Tag: Houses
RSSRichness in texture: Westmere House
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A modern addition breathes new life into this 1929 home in Westmere, Auckland, without overpowering its original glory.
Open and shut: Perimeter House
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Make Architecture’s addition to a two-bedroom house in Abbotsford, Melbourne, reflects the area’s industrial aesthetic.
An outdoor challenge: Waterloo House
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A sensitive extension to a heritage-listed Sydney terrace house offers generous living spaces and encourages an outdoor life.
Of its place: Layer House
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This sustainable beach house in Victoria is modelled on the layers of limestone shelves and caves that make up its site.
Effortless makeover: Balwyn House
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A classic suburban house has been transformed by an intervention that manages to appear both understated and effortless.
Sun, sea, sand: 2017’s top beach houses
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Before this rather tumultuous summer ends, we look back at last year’s 5 most popular beach houses from across New Zealand.
Hot House: Tulum Treehouse
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Contemporary flair with a Caribbean soul is key to the success of this idyllic jungle house on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.
‘A radical excision’: Mulconda
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A classically elegant homestead in the Hunter Valley, Australia has been transformed with bubbling and inventive playfulness.
Solid permanence: Armadale Residence
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This Melbourne home simultaneously evokes a sense of solid permanence and a contradictory feeling of lightness and warmth.
Anchored in the bay
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A house in Auckland’s Castor Bay with an intrinsic rhythm and movement and a tad of local poetry.
Brick by brick: Grey Street House
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This house in Western Australia transcends its modest site and budget through strategic manipulations of light and form.
Stealing beauty: Nepi Townhouse
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In a historic village in southern Italy, this simple townhouse has been turned into a veritable gem.
Telescopic vision: Annandale House
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This robust addition to a weatherboard cottage extends across its site, creating open, calm spaces in dense inner-Sydney.
Series of pavilions: Sunrise Bay House
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Overlooking Ruby Island on Lake Wanaka, a young family’s holiday home features four gabled timber forms.
Ruin in the landscape: Gibbon Street
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Imbued with an Italian influence, this worker’s cottage in Brisbane has been transformed into an imaginary “ruin”.
Outdoor shenanigans: Rocky House
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A generous site has been transformed by Base Architecture into a private park and a new home that takes from modernist cues.
Architects in Profile: Dorrington Atcheson
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Tim Dorrington and Sam Atcheson’s highly collaborative methodology has produced numerous award-winning buildings.
Top 5 houses of 2017
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Houses feature consistently on ArchitectureNow‘s ‘most read’ list, but which particular ones caught your eye this year?
Fine grain of detail: Mosman House
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This Sydney house balances generosity and intimacy with detailed craftsmanship and comfortable day-to-day living.
Revisited: Choong House
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Built in 1985, this home by Biltmoderne in Melbourne presents a poetic integration of architecture, water and landscape.