About Luigi Rosselli Architects
Luigi Rosselli Architects is an Australian architecture practice with a humanist approach and a passion for good design
Luigi Rosselli is an Italian born architect who practices in Australia. He was born in Milan in 1957. He studied architecture at the Ecole Politechnique Federale in Lausanne, where he met Alvaro Siza and Mario Botta, who offered Rosselli a job in 1979. He left the next year to work for Mitchell/Giurgola in their New York office. That firm won a commission to design the Australian Parliament House, and Rosselli moved to Canberra in 1981 to work on that project. He met his wife there, and the two of them moved to Sydney in 1984. He joined Furio Valich’s firm, then opened his practice a year later. His work has primarily been residential, but in the 1990s he worked on a series of restaurants. He says that his approach to architecture is “humanist, where people and environment take precedence over preconceived design dogmas”
LOCATION: Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
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Paddo Pool Terrace by Luigi Rosselli Architects transforms a historic Paddington terrace into a vibrant, multigenerational home. This project reinterprets the layered history of the row house, blending past and present in a way that honors its heritage while embracing modern needs.
For Luigi Rosselli, La Casa Rosa holds many happy memories his ‘young age’, hopefully La Nuova Casa Rosa will hold similar joys for the two young children who will grow up there.
Located at the crest of a steep sand embankment, Sandcastle House 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.
Though the project embraces the natural, Luigi Rosselli Architects have not refrained from using these materials in a cultured and referential way, their history is revealed in all the design choices.
As slender & gracious as a ballet dancer hovering over Edgecliff, ‘Pointe Living’ is elevated above the iconic Sydney Harbour. Shaped with rough rendered walls, curved glass balustrades and double edge concrete beams, this will be LRA’s tallest residential tower overlooking Sydney Harbour Bridge.
At the summit of Bellevue Hill a centennial Peppertree rises over the skyline; two homes lie beneath its vast canopy. To one side of the fence, The Oculi House and to the other, Peppertree Villa, a skillfully designed late 1920s home.
Designed on a steep site, located just below the summit of Bellevue Hill, this substantial residence has been endowed with an eagle’s nest panorama. The harbour is Sydney’s stage set and here on this hill we sit in the dress circle of this theatrical city …
Located in Bellevue Hill, Australia, the Homage to Oscar Niemeyer project by Luigi Rosselli Architects is a renovation that turns back time rather than projecting the future.
