Ben Hosking is an Architectural Photographer from Melbourne, Australia. He studied photography at RMIT, and has worked as a freelancer in the field since 2008. His work has been published both locally and internationally by publishing houses such as Taschen, Gestalten and Thames and Hudson.
LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia
LEARN MORE: benhosking.com.au
Cuboid House perches on the slope of a leafy suburban neighbourhood elevated from a busy main road. It is designed for a close-knit family with young adults living at home; the brief asked for two self-contained sleeping areas so the family can enjoy living together as well as apart.
Within the folding hills of its hinterland site, the Federal House acts as both experiential container for this place and as a conditioning object, consciously aware of its outsider status within the traditional ownership and legacy of this landscape.
A significant refurbishment & extension of an existing period residence in Carlton North. An angular charcoal extension to the rear creates fantastic views of the gardens and sky which funnel the winter sun deep into the interior.
Located in Strathmore, in Melbourne, Wickham House is a new 520m2 single house designed over three levels to create an place for intimate family dinners to large birthday parties. MODO Architecture has carefully examined the traditional family home and reconstructed it as a series of texture-rich volumes
Brick Courtyard House is located within Sydney’s Western suburbs, an area typified by post-war brick cottages, and increasingly peppered by unsympathetic project home development. Unique to the site is the presence of a forested lake reserve.
Located in a major tech suburb of Bangalore, that until 15 years ago was open farmland, this project strives to create a quiet retreat for a young family of five in an otherwise densely populated and unplanned community.
The Lakehouse by Collective Project is a private lake retreat designed as a space for entertaining, and as a respite from urban life. Located on a steeply sloped and rocky site overlooking the Durgam Cheruvu Lake in Hyderabad
This Australian contemporary house is located in a bushfire prone area and responds to the potential direct fire threat by providing a solid (fire-rated) interface in that location.
Whispering Smith’s House A is a challenge to the status quo of housing in Perth. The sustainable apartment-house hybrid is designed for small lots and uses commercial materials in an innovative way to achieve a tight footprint and carbon neutral status.
The project is driven by the clients vision to restore and preserve a beautiful doubly storey weatherboard bungalow in Williamstown.
The Willisdene house leverages Australia’s largest latent asset – the stereotypical backyard – to create a new heart for the dwelling and family, re-conceptualise the relationship between the house and garden, and to embed landscape in the ritual of everyday life.
Retaining the optimistic façade and the generosity of the original dwelling, Templeton has added to the simple rectilinear form while exploring the decorative possibilities of brick construction commonly found in the architecture of the Art Deco movement.
