Tom Robertson Architects is a Melbourne‑based studio specializing in thoughtfully crafted residential design. By beginning each project with close listening and site analysis, the practice delivers architecture that is both uniquely responsive to its context and enduring in its appeal. Their open, practical approach results in seamless spatial flows, while a restrained palette of natural materials and elegant simplicity balances everyday functionality with refined aesthetics.
Collaboration lies at the heart of the studio’s process. Clients, consultants, and the internal team contribute diverse insights, building trust and enriching design through iterative layering. The outcome is a portfolio of contemporary homes that bring joy to their inhabitants—spaces defined by clarity, warmth, and a quiet confidence that bears the firm’s commitment to excellence.
LOCATION: Richmond, Victoria, Australia
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Perched gently atop a ridge in country Victoria, Marraweeney House offers a refined and peaceful response to its vast rural surroundings. Designed as a weekend retreat, the home embraces a philosophy of restraint and calm. Rather than…
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.
The project involves the reinvention of two existing cabins to create one single luxury private suite and artist studio. The suite itself has been boldly carved into two halves. The entry side contains a kitchen and breakfast…
An innovative renovation and extension of a beautiful Federation home, the Windsor House complements the warmth of the existing period features with a clean, contemporary addition.
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…
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.
The Two Pavilions House is a striking modern timber-clad home set within the rural landscape of Phillip Island. Replacing an old much-loved holiday shack, the priority for the new design was creating a place that would suit the…
A home in the sky for a family of four, the Holly Penthouse combines luxury and state of the art technology with a welcoming, comfortable atmosphere. As a family home, contemporary natural materials, including stone, full-length oak…
