Elsternwick House / Clare Cousins Architects
Elsternwick House provides a growing family with more space and greater amenity, while preserving and celebrating the heritage of their original home.
Clare Cousins Architects is a Melbourne-based architecture and interior design practice founded in 2005 by Clare Cousins.
Clare Cousins Architects is based in North Melbourne on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation. Engaged in projects large and small, our work encompasses housing, workplace, and cultural projects. Our studio is currently delivering important housing typologies including specialist disability housing and social housing in Melbourne and regional Victoria.
We design architecture to fundamentally enrich how we live. Our spaces listen to place, people, and purpose, and respond quietly with both function and delight. Our process is considered and conversational, a product of close collaboration between client, architect, and contractor.
Each project is an opportunity to explore what we value; a nuanced sense of place, embedded with a responsibility to our environment. Our projects endure and evolve, responsive to the individual or community they serve.
LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia
LEARN MORE: clarecousins.com.au
Elsternwick House provides a growing family with more space and greater amenity, while preserving and celebrating the heritage of their original home.
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