#69 September-October 2019

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Design . Architecture . Landscape . Travel

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Editorial
Each year, our search for small projects becomes easier as both clients and their architects see the benefits of living in smaller spaces or choose not to expand when renovating. The difficulties of balancing light, volume and amenities often drive a
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Upfront
Winner at the 2019 Good Design Awards, the “Spin Stool” is ingeniously stackable and sustainable to boot. It’s made from certified sustainable veneer and water-based glues, is “virtually handmade” and uses minimal resources in production and transpor
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All Roads Lead To …
When designing Pentolina – a new, Italian restaurant in Melbourne – Biasol looked to Rome for inspiration and combined references to the city’s famous ruins and quintessential Italian pasta bars with the fabric of the existing, century-old building.
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Renaissance Man
There is an air of excitement about Joost Bakker. You can feel it even before being in his presence: arriving at his Monbulk, Victoria family home and farm (which he designed and built) one is met by a wall covered in living strawberry plants. This i
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Checkmate
On larger residential projects, a millimetre off is usually neither here nor there. But when the site is just 4.5 metres-wide, sandwiched between two double-storey houses, and the client seeks two gardens and living spaces, three bedrooms and a study
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Specs
Studio Bright studiobright.com.au Build2 Sustainability is addressed with an approach of quality over quantity with passive solar design principles at the heart of the planning and design. The house is orientated for maximum solar gain with the deep
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Take Two
When Tim and Liz engaged Downie North to renovate and extend their two-bedroom cottage in Balmain, Sydney, they failed to anticipate that twins would soon be on the way. Tim and Liz had lived in their house for five years, and like many cottages from
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Once Upon a Time
Storybook House by Tim Wilson and Christie Petsinis of Folk Architects shows us how well a small space can contain big ideas. The home carefully balances differing narratives, being both functional and fanciful, light in atmosphere but rich in textur
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Downie North downienorth.com The house is oriented to an existing eastern-facing courtyard with floor to ceiling glazing to the ground floor living area maximising light and air movement. The upper floor overhangs and an external pergola provide summ
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Folk Architects folkarchitects.com Moon Building Group Like all Folk Architects buildings, sustainability is at the core of Storybook House. Although the site is small, natural light and air are maximised to all spaces. The need for air conditioning
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Helping Hand
Pre-schooler parents crave quiet and calm with a fervour that borders on the religious (or was that just me?). Regardless, when clients Pat and Maddy Miller briefed architect Emlyn Olaver in early 2017 on an addition to their Edwardian cottage in Mel
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Olaver Architecture olaver.com.au Frameworks frameworks.net.au Inner West Joinery Living spaces are orientated to the north and feature large Victorian ash timber sliders with highlight windows above. Shading is provided by an eave and external blind
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Tight-knit
The weathered Queenslander homes perched atop Brisbane’s undulating landscape have, for more than a century, played dutiful subject to repair, alteration and addition. Their survival and revival are due to their inherently adaptable timber frame and
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Taking a Chance
Nightingale family holds its own on a challenging site adjacent to a railway in inner-city Melbourne. As one steps off the train at Fairfield Railway Station, it's not difficult to locate Nightingale 2.0. Rising up five storeys directly alongside th
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Six Degrees Architects sixdegrees.com.au HIP V. HYPE hipvhype.com Atelier Projects SBLA Environmentally sustainable design is a fundamental aspect of the project, including a highly efficient thermal envelope, good insulation, solar access, double-gl
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Permaculture Tips
Spring is the peak planting time in the vegetable garden, so put some time aside to get your patch prepared. Weeds need to be thoroughly removed, soil needs to be readied for planting and, importantly, your planting records need to be checked so you
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Changing the Scenery
In the inner suburb of Paddington, Brisbane, a subtropical, domestic landscape engulfs gully and hillside. Slender palms push through mango tree canopies while poincianas extend elegant limbs with scarlet blossoms. In the backyard of this 1920s weath
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Interest Peaked
Since time immemorial, Gariwerd (or more recently the Grampians) has held people in its awe with majestic sandstone escarpments dominating the horizon on approach. The main north-south ranges create their own climatic conditions with orographic uplif
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Over the Moon
With relaxed clients and architectural elements to bring to life, Mira Martinazzo and Aimee Howard of Mud Office have created a perfect working garden on this small suburban site. A few specific requests have been met with simple solutions that tie t
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What I Like About You
Highgate Hill, Queensland Architects: Brit Andresen and Peter O’Gorman When I was an architecture student in the late 1990s, a research visit to (some may call it trespassing) Andresen O’Gorman’s Rosebery House construction site was foiled when I di

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