Casuarina House by Vokes and Peters
The Casuarina House offers a clear diagram, clever detailing can create sophisticated architecture as beautiful inhabitants of our beach side suburbs.
The Casuarina House offers a clear diagram, clever detailing can create sophisticated architecture as beautiful inhabitants of our beach side suburbs.
We were approached by Nick and Emilie, with a young and growing family, to transform their traditional Stoke Newington terrace house into a modern family home.
This single-family residence had remained virtually unchanged since its construction in the 1950s. The program consisted of creating new living spaces that are bright, pleasant, and more adapted to a contemporary lifestyle, while respecting the original character of the residence.
The Viva la Vega house serves as a manifesto and transmitting element of the love that clients profess to this agricultural territory to their two children, allowing them to also enjoy an atmosphere similar to that of their childhood.
Built in the late 19th century as part of a large new estate in South London, Wandsworth Cottage is a small Victorian terrace house originally built as a modest workers’ cottage.
The vision for Forrest Street was to create a renovated heritage factory turned house, belying the reality that this is a brand new structure.
YARD Architects first met Nathalie and Alex at a Don’t Move, Improve! consultation run by the NLA at their annual exhibition of the best new domestic residential architecture in London.
The blueprint provided by HIP V HYPE’s Collaborative Development Model created the legal and financial structure that facilitated all three parties to join forces, a solution to the problem of sky-high Melbourne property prices.
Our response is to use an eclectic but carefully chosen palette of materials and colours to give the house this painterly and textured quality. A main component of the design is a concrete and timber tree which rises from the garden.
Caroline House is an alteration and addition to a weatherboard Edwardian house in inner Melbourne. The rear of the house faces south, where there is a generous garden. We restored and re-imagined the existing house and added a pavilion which is separated from the original building
The Glass House is a new build house which references the form and materiality of the surrounding agricultural buildings. The house is designed to embed itself in a historic brick garden wall – a remnant of a former grand country estate.
The Brick house was a collaboration with a family with four young children. Through discussions with the couple, it became clear that they wanted a clean modern brick house while at the same time it was important that the house encouraged play.