Houses

For the architect, designer, home owner, home builder or anyone simply interested in the best residential design, every issue of Houses tells the story of inspirational homes, their surrounds and the products that complete them. Through generous pictorial coverage from leading photographers, floor plans and lists of selected products, you share the delight of each home presented. You’ll also meet some of the creative people who designed them and keep up with the latest design trends and issues. Be inspired!

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Fresh finds • Embrace bold hues, tactile elements and artisanal pieces to create conversation starters in the home.

NEW CASTLE BY ANTHONY ST JOHN PARSONS • Driven by a vision of an Elysian walled garden, this monumental new home is an enigmatic presence in a city that more often immortalises its coastline.

DUNSTAN BY SSDH • A series of small, reductive parts plugged into a clinker-brick house gives greater potency to a postwar ambition for garden-focused living.

FLOATING GABLE HOUSE BY PHORM ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN • A former tennis court adjacent to the owners’ old family home now accommodates a calm and sophisticated new residence for right-size living.

Naomi Brennan Architects ONE TO WATCH • After studying and working with revered industry figures, Naomi Brennan now dances to her own tune, inspired by music, community and a passion for adding personal twists to timeless design.

Planet-conscious picks • A collection of elegant, eco-friendly products for the home.

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COIL HOUSE ADAPTATION BY KAREN ABERNETHY INTERIORS AND ARCHITECTURE • An empathetic adaptation to a distinctive and celebrated house, designed in 1954 by Peter McIntyre, honours the ideas – and idiosyncrasies – of the original design.

THROSBY HOUSE BY CURIOUS PRACTICE • A refined response to a familiar suburban context yields a relaxed family home that elevates the everyday patterns of domestic life.

HOLOCENE HOUSE BY C PLUS C ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS, JASE SULLIVAN AND DUNCAN GIBBS • Green in more ways than one, this new home in Sydney explores the synergy of architecture and landscape in its vision for more sustainable living.

Studio Kaytar FURNITURE, OBJECT AND LIGHTING DESIGNER • The richly textured objects created by Studio Kaytar reveal the designer’s fascination with material alchemy.

George Street by Hamish Guthrie • A commission from his future mother-in-law to reimagine a 1960s home in East Melbourne became a personal and professional milestone for Hamish Guthrie.

BALMORAL HILLSIDE HOUSE BY KIERON GAIT ARCHITECTS • The shady space beneath a Queenslander house is transformed into a platform in the landscape, providing breezy spaces that allow a family to live immersed in the garden.

AYR HOUSE BY HA ARC • A stable-like addition grafted onto an end-of-row terrace in Melbourne’s inner-north-west delivers light, space and aspect within the constraints of a tight urban lot.

CRUCIFORM HOUSE BY CILIBERTO ARCHITECTS • Poised and precise, this new house employs a concrete cruciform as both structure and organisational tool, creating a composed backdrop to domestic life for a multigenerational family.

Those Architects • With a passion for problem-solving, Those Architects unravel the constraints of site, climate and brief to produce rigorously designed homes that reflect a genuine care for the lived experiences of their clients.

Done House by Glenn Murcutt • In the harbourside suburb of Mosman in Sydney, this serene home by Glenn Murcutt for celebrated artist Ken Done and his family was designed as both a private sanctuary and a gallery for living in. Thirty-four years on, a careful restoration ensures its continued legacy.

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