Gracefully nestled in the lush surrounds of a suburban Sydney neighbourhood, this three-bedroom residence is inhabited by partners Laura and Jono, their dogs Nessie and Kip, and cat Charlie. Draped House, as the name implies, is a harmonious home, el

Conversations about appropriate densification are relevant across Australia, as demand for affordable and diverse housing outstrips supply. Much of this discussion is concentrated on urban settings, but what should gradual densification that meets th

When the house designed by Peter (R. N.) Johnson for his family was placed on the market in 2009, genuine prospective buyers found themselves surrounded by those keen for a look at a house they already knew. Many had seen pictures and drawings of thi

In the inner-Sydney suburb of Leichhardt, small terraces and cottages jostle for light and air. Homes cluster below large trees that have precariously grown between walls in the small pockets of gardens and side passages. Many homes suffer from damp

There’s a bushfire burning somewhere south of Byron Bay. Strong winds bring haze to the Queensland border and into the undulating Tallebudgera Valley, where Tallowwood Cabin sits at canopy level on a sloped site. Rayne Fouché of Fouché Architects tak

The family home is a well-understood trope in Australian culture, although not one that is synonymous with high-end architecture. It’s perhaps most vivid in childhood memories – nostalgia for the cosy spot spent watching Sunday night movies together,

When founding directors Tamara Veltre and Jeremy McLeod tell the story of Breathe, they emphasize the modest nature of the alterations and additions projects that carried the practice through its early years. As Jeremy explains, “We had very humble b

The sensory delights of fine art hung on a gallery wall can draw viewers in for a close encounter, but signs and ever-present security guards remind us not to touch the art. Unwittingly, pristine scenes of architectural perfection can summon the same

Any project of architectural merit should endeavour to respond to its context and be shaped by the people that will inhabit it. When the owners of Alba – Clovelly Beach House decided to renovate their detached dwelling in Sydney’s east, they wanted a

A Renovation for Three is a home that intimately responds to the lives of its occupants as they are now, while making space for what might come. The new work, completed in 2022 by Office Mi–Ji, is an addition to an earlier project, A House for One (2

The hilly topography of the inner-Sydney suburbs of Paddington and Darlinghurst results in consistent patterns in the built landscape of mostly Victorian terraces. Winding streets are firmly defined by aligned front facades with verandahs, while the

Aru House is located in Maryville, an older suburb of Newcastle characterized by weatherboard cottages of varying stature and disrepair. The prevalence of this housing model in the area has provided Curious Practice, led by Warren Haasnoot and Greg L

This is a tiny story about many tiny stories. These narratives may be small, but they are richly felt and intimately understood by their makers and readers. Not all these stories are plainly stated: while some are written down, others are uncovered,

The stories told in Houses detail the ways that homes have been tailored to meet the demands of contemporary living. Whether it’s a judicious augmentation of an older terrace or bungalow, clever adjustments to an apartment or a carefully designed new

The heritage character of a street is often attributed to the aesthetic value of its built fabric. Mary Street, in the Perth suburb of Highgate, is a dense, tree-lined thoroughfare linking the green space of Hyde Park with the shopfronts of Beaufort

South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula features many fine examples of modern mid-twentieth century coastal residential architecture, whose presence on this rugged stretch of coastline was spurred by the postwar boom years. The optimism of the era ignit

The New South Wales Central Coast has long existed in a limbo, caught between a state of suburban sprawl and picturesque coastal setting. Located one-and-a-half-hour’s drive from Sydney, the area’s housing stock is a mixture of fibro cottages and bri

This project refit a masonry double garage into two bedrooms, a living space and a bathroom; really, it is a little house. The plan is subtly split by a bathroom “box” and two back-to-back, U-shaped sleeping spaces that are each defined by a double-l

As a typology, the iconic timber-framed Queensland house presents a simple spatial and constructional order from which countless variations have developed over time. The pattern of the traditional worker’s cottage – typically a four-room house with p

Houses designed by architects are pleasant spaces. They have strong connections to the outside, the correct amount of light, clever places to store your ugly things and pretty places to store your pretty things, and an obsession with lots of places t