EMMA-KATE WILSON

Sleeping up to 14 people, the Avoca Weekender by Architecture Saville Isaacs is a testament to the intelligent design of shared family space. Created to be robust for the children, yet elegant and relaxing space for the adults, the project is the ideal family holiday residence.

The Bouwman House from Sam Crawford Architects sees an update on a 1914-era Federation house in Sydney’s inner-west. The result is a design that can be read as two distinct geometries whose form articulates the historic narrative of the home.

Ian Bennett Design Studio’s Concrete House stands out on a quiet cul-de-sac in Sydney’s inner west, providing a concrete refuge on the suburban street.

Perched within the trees at the water’s edge of Scotland Island, in Sydney’s Pittwater, The Pitt Point House, designed in 1985 by renowned architect Ken Woolley, is an icon of Australian design.

FMD Architects’ Bustle House takes its inspiration from the faded beauty and depth of character that the original Victorian building had developed with age, creating a response that builds on the client’s belief in her role as merely the caretaker of the building, personified as a grand ‘old lady’.

Inspired by Californian modernist architecture, 7 Ivy Lane by Michael Bernacki from HONED Architecture + Design juxtaposes a light and breezy exterior with dark, refined internal spaces.

On Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, the Point Nepean Residence from B.E Architecture is an architectural response to the vast scale of the natural environment in which the project is built.

With Architecture Architecture’s Dark Horse project, the simple brief for a two-storey, two-bedroom house is expanded into something much more, exploring the potential of the traditional worker’s cottage aesthetic.

With minimalist charm, the Albert Park extension by Modscape highlights the architectural possibilities of prefabricated construction, creating a tranquil retreat for its inhabitants.

Adam Kane Architects designed Yandoit Cabin as an eco-home for an artist to live and work within the surrounding gumtrees.

From a conceptual point of view, the architects wanted the whole project to integrate both architecture and landscape, in everything from the perspective on the street to elements throughout the house. Having native and endemic flora and fauna was essential to the clients, and inspired the name of the house, “Red Zephyr Blue”, from the red and blue dragonflies that appeared during the build.

A former ‘chook’ farm in Red Hill on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula is reinvented by Templeton Architecture as a family getaway using raw materials to blend and highlight the architecture’s stunning vista views.