Tag: residential
The Carlisle Street extension is a foray into a new Australian vernacular. Familiar materials and form are used with a higher consideration to context and passive design to create an extension that is restrained and simple; a volume of space that is light-filled and expansive yet private.
"I think the best architecture comes from restrictions of some sort." Brad Swartz discusses how he cleverly packs a lot into small spaces – from a home for his parents, to one for himself – for MEZZANINE.
Perched is an extension at the rear of a semi-detached, Edwardian house, a project by Wesley Spencer and Mathilde Polmard. The home sticks to the essentials, embraces light and puts emphasis on a kitchen suitable for a chef.
"I think everyone we were bidding against wanted to knock it down. Although that might have been more sensible, I fall in love too easily." Robbie Walker discusses the Glass Link House, which once had a fake tile roof, nasty aluminium windows and a dodgy add-on, but is now a delightful family home.
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