Category: Projects
With the ever-increasing clutter of a newborn baby to consider, the owner of the Mills house in Melbourne approached Austin Maynard Architects seeking a considered and unique solution to storage in the home.
This apartment, within the historically significant Foy and Gibson warehouse complex, had over time succumbed to a series of dubious conversions. Breathe Architecture reignites the space while sparking connections with the past.
The Double Courtyard House by Vokes and Peters is an exercise in drawing the extraordinary out of the ordinary. The challenge was to find solutions to a complex client brief that required a mix of public and private space, while simultaneously anchoring an elevated building and delivering expansive, yet controlled, views.
As the first studies for Seascape were for “a bed and a fire and a cave to fit them in”, New Zealand architect Andrew Patterson must surely have contemplated Henry David Thoreau’s maxim: “Consider first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary.”
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