Quiet Power: Merricks Farmhouse in Victoria by Michael Lumby with Nielsen Jenkins.While architecture is often known to disrupt the landscape, delicate planning and bold moves can introduce a sense of nuance and layer of poetics. In the case of Merricks Farmhouse by Michael Lumby and Nielsen Jenkins, the determination of...
Simplifying & Restoring: The Cambium by Carr.With a focus on simplifying rather than adding, restoring rather than replacing, Carr’s design approach for The Cambium, a business retreat set on a four-acre property in Mornington Peninsula, celebrates the existing. The resulting...
A Beachfront Bungalow in Sorrento by Fiona Lynch.With a wheat-toned interior and Italian Rationalist hallmarks, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Sorrento House is located somewhere along the Positano coastline. Instead, the house, redesigned by Fiona Lynch, sits quietly opposite...
A Modish B&B in Red Hill by Tom Robertson Architects & Simone Haag.The very mention of a bed-and-breakfast can conjure up visions of chintzy chairs and lace curtains and fluffy three-egg omelettes that taste like Sunday morning. Bassano is none of that—except for the omelettes, which they will happily...
Always by Kennedy Nolan.The inimitable Melbourne architecture practice, Kennedy Nolan, knows a thing or two about designing domestic spaces. Their latest project is a weekender in Flinders with intense interior materiality punctuated by the vast coastal...
OTT Minimalism: Horizon Flinders by Mim Design.Nestled within the rugged cliffs of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Horizon Flinders takes notes from the raw beauty and tactility of its coastal outlook. With a striking figure already cut by BH Architects, Mim Design took on the...
Pyramids of Flinders: Bellows House by Architects EAT.Albert Mo wanted a permanent house anchored in the sand from the outset, unlike the predictable light-weight beach vernacular. “More like a bunker than a shack,” he says, setting out to design a building that spoke of its location and...
Tidal Arc House in Flinders, VIC by Hecker Guthrie, Woods Bagot & Simone Haag.Designed by Hecker Guthrie and Woods Bagot, Tidal Arc House in Flinders flips the stereotypical typology of an Australian coastal home on its head. Rather than go the light and bright route observed by so many beachside homes, the...
Many Little Bistro in Red Hill, VIC by Hecker Guthrie.Designed by Melbourne-based Hecker Guthrie, Many Little is an all-day eatery and cellar door at Polperro Winery on the Mornington Peninsula. Muted green, rich timber, and textural brick mimic the palette of the surrounding rural landscape,...
