive south of Perth – became available, it was an opportunity too good to refuse.

Hyde Park House / Robeson Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Situated on a busy street, the Hyde Park House seeks to maximize views of both the leafy Hyde Park across the road and the city skyline, whilst maintaining the privacy of the family. The challenge was to design a home that was not trying to replicate a character home but was contemporary to suit the needs of the family and fit in with its streetscape, not imposing on it given it would be two-story and the neighbors were single story.

95 Evans Street Residential Building / MJA Studio

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Wed, 11 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000

95 Evans St is the first multi-residential development to be completed within a recently up-zoned, transit-oriented precinct, to meet Perth’s infill residential targets. As a result, the project bore much responsibility to set a positive precedent for all future development in the predominantly single residential surrounding area. The site is particularly sensitive as it is situated directly at the transition between two zones - the R15 zone to the east (single, detached residential) and the more intensive R100 zone to the west. With such an abrupt transition burdened upon the site, a well-considered response was essential. It was the intent of both the client and design team to rise to this challenge and respond to these unique aspects of the site responsibly and with as much sensitivity as possible.

Klopper Residence / Klopper & Davis Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 01:00:00 +0000

Klopper residence is a loving homage to the mid-century modernist architecture of Klopper and Davis Architects. Deeply informed by its context and its client, the team have created a beachside home that is fun, warm, textural and responds to contemporary family rhythms and a love of entertaining with ease.

East Fremantle House / Nic Brunsdon

Hana Abdel — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:00:00 +0000

The East Fremantle House is a contextually responsive addition to a heritagecottage in suburban Perth. The most important part of this house is the space that is not built - speci{cally, alarge northern void - a space for sun, light, sky, sound, and breeze to inhabit. Thehouse then traces this edge, creating rooms with immediate connection to theseelemental conditions.

The New Cool in Parking Garage Design

Megan Schires — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 04:30:00 +0000

Parking garages present an aesthetic challenge to even the most creative design minds. Their vast scale and monotonous appearance are necessitated by function, but result in the difficulty of making the garages visually interesting instead of simply overbearing. Cladding a parking garage in a unique material can add visual interest and texture to achieve a more human connection. However, this in turn creates concerns about still bringing light and air into the garage.

Mosman Park House / Robeson Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 23:00:00 +0000

The brief. A home for a young family and grandmother (in the future). All areas of the home had to be wheelchair accessible, complying with the gold standard of the 'Liveable Housing Design Guidelines' which calls for wider hallways, doorways, and circulation space generally. This also meant the design needed to address the slope in the site, through ramps and graded paths to enable a person to transverse from front boundary to rear boundary without going up or down a step. (Note: this also makes for an easy move-in day for the furniture movers!)

King George House / Robeson Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 23:00:00 +0000

This Grade-A State heritage listed workers cottage on the corner of George and King Streets, East Fremantle, provided an exciting base to create a modern family home. The concept was to respect and highlight the existing cottage by distancing the bulk of the extension to the ROW, linking the two with an internal courtyard. With a mixed-use zoning, the home is designed with a self-contained office and bedroom which can be leased in future should the owner decide to do so. The highly polished introduced finishes of “Nero Marquina” marble, white oxide concrete flooring and glossed black timber lend a dramatic contrast to the raw and matte finishes of the cottage. An intentional contrast that references the original materials with an opposing finish. The owners intend to use the nearby parks and cafes as extensions of their home, hence gardens are minimal and low maintenance.

Vodka Palace House / Marcus Browne architect

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:00:00 +0000

Hidden in an affluent coastal suburb is 'Vodka Palace’ a luxurious concrete cave, tempered with natural timber finishes and primed for premium culinary, audio and visual pleasure. It is the result of a very strong collaborative process between client, architect, builder, sub-consultants, sub-contractors, and suppliers. The client is a close friend and a unique paradoxical individual. One part reclusive and one part party queen she wanted the seclusion and ethereal quality of a cave to escape into that satisfied all her needs without having to really go anywhere else, yet also at a moments notice she wanted to be able to invite the world in and entertain close friends and family in style.

