Journal
We build few homes on purpose, and we think a great deal about each one. This is where some of that thinking lands. Notes from live sites, the awards and features our homes have earned, what an old building teaches you the day the walls come down, and what it takes to build a house someone will call theirs for the rest of their life. Written by the people holding the tools.
Bronze at the 2022 Brick in Architecture Awards, a 2023 Houses Awards Commendation, an AIDA shortlist, and features in Dwell, ArchDaily and The Local Project. One heritage home, with Wellard Architects.
Houses Issue 157 called it a masterclass in designing for a young family. Rob Kennon Architects designed it. We built it. ArchitectureAU and The Local Project followed.
Peter Barton Architects, interiors by Studio Doherty, and blade screens carrying mortise and tenon joins over steel. A note from the middle of the build.
est magazine Issue 38 with our name in the build credit, then The Local Project, Archello and Yellowtrace. A Fitzroy terrace rebuilt with Eastop Architects.
Chris Connell Design put exposed concrete, stainless steel and a feature red column inside a Victorian-era home. We made it stand up. The Local Project wrote it up.
The plans are only ever half the story. On a heritage restoration the real design happens in the demolition, and the latent conditions of a hundred-year-old building can hand you an ensuite, a yoga room, a sauna.
Curves, bespoke render, two-pack cabinetry, hidden fixings, anyone can source the makers. The hardest part is the sequence. Get one trade out of order and you undo another's work. Here's how we conduct it.
There's a lot of blood, sweat and tears in creating the means for a family to make the key decisions about the place they'll live in for good. It's very considered, very bespoke, case by case. We don't take that lightly.
In the builder's voice
We value simplicity, in architectural lines, and in the process that creates them.
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