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Rose Terraces / Luigi Rosselli Architects

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Luigi Rosselli's new "build to rent" homes often feature rammed earth: a slow, sustainable material affordable only for those with the time to build them, deep pockets to cover the costs, or both. Now the Sydney architect is experimenting with another highly sustainable material on a row of four terraces in Bondi Junction with walls that go up "like a Lego kit." Designed as a low-cost version of a terrace, the homes use prefabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT) made from layers of wood stuck together to shrink construction time from "one-and-a-half years [conventional build] to just six months."

Emerald Sound House / Luigi Rosselli Architects

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 02:00:00 +0000

There is a taste of the tropics along the eastern coast of Australia, where small bays tumble down to the waters of the Pacific Ocean. One bay in particular, located only a short distance from the Sydney CBD, is more akin to a narrow and swimmable sound and is characterised by glistening emerald waters and surrounded by a diverse collection of housing arrayed around its steep cliffs of sandstone and lush vegetation like the tiers of an amphitheatre.

Exploring Showroom Interiors: The Art of Displaying Materials, Furniture, and Design Objects

Agustina Iñiguez — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:30:00 +0000

When creating exhibition spaces, the design of the experience, the proposed route, and the transmission of certain perceptions and senses contribute to establishing different bonds and connections between the displayed objects and their visitors. Understanding a showroom as a space designed to creatively and experientially showcase products and services, what design strategies could enhance users’ interior experiences? How does interior design engage in dialogue with exhibition architecture?

Pool House / buck&simple

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Located on the traditional lands of the Eora people, tucked behind a traditional semi, Pool House is a hidden backyard gem in the Eastern Suburbs. A statement in simple function, its robust natural materials make it a focal point for leisure and relaxation.

Casa Figueira / buck&simple

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Named after and centred around the century-old heritage-protected fig tree, Casa Figueira is a home nestled into its surroundings. Quietly secluded at the end of a cul-de-sac in the Sydney harbourside suburb of Rose Bay, the topography of the site eventuates to gun barrel views of the harbour and city beyond.

Hidden Home / Luigi Rosselli Architects

Valeria Silva — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:00:00 +0000

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.

Terra Firma House / Luigi Rosselli Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 06:00:00 +0000

From the Latin for ‘solid ground,’ terra firma was an expression used by mariners to describe their nostalgic yearning for land and a solid foothold. Life at sea is subject to vast ocean currents, shifting tides, and treacherous winds; returning to port, a safe harbor provides a contrasting feeling of stability and permanence.

Earth-Ship House / Luigi Rosselli Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Architecturally, earthships form part of the discipline of adaptive reuse. They embrace a style of architecture developed in the late 20th century, which aims to utilize both natural and upcycled materials to create passive, sustainable, and often off-grid dwellings. Here, with Luigi Rosselli Architects’ Earth-Ship, that concept of adaptive reuse and connection to the environment is extended with the revitalization of an existing home whose original design was akin to that of a drilling platform, hovering above, and entirely disconnected from its craggy and precipitous surroundings.

Soft Serve House / YSG.STUDIO

Hana Abdel — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Concept - Preserving its historical essence as a purpose-built late 19th- century Victorian Georgian corner shop (The Balmain Supply Store), the three-storey sandstone family abode was revived with an adroit telescoping of eras and artistic influences. Furnishings and fixtures subtly reference Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s delicate Art Nouveau flourishes and the quiet restraint of timber framing devices prevalent in traditional Japanese interiors. Within, bold hues and textures harmoniously mingle with whisper-soft sensuality.

Oystercatcher House / MCK Architecture & Interiors

Hana Abdel — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000

For some years a Sydney-based family had enjoyed their holidays in a tiny pre-fabricated house on the beachfront lot but had finally outgrown it. They wanted to improve the accommodation and take better advantage of the opportunities of the location and aspect while retaining a relaxed, simple pattern of inhabiting the site.

Polychrome House / YSG.STUDIO

Hana Abdel — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 19:00:00 +0000

Client Brief - To transform the dysfunctional split two-storey, two-bedroom, two-bathroom dwelling into a three-bedroom and bathroom home with and integrated indoor/outdoor retreat space and larger living area.

Bismarck House / Andrew Burges Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 01:00:00 +0000

The Bismarck House is the younger sibling of a pair of semi-detached dwellings in Bondi. The design uses raw materials and sculpted spaces to integrate house and garden while orchestrating social interactions between the more public areas of the house and the laneway that runs along the semi’s northern boundary.

From Representation to Reality: 19 Projects that Rethink Representation Techniques

Agustina Coulleri — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:30:00 +0000

Graphics, even before language and writing, were the first means of communication and significance for humanity. Drawing is the act of replacing reality with representation, that is, replacing objects with images encoded in each of the graphic representation systems.

Cultiver HQ Showroom / YSG.STUDIO

Hana Abdel — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 19:00:00 +0000

Drawing from the grandeur of Italian villa design and subtle organic antipodean references, a warehouse of modest proportions in St Leonards was transformed into a gestural expression of arched volumes and tactile finishes for Australia’s leading home accessories brand, Cultiver.

Sandcastle / Luigi Rosselli Architect + Raffaello Rosselli Architect

Hana Abdel — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Located at the crest of a steep sand embankment, Sandcastle is built on a block many considered too difficult to build on; a forty-five-degree slope that presented a climb to reach the house even a mountain goat would find challenging. Yet despite this, and the added constraint of a sewer main running through the middle of the site, our young clients were not discouraged when they bravely chose to purchase the site in Sydney’s Point Piper to create their home.

Above Board Living / Luigi Rosselli Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Where the land meets the sea the blue expanse of ocean and sky is a magnet for humanity, the Blue Planet Dwellers; this home, created for a family reaching maturity, with adult children and parents deeply passionate about good design, expressed through their creation and manufacture of accessories for daily life, aimed to remove barriers to that irresistible attraction. They craved the ability to live their lives intimately connected to the nearby Bronte Beach and the Pacific Ocean horizon beyond; to watch the morning sun rise from its depths and be immersed in the conditions of the surf and sea breezes rising from the water.

La Casa Rosa / Luigi Rosselli Architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 21:00:00 +0000

Under the reign of Queen Victoria, the residential architecture of the British colonies was immersed in a nostalgic and late romantic borrowing of gothic architecture in its idealised interpretations of John Ruskin’s essay, The Seven Lamps of Architecture1, where the skill and craft of the builder were more important than the architect’s conceptualisation. Lacework, fretwork, intricate plaster detailing, and elaborate timberwork was the currency of the Victorian colonial home. In a modest way, this home in the Sydney beachside suburb of Bronte possessed many of the traits of that late Victorian style, and when called upon to provide it with a new lease of life, for Luigi it brought to mind a holiday villa of his childhood, located on a hilltop overlooking Lago Maggiore (Italy) and named La Casa Rosa for its washed pink render.

Bondi Bombora  House / Luigi Rosselli

Paula Pintos — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 06:00:00 +0000

A “Bombora” is an indigenous Australian term, possibly with its origin in the ‘Dharuk’ language spoken in the Sydney region, to describe a wave breaking over a shallow reef or sandbank that has been adopted into Australian surf culture.