How 22 Square Metres Changed Everything for This Sydney Architect’s Home.When Sydney architect faced the challenge of expanding her family's Inner West cottage during lockdown, she turned constraints into opportunities. The resulting 22sqm addition, featuring a cantilevered bay window and seamless garden...
Blurred Edges: Aru House in Newcastle by Curious Practice.Named after the Awabakal word for insect, Aru House places value on reuse and repair. This relatively modest home punches well above its budget and scale while contributing to the surrounding neighbourhood. It speaks to the power of...
Casa Liquida: Annex for a Sao Paulo Artistic Residency by Luiz Pataro.Casa Liquida (Liquid House) is an artistic residency in São Paulo conceived by Julia Feldens. Since 2015, Julia and her two children have shared their home with artists who use the space for experimentation and communal living. The...
Bringing Dark into Limelight: Shadow House by Grotto Studio.Wrapped in a charcoal-like charred jarrah timber, the Shadow House’s dark and moody addition by Grotto Studio gracefully recedes into the background, allowing the original 1900s cottage to maintain its prominence and heritage within the...
Landscape as Protagonist: Adelaide Villa by Mim Design.Mim Design has reimagined a grand Victorian Villa in Melbourne’s bayside suburb of Brighton with a thoughtful contemporary addition, drawing lush pockets of landscape— designed in collaboration with Kate Patterson Landscapes—into the...
Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts Extension by Neri&Hu.Neri&Hu have completed an extension to the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xi'an's Datang Everbright City. Located at the East Entry of the museum, the architectural icon is inspired by the idea of a glowing lantern. The new extension meets...
A Moment of Zen: Grove House by Clayton Orszaczky.A yearning for the past and excitement for the future manifests a lovely outcome in Clayton Orszaczky’s Grove House in Sydney’s Woollahra. The building was once attached with a questionable extension that functioned much like a...
Recurring Circular Shapes: Rotherfield Street by Atelier Baulier.Atelier Baulier has remodelled and extended the lower-ground floor flat of an early Victorian house in North-East London, increasing the size of the kitchen and creating a living space directly opening onto the garden. The floor plan is...
Familiar & Futuristic: The Glass Cabin by Mjölk Architekti.Mjölk architekti have completed a renovation of a 130-year-old cottage in Czech Republic’s Jizera Mountains with a glass extension. The home oscillates between familiar and futuristic, with the unusual layout capturing a multitude of...
