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Hidden Garden House / Sam Crawford Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Our client’s brief was to alter their house to provide them with light and warm spaces, passively heated and cooled. They wanted quality over quantity, improved functionality, and low maintenance. The original house was built in the 1980s and then extended in the late 1990s. It required radical surgery. The ground floor was damp, dark, and cold, and the upper floor was hot and leaky.

Mosman Minka House / Downie North Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Mosman, Australia. Situated in coastal suburban Sydney, Mosman Minka respects the area’s conservative built heritage but subverts its traditions by embracing Japanese sensibilities. Retaining the original frontage, the rear spaces are enveloped by an oversized zinc canopy, whose vaulted forms lend spaciousness to an otherwise highly efficient footprint. With a focus on place-making, proportions, materiality, and detailing drawn from the family’s collective memories. The design embraces family life’s dichotomies: it is at once calm and restful (an important counterpoint to hectic family life), whilst equally playful and punctuated by numerous moments of delight.

Marramarra Shack / Leopold Banchini Architects

Clara Ott — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000

In 1788 Captain Cook and his fleet entered the delta of the Hawkesbury and the sheltered bay of Sydney. At the entrance of the Dyirabun (Hawkesbury) River, he was first welcomed by the Darug People who had been living on these banks since the beginning of times. Not long after, the British colonized the Australian territory, building a network of roads and electrical lines across the vast country. The electrical posts were made of some of the finest local hardwoods. Later on, these posts were slowly replaced by steel posts.

Bundeena House / Tribe Studio Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 23:00:00 +0000

Tribe Studio Architects has unveiled their latest residential project, a single-story holiday house in the beachside hamlet of Bundeena, located south of Sydney in the Royal National Park. The design for the home doubles a replicable architectural prototype for a sustainable holiday home that is authentic to the Australian aesthetic, whilst also being cost-effective, environmentally aware and supportive of local trades. Developed as a weekender, the pared-back timber courtyard home nods to the modest fisher-cottages prevalent in the area and celebrates its native garden setting. It is an understated economical achievement with high levels of architectural and environmental integrity.

Annandale Terrace / Sam Crawford Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 21:00:00 +0000

This renovation is the latest evolution of a Sydney terrace house which has been the family home of our client since childhood. Sam Crawford Architects is the second architect to work on this house, building upon a 2012 renovation that connected the rear of the terrace to the garden and introduced strategic light-wells.

Woodcroft Neighbourhood Centre / Carter Williamson Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

After the former Community Centre was deliberately burnt down in 2015, the newly created City Architect’s Office took the opportunity to build a centre exemplifying its vision for community centres as places of lifelong learning, well-being, recreation and culture. Ambitions for the centre included an increased capacity and flexibility of spaces and for its architecture to galvanise civic pride. The brief to Carter Williamson called for:

Cooks River House / studioplusthree

Paula Pintos — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 19:00:00 +0000

Cooks River House establishes a secluded family home within a lush natural landscape in Sydney’s inner west. A single-storey bungalow with an unsympathetic later addition previously occupied this sloping site, facing south along the Cooks River. The overgrown site had a wild, natural feel which our clients saw as an adventure-filled place to raise their young family.

Lacuna House / Bijl Architecture

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 18:00:00 +0000

The Lacuna House embraces a typical suburban brief – to create a haven away from a busy work-life and a safe home in which to raise children and live life. In doing so, the design realizes these common aspirations with a subtle overlaying of functional and aesthetic requirements to create new spaces, flows, and internal views while combatting the negative aspects of the site’s context. By focusing on the lacuna of the site – the unfilled spaces or gaps – the design reconciles built form with the landscape, and places a new pool as the connecting element that brings the site together. Located on Sydney’s leafy north shore, poor local planning decisions had overtime allowed two neighboring properties to compromise the setting for the inter-war dwelling.

3x2≠3+3 House / panovscott

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 19:00:00 +0000

This project is the renovation of a house, one of two semi-detached single-story dwellings located in Sydney’s densely inhabited inner west. Broadly speaking it is about the making of a new whole by retention of one half of a structure and reconfiguration of the other. Approach to the house remains via the small formal front garden, up three generous steps, and onto a narrow porch. A centrally placed casement window and offset front door punctuate the painted brick elevation. Within, the front rooms have been retained with minimal intervention allowing a continued manner of a dwelling.

Bouwman House / Sam Crawford Architects

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:00:00 +0000

This house is an alterations and additions to a 1914 Federation style house in the historic suburb of Haberfield, just five kilometres west of Sydney’s central business district. Parts of a problematic 1990s addition have been removed and spacious and contemporary living spaces added: open plan kitchen, living & dining room, entertainment room and attic conversion.

Platform House / studioplusthree

Rayen Sagredo — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Sydney-based architecture practice studioplusthree has created a new living platform bringing light, air and space to a highly constrained triangular site in Sydney’s east. In an urban response to the site’s limitations of light and open space, living areas are elevated up to the tree canopy - offering lush panoramas, abundant light and a sense of horizon.

House Au Yeung / Tribe Studio Architects

Sabrina Leiva — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:00:00 +0000

A modest, but well constructed, 1930s bungalow in a leafy Sydney suburban area is adapted for the times by Tribe Studio with a garden pavilion and a series of decorative flourishes, reducing its footprint and accommodating the new program in an extended gable roof form.

Kurnell House / DunnHillam Architecture + Urban Design

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:00:00 +0000

This house is an exemplary example of what we think should be ‘the norm’. It is designed to be ‘appropriate’ : the right size for its purpose, built as far as possible with sustainable materials, energy efficient, flexible in terms of space, and built for the long term.

Escu House / Bijl Architecture

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:00:00 +0000

Escu House in Sydney’s Belrose presents an open, inviting and contemporary architecture that is intelligent yet simple, and confident yet subtle. Through a program of spatial rearrangement and a layering of joinery and finished elements, Bijl Architecture has completely transformed this 1960s light-coloured brick dwelling into a light-filled, highly functional home that is also warm and welcoming.

House Chapple / Tribe Studio Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 01:00:00 +0000

House Maher / Tribe Studio

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

House Maher is a series of diagrammatic house-sections within a diagrammatic house extrude.

House Boone Murray / Tribe Studio Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000

This 1920s bungalow in Sydney’s East has been updated to suit a young family. A poor 1970s rear yard addition was carefully removed from the original house and historic details preserved. A new addition to the rear has a contemporary architectural and interior language inspired by the old.

House Kalafatas Challita / Tribe Studio Architects

Kritiana Ross — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000