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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Houses

TERRACE HOUSE BY ROB KENNON ARCHITECTS • A new home in a heritage setting unites an exterior that responds to the formal qualities of the past with an interior that reflects the living patterns of the present.

TOOWONG TOWERS BY ALCORN MIDDLETON • A thoughtful reworking of a 1930s Queenslander cottage employs clever sequencing and a private central courtyard to meet the evolving demands of contemporary family life.

BONDI HOUSE BY NICK KENT DESIGN • More than just a machine for living in, this ordered and gleaming new home in Sydney’s Bondi is a surprisingly adaptable dwelling from which to appreciate light, nature and space.

GREYBOX BY WELSH AND MAJOR • Beneath a pragmatic shell, this joyful and unconventional new home in a suburban seaside town inspires a slower rhythm of living in dialogue with place.

BLOK THREE SISTERS

HEDGE AND ARBOUR HOUSE

SAWMILL TREEHOUSE

CLOAKED HOUSE

CARLTON COTTAGE

BLOK THREE SISTERS

WINDOW, WINDOW, WINDOW BY PANOV SCOTT

MESS HALL

CAKE HOUSE

ELLUL ARCHITECTURE

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SHORTLIST

Edition Office • With a body of work typified by refined, elemental forms and controlled, confident material expression, this Melbourne-based studio is crafting richly experiential homes that respond keenly to people and place.

Ball-Eastaway House by Glenn Murcutt • A 1983 house built for two artists in serene bushland north-west of Sydney came to typify rising star Glenn Murcutt’s growing philosophy of “touching the earth lightly” – an approach centring humanity within nature, not above it.

Cal Somni GARDEN PAVILION • In the backyard of a beach shack in Fingal Head, this garden pavilion is an adaptable space for living in the landscape.