Steep sites, international influences, and the desire to feel close to nature has informed the briefs and inspired the architects behind these projects.
POWELL STREET Melbourne-based architecture writer and editor Stephen Crafti speaks about his own home, and working with architect and friend Robert Simeoni on its renovation.
HOLE IN THE ROOF HOUSE Not an inch bigger than it needed to be, this restrained house in Sydney’s east by Neeson Murcutt wraps around an internal courtyard and enjoys views down to the ocean.
RAMMED EARTH RETREAT Brazilian-born, Byron Bay-based architect Thais Pupio doesn’t believe that a house needs to be high-tech to be architecturally innovative; this project is proof.
10X10 HOUSE It didn’t bode well for Patchwork Architecture that their clients had bought this site in Wellington off architects who couldn’t make it work for them, but Patchwork persevered and the results are like nothing we have seen before.
160 FADE TO GREEN Raw and imperfect, this house by HYLA Architects in Singapore is quite a departure from the decadent nature of its neighbours. The thinking here was to blur the lines between nature and architecture, for the former to almost feel as it is overtaking the latter.