The Courtyard House / Elaine Richardson Architect
The site for The courtyard house was typical of Alexandria, at 150msq in size (5m wide), built to the boundary on two sides and with a low scale apartment block to the rear.
Australia
With its distinctive indoor–outdoor lifestyle and sensitivity to climate and place, Australia offers a wealth of architectural inspiration. Discover standout residential and interior projects published on HomeWorldDesign from across the Australian continent.
Scandi House – Pared Back Home with Stunning Geometric Forms
Located in Barwon Heads, Victoria (Australia), the Scandi House is one of the limited edition designs of the ‘Auhaus Release’, built by the Lifespaces Group.
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. The existing features used as a launchpad for inspiration, the extension…
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…
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.
Cable House Revitalizes a Workers’ Cottage
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