The brief challenged the architect to create a subtle structure connected with the environment while maximizing the views, leading Kirby to the counter-intuitive move of hunkering the Moonah Tree house into the landscape.
Referred to as “The View House”, this residence, located in Echo Park on a bluff, has views ranging from downtown Los Angeles in one direction to the iconic Hollywood Sign in the other.
Located on a relatively deep site in the inner city suburb of Northcote, the aim of this project was to renovate and restore a double fronted Victorian terrace house and provide a new spacious, light-filled modern rear and upstairs extension to the rear.
In a plot with significant slope and south orientation, located in Choulakia, Mykonos and overlooking Delos and Rineia islands, we decided to create a new, partly subterranean residence on two floors.
Overlooking a mountain lake, with sweeping views of the North Cascades, the Bear Creek Basecamp family home respects its rugged Methow Valley surroundings.
This linear cabin stretches out along the length of a site that overlooks a reservoir in southwest Washington. The Swift cabin sits behind a 35 foot buffer zone between the building and the edge of a cliff that is required due to unstable slopes.
The 1928 Penthouse in Valencia is located in a historical building that forms part of the city’s modernist architecture. Its main façade is structured into parallel vertical axes which line up with the elongated proportions of the window openings
The Corner Fold House is a compact, urban infill carefully crafted by Whittaker Parsons for a downsizing couple in south London. Sandwiched between a live substation and a short Victorian terrace, the Corner Fold House makes the most of the 3.9m wide plot.
