Local House / Zen Architects
Located within Mount Eagle Estate in Eaglemont, Local House is a modern, sustainable home that reinterprets the character of the historically significant suburb and harmonizes with its landscaped surroundings.
Derek Swalwell Photography
Photographer of architecture, landscapes, lifestyle, food, travel and art work. Shooting since 1999, Derek Swalwell started working with Melbourne architects and designers. His work has since expanded to include international design firms, advertising agencies and many overseas titles. He enjoys working with great people and ideas.
With a career spanning 20 years, Derek Swalwell is one of Australia’s best-known and most respected architectural photographers. Known for capturing some of the world’s most spectacular architecturally designed buildings, Swalwell is fascinated by architecture and the built environment, both in Australia and abroad.
It follows, then, that he would collaborate with a celebrated Australian architecture firm (and long-standing clients) to renovate and update his own home in Melbourne.
LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia
LEARN MORE: derekswalwell.com
Four-Bedroom Family Home / InForm Design + Pleysier Perkins Architects
Set on an unusual wedge-shaped property this four-bedroom family home utilises its north-west frontage for the outdoor entertaining area and pool.
Silvertop House by Tom Robertson Architects
Sympathetic to its context and restrained in its materials, Silvertop House maximises its compact site to balance practical and joyful family spaces in one intelligently crafted home.
Bassano House by Tom Robertson Architects
Bassano House is unique and full of unexpected experiences. In direct contrast with the soft rural exterior architecture, the interior delicately balances bold brutal ideas with delicate detail design.
Bellows House by Architects EAT
Anchoring the Bellows house in the sand instead of using typical light weight beach vernacular created more of a bunker than a shack.
Sorrento Residence by Project 12 Architecture
Set amongst the dunes and Moonah trees of Sorrento Back beach, this project comprises a new home for a family of four. Their brief was for a family home that respected the coastal site and provided a home that was luxurious, yet also relaxed.
Always House by Kennedy Nolan Architects
A spectacular site is both a gift and a problem for new architecture. The positives are self-evident, the negatives less so, but apparent in single-orientation, glassy boxes which proliferate on such sites.
Stockroom Cottage, Melbourne / Architects EAT
Craft is central to this project, once the home of a guitar maker and potter. The brief was to combine a warehouse and adjacent workers cottage into a single family home.