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Korinda House / Bent Architecture

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Set gently across six acres of sloping bushland on Melbourne's fringe, Korinda House is a home of quiet resilience and deep connection — shaped not only by the contours of the land, but by the personalities, rhythms and rituals of the family who live within it.

Maree House / Circle Studio Architects

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Maree House is a home for a local doctor and her family in Yarraville. The goal was to create characterful spaces with different zones and atmospheres, whilst maintaining flow. The client bought the long block because of its potential to accommodate a lap pool. Being an avid swimmer, it was important for the pool to be functionally accessible for daily swims, as well as a visual feature. An important part of the brief was for each room to have large windows with a garden view. Backyard, courtyards, and balconies ensure there is always a connection outside.

Eaglemont House / Bent Architecture

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Eaglemont House explores the relationship between a home, its environment, and its inhabitants. The project reimagines a single-storey Edwardian house that had previously been compromised by a poorly conceived extension. This outdated addition was dark, south-facing, and featured an uninviting, damp outdoor entertaining space due to its poor orientation. Recognising the site's potential and the original dwelling's charm, the design replaces the extension with a new, light-filled addition that fosters a healthier, more connected living environment, while embracing natural light and the surrounding landscape.

House of Fortune / Dean Dyson Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Paying homage to Collingwood's industrial past, House of Fortune by Dean Dyson Architects, restores heritage while embracing innovation and social connection. Stepping into Dean Dyson's studio, the clients described wistful reminiscing of Collingwood's industrial past and shared childhood memories of neighbourly engagement and social connection. These stories inspired Dyson, as lead architect, to weave cherished memories into the very soul of the home. Stepping beyond functionality, the design incorporated "nostalgic feelings" through layout and material choices. The brief to Dean Dyson Architects centred upon values of family connection and adaptation.

Life Cycle House / Steffen Welsch Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000

'Life Cycle' is a rigorous passive solar design on a small footprint. Our ethos of "building as background" guides layout, detailed planning, and articulation. This home is functional and unassuming, it resonates with approachability and warmth drawn from utilizing natural elements and materials.

Gruyere Farmhouse / Rachcoff Vella Architecture

Hana Abdel — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:00:00 +0000

At the pinnacle of a scenic hill in Victoria's Yarra Valley stands our recently completed Gruyere farmhouse. This five-year journey, from conception to realization, stands as a testament to our dedicated team of architects, documenters, consultants, builders, and, most importantly, our clients. Successfully navigating challenging planning constraints, a COVID pandemic, and extreme weather conditions demanded resilience and a cohesive team sharing common values and principles.

Hawthorn Hood House / BENT Architecture

Hana Abdel — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The Hawthorn Hood clients (a couple of professionals with primary school-aged twins) approached our studio to design a renovation extension for a house that they occupied in a neighboring suburb. It became apparent, through early investigations, that the resultant design would likely be heavily compromised due to a number of inherent limitations in the house and site, the most significant being the solar orientation of the allotment.

Escher House / Inbetween Architecture

Hana Abdel — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Escher House is a renovation and addition to a 1930s interwar cottage in Canterbury’s heritage Hassett Estate. The design retains two existing bedrooms and the formal living and dining at the front of the home. The extension accommodates a master bedroom suite, kitchen/meals, bathroom, laundry, and study/home office.

South Terrace House / Sanders & King + Chan Architecture

Hana Abdel — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Located on a long narrow site in Clifton Hill, this project expands on an already grand Victorian terrace, responding to the slope of the site by incorporating a series of gentle internal and external level changes in the new extension.

BENT Annexe II House / Bent Architecture

Hana Abdel — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Imagine if your home could feel like living in a garden pavilion. At BENT Annexe II, it does! By retaining the character-rich front section of the home and creating a new, light-filled addition to the rear, this family of four plus Pippa the groodle are surrounded by lush greenery and can effortlessly utilize their backyard. As is the case with many period homes, the existing house was charming with high ceilings and ornate details. As is also the case with many period homes, the living areas felt disconnected from the backyard due to a series of rooms, such as the kitchen, storage rooms, and a toilet which were tacked onto the back in a lean-to. We resisted the temptation to knock down the lean-to and add a new open-plan living area stretching from boundary to boundary to the back and opening onto the garden for two key reasons.

Pitch House / FMD Architects

Hana Abdel — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 19:00:00 +0000

Pitch House extends itself as a series of defined spaces that unfurl to form a generous interior, filled with light from a high-level window above. Partitioned by its neighboring twin, Pitch House reinvigorates what was previously a discontinuous plan, granting the space a new relationship with light, its side courtyard, and backyard. The architecture develops a narrative around the ‘pitch’, a form that extends to its highest point, the humble glow framing the open interior, whilst reflecting the continuous slope of the existing roof.

Hood House / Mihaly Slocombe

Hana Abdel — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hood House is a playful protector that respects the heritage character of Carlton North whilst celebrating purposeful change. It is a luxurious yet compact and hyper-functional home defined by an exploration of contrast: it is ornamental and restrained, subdued and lively, stately and casual, compartmental and open.

Orchard Manufacturing Co. Office / Bent Architecture

Hana Abdel — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Orchard Manufacturing offers a new approach to factory design, one which creates a happy and healthy workplace inspired by nature.

Kitchen Organization: Different Materials for Your Worktop

Giovana Martino — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 04:00:00 +0000

Kitchens as we know them today have functionality as their main feature and for that their space was historically organized from an industrial logic. The development of home appliances and the precise definition of the layout guarantee a functional floor plan and the optimization of work in the kitchen. As part of this layout we find the worktops, horizontal half-height surfaces that have multiple uses and, therefore, many possible configurations.

Beach Slice House / Steffen Welsch Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 02:00:00 +0000

"Beach Slice" is a holiday home an hour's drive from Melbourne, and a five-minute walk to the shore of Western Port Bay. Sitting on a bush block, it is humble and relaxed, designed to holiday. A place to hang your hat, it is also suitable as a place to retire.

Mt Eliza House / Bent Architecture

Hana Abdel — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Australians are living longer and enjoying health and fitness long into their retirement, so isn't it time we created homes to support and enable this growing demographic? One of our passions here at Bent Architecture is designing for ageing in place. With empathetic design strategies, we can enable people to live independently well into their senior years in a home they love and feel comfortable in. As our population ages, designing homes with ageing in place and accessible design principles in mind will mean homes won't have to be retrofitted to help with mobility issues, require a lot of maintenance or feel overwhelming for elderly owners.

Culinary Architecture: 16 Projects that Explore Different Kitchen Layouts

Dima Stouhi — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 04:00:00 +0000

Whether it's by sharing a meal at a restaurant or preparing a home-cooked meal together, food does in fact, bring people together. With that in mind, architects placed kitchens at the heart of homes, giving residents a space to cook, dine, and spend quality time with their families and friends. However, not all homes can fit spacious kitchens, some are too small and others don't have the proper spatial configuration for it. In this interior focus, we will explore how architects and designers opted for different kitchen layouts based on different spatial and user needs.

McCrae Bush House / Chan Architecture

Hana Abdel — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Located on a long and sloping site along the Mornington Peninsula, the McCrae Bush house is a dwelling that was inspired by its unique surrounding context of native bushland and the close proximity of Port Phillip Bay. Located on the highest point of the site towards the rear so as to take advantage of the water and treetop views, the curved driveway approach to the building was carefully considered in the design of the building form which begins with the house appearing to nestle within the bush context then gradually becoming more dramatic and angular as one as one gets closer.