Cottage-Fronted Family Home / Tom Robertson Architects
A respectfully contextual response to its neighbouring adjacencies, the cottage-fronted family home sees a calming and restrained sense of the familiar injected through a contemporary lens.
Australia
Barlow House in Brisbane / Alexandra Buchanan Architecture
Barlow house is an existing brick and tile infill house that is set amongst pre war timber and tin Queenslanders in the leafy suburb of Clayfield. The clients brief sought to reimagine the front facade and the house’s kerb appeal.
Crisp House Collingwood / Robert Nichol & sons
Crisp House is among the oldest remaining timber dwellings in Collingwood, and this is the reason for the high rating. Heritage houses are a double edged sword for an architect, especially if it’s an own home.
Townhouse Development on a Tight Site in Melbourne
Typical townhouse developments often have poorly planned layouts, uncoordinated and unnecessarily complex building forms, and eclectic material palettes.
Tom Robertson Architects Turned Dark Workers’ Cottage into a Contemporary Family Home
The Cable House transforms a small, dark workers’ cottage into a contemporary family home, finding elegant solutions to the challenges posed by the dense urban environment, narrow south-facing site and heritage context.
Helensvale Haus in South East Queensland / Happy Haus
The clients, a young couple building for the first time, engaged the Brisbane-based firm to bring the Helensvale Haus to life as an open courtyard-style home on their medium sized block …
Boundary St House, Port Melbourne / Chan Architecture
The Boundary St House is a striking, new house on a small, irregular site in Port Melbourne. The conceptual framework of the project was to draw inspiration from the industrial warehouse building type
Garden Residence in Sydney by James Design Studio
Garden Residence is a new house in the upper north shore using vernacular forms and gables defined by differing materials with a link in the middle giving a glimpse of what lies beyond while providing a framework for privacy.