Ashburton Townhouses / DeArch
The Ashburton townhouses also incorporated environmentally conscious design principles including optimising the solar orientation to benefit both dwellings despite one side facing north and the other south
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Kinney Residences / Clark Richardson Architects
The Kinney Residences consist of a main residence and guest house which flank a central courtyard space on a generous lot in South Austin. Visitors are greeted by the single-story guest house which is designed to be a quiet element in the streetscape
Surrey Hill Garden Terrace / Kieron Gait Architects
A new garden terrace acts as a filter between house and garden, managing change of level and orientation to allow the spaces to naturally connect whilst baffling out adjacent residences.
Spark Side House / Kaplan Thompson Architects
The clients wanted a Passive House, that they knew. They purchased a wooded, 2.8-acre lot with an old stone wall, remnants of a farmstead. Clearly somebody knew what they were doing with this land once.
Tonal Terrace House / Bradley Van Der Straeten
The existing house was divided into two dwellings, a small flat with fronts steps leading down on the lower ground floor and a family maisonette on the upper three floors, accessed up a flight of external stairs.
Gossamer on the Water / Kaplan Thompson Architects
Gossamer on the Water embodies balance, reconciling strength with airiness on the exterior and exposure with intimacy on the interior. The structure presents as gauzy and light as it ripples across the site, though is anything but fragile.
Red Oak Residence by LaRue Architects with Interiors by Britt Design Group
LaRue Architects designed a sprawling residence fronting Lake Austin that features a main house at 6,000 Sq Ft. There are three adjacent casitas connected by floating walkways – the entire footprint of this lakefront home totals just over 13,000 Sq Ft.
Oak Cottage / Dominic McKenzie Architects
Located next to Epping Forest, Oak Cottage was originally carefully designed and constructed in an Arts and Crafts style in 1901, but had been added to in a piecemeal fashion since then.