Triangle House / Robeson Architects

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 31 May 2019 19:00:00 +0000

Mount Lawley House is the architects own home, built on a 180m2 triangular lot. This challenging site also has the busy Vincent Street to its north and a 1.5m sewer easement to the rear boundary. Regardless, this prime location is wedged between Hyde Park and bustling Beaufort Street, and just a few kilometers from Perth. The design represents the client/architect’s belief in function over convention and that small, odd parcels of land can be successfully and affordably developed into interesting and spacious buildings.

Falcon Beach House / iredale pedersen hook architects

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 01 May 2017 20:00:00 +0000

The Falcon House challenges the inappropriate, contemporary approach of destroying the native landscape and topography. The upper level hovers gently as a white object, the lower level is a black shadow, in the middle is a thin zone of grey that reminds us that nothing is ever ‘black or white’.

Burt St / Keen Architecture

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:00:00 +0000

The heritage listed 1904 house had undergone numerous renovations over the years. Our clients, wanted to upgrade the existing house, add in a secondary garage, add a small studio space and upgrade the landscaping with a reasonable but modest budget. We gave them a sketch design that met their brief which they were happy with but in seeing the true potential of the site we went out on a limb and gave them another option demonstrating the full potential of the site and opening their eyes to a new way of living. Not really having greatly thought of the alternates or possibilities, our clients were blow away by the proposal and it snowballed from there. We basically reworked the whole house and reoriented the spaces to accommodate a growing family and a more modern lifestyle that was specifically tailored to our clients. The final budget ended up significantly higher but our clients could see the real value of what we were proposing and were happy to revisit and increase the budget. I truly believe it’s an architects job to go above and beyond to help our clients realise the true value and potential of their site. Often clients are unaware of the possibilities or, might need a little nudge to help them to reconsider any preconceptions they might have. At the end of the day, clients engage us for our opinions and experience but a house should first and foremost be for our clients, not our egos. These were dream clients too, nearly everything we threw at them (within reason) they took on board. They gave us their absolute trust which was somewhat daunting but we had absolute respect for, as did the builder and all the trades on site. Ultimately I believe their trust, backing and passion in all the people behind the project created such an amazing and unique home that we are all so proud to have been involved in.

SODA Apartments / Gresley Abas Architects

Valentina Villa — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:00:00 +0000

The SODA Apartments represent the outcome of an ideal relationship between Architect, Builder and Developer. A shared enlightened attitude towards the delivery of inner-city dwellings within an existing heritage building shell, SODA Apartments culminates in a 13-unit apartment building over 4 storeys. 85% of the dwellings have a northerly orientation and all dwellings have cross-ventilation.

Gresley Monk Residence / Gresley Abas Architects + Justine Monk Design

Sabrina Leiva — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 19:00:00 +0000

In the 1950s Bedford was a new subdivision of small, repeated plan houses on the outskirts of a small Perth City. By the 2010’s, urban growth, infill and improved public transport had drawn this area closer to the inner suburban belt and improved the amenity and appeal of the area. Attracted by the opportunities to design an affordable adaptation of an outdated suburban housing model, 15 minutes from the city centre, the architect owners embarked on a subdivision and design process.

Claremont Residence / Keen Architecture

Daniela Cardenas — Wed, 25 May 2016 17:00:00 +0000

Our client a house to entertain friends and family whilst having the ability ‘lock and leave’ the house with his busy lifestyle. In terms of an investment, he also wanted to maximise the site yield and take full advantage of potential views.

Hillam Office / Hillam Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:00:00 +0000

Working to the philosophy of creating a dynamic, raw interior, Hillam’s final build resulted in a multi-layered, textured environment. Housing 40 people, the flexible workplace has a series of openable spaces which extend into a large open area, combined with open plan sit-to-stand workstations promoting an Activity Based Workplace.