Tag: Residential | Architecture Now

Effortless makeover: Balwyn House

Projects | A classic suburban house has been transformed by an intervention that manages to appear both understated and effortless.

Projects | A classically elegant homestead in the Hunter Valley, Australia has been transformed with bubbling and inventive playfulness.

Projects | This Melbourne home simultaneously evokes a sense of solid permanence and a contradictory feeling of lightness and warmth.

Projects | A modernist-inspired rural retreat, this pavilion by Branch Studio Architects responds meaningfully to its landscape.

Projects | A house in Auckland’s Castor Bay with an intrinsic rhythm and movement and a tad of local poetry.

Projects | This house in Western Australia transcends its modest site and budget through strategic manipulations of light and form.

Projects | In a historic village in southern Italy, this simple townhouse has been turned into a veritable gem.

Projects | Overlooking Ruby Island on Lake Wanaka, a young family’s holiday home features four gabled timber forms.

Projects | Imbued with an Italian influence, this worker’s cottage in Brisbane has been transformed into an imaginary “ruin”.

Projects | A backyard building in Melbourne revitalises the rear of a property and a suburban laneway.

Projects | A generous site has been transformed by Base Architecture into a private park and a new home that takes from modernist cues.

Projects | Houses feature consistently on ArchitectureNow‘s ‘most read’ list, but which particular ones caught your eye this year?

Projects | This Sydney house balances generosity and intimacy with detailed craftsmanship and comfortable day-to-day living.

Projects | In this Sydney home, an artful sequence of layered spaces is contained within a building form that belies its size.

Projects | This beachside home in Tasmania is precise without being fussy, facilitating a relaxed lifestyle with a sense of grandeur.

Projects | With hills behind and the sea a block away, this home was a gentle introduction to the city for a couple used to open fields.

Projects | This Sydney apartment renovation by Retallack Thompson overcomes spatial challenges to add character and charm.

Projects | This private garden sanctuary is both an escape from city life and a retreat for a client who suffers from a sleep disorder.

Projects | This former worker’s cottage has been slowly transformed into an ideal and permanent home for two Wellington architects.

Projects | A melange of styles and impeccably curated objects turned this Parisian apartment into a welcoming and warm home.