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Balmain Archive
It is rumoured that the average life of a bathroom in Sydney’s eastern suburbs is three years. While Balmain – a quaint hilly village on the inner harbour just west of Sydney city – has a reputation...
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Genevieve Lilley: Crafting the idea
As an architect who also designs jewellery, I am often asked, “How can you do both, when they are such different sizes?” There are many answers and in fact the differences in scale, emotion and timing...
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Fern Tree House (1969) revisited
On a map, Fern Tree seems to sit right on the edge of Hobart, a short drive from the oldest part of town. But in reality, while only fifteen minutes from the CBD, the area is remote, dense bushland...
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Balmain East Residence
The shoreline around Sydney Harbour varies enormously, as do the houses on its waterfront. Modern properties on the eastern shores are designed to maximize the view at all costs. They are characterized...
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Hunters Hill House
When architects work in cities other than their own, they bring with them a sensibility that benefits their client, who presumably sought them out for this reason. Their sensibility also benefits the...
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Let there be light: Skylight House
After visiting several projects by Andrew Burges, one becomes accustomed to the fact that his alterations and additions projects are generally invisible from the street. Skylight House, a comfortable...
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Spirit of generosity: Birchgrove House
Angelo Candalepas is skilled at designing quality multiple housing and public buildings. In spite of budget restraints, he always manages to explore big ideas to provide texture and depth to facades....
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A Loos-ian labyrinth: House McBeath
Working on small historic residential properties can be a thankless task: the local council wants the street frontage improved; the client wants a small house made large, without overcapitalizing. The...
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Down the rabbit hole: Annandale House
Architectural photographs always show a project at their best – when the sun shines, the windows are cleaned, and the garden is looking its finest. But when Sydney is beset with biblical weather, the...
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Explorations of restraint and celebration: Tobias Partners
When Nick Tobias talks about his first years of practice, one might think his life at that time was all work and no play. He started taking on projects in 1999, while studying at university, and...
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Spirit of displacement: Fugitive Structures 2015
For the past three years, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) has commissioned a spring courtyard structure, a Serpentine summer pavilion of sorts, in their Zen Garden behind SCAF’s Paddington...
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Street appeal: Kensington House
Kensington House is on a unique site that the clients wanted to preserve. It sits adjacent to a small, grassed corner park that has be come a sort of “borrowed space” for the dwelling, with a tennis...
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California dreamin': Breeze Block House
An all-white extension is not the first thing one imagines finding on a corner block in a leafy Lower North Shore suburb of Sydney with huge street trees, wide grassed verges and lowset red brick...
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Sizing up: Marrickville Courtyard House
As a passer-by, you might not initially notice this house by David Boyle Architect. There are lots of little cottages on its street in Marrickville – some brick, some timber-clad, some rendered. There...
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Urban osmosis: Three Marrickville Houses
Marrickville is a Sydney suburb that is noticeably diverse, both culturally and architecturally. The council area is home to some 83,000 people and has welcomed waves of immigrants from southern...
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Enchanted forest: Rose Bay House
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects is a firm that “doesn’t design many houses these days,” as director Tim Greer admits. So the chance to see one (outside of a dinner invitation) was for me a rare...
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Profile: Nobbs Radford Architects
It’s always refreshing to meet a couple whose tendencies or obsessions complement each other in architectural practice. Alison Nobbs describes Sean Radford as “uncompromising, more myopic” and herself...
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Monastic modesty: Surry Hills House
Very small-scale work – the modest refurbishment of narrow terraces in dense, city-fringe areas – is the grounding for many architects in their earliest days of practice. These sorts of projects are...
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Generosity and authenticity: The houses of Architect Prineas
Architects often get wistful as they recall their first and leanest project. For Eva-Marie Prineas, it is a very compact warehouse apartment in Sydney’s Darlington that has this effect. The apartment...
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Rich and robust: Brick House
The streets behind Sydney’s North Bondi Beach have a strange quality about them – they are not as relaxed as one would hope. There are few beach views, sporadic breezes and a constant air of street...
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