Modern Houses

The brief for this house renovation emphasised the tenets of mid-century modern design: individuality, colour and connection between family+house+garden.

6 Lever Street was a fitting example of the typical 1970-80s era of residential, suburban development in a northern coastal suburb of Perth, Australia.

An alteration to an existing warehouse conversion on Gadigal Country in Camperdown, New South Wales, Rosso Verde is quality over quantity personified.

The owners of this holiday and weekend retreat in Austin, Texas, are a pair of sisters, one of whom is a
furniture designer and carpenter for Muhly Studio. This sister brought her taste for the minimal and natural aesthetic to the table for this inspiring co-creation.

The owners of ‘The Ash’ came to Dalecki Design looking for a carefully considered, passive solar home. As a young, growing family, it was imperative that the home was not only environmentally functional and sustainable, but supported the family as they grew through the different stages of life.

A spectacular site is both a gift and a problem for new architecture. The positives are self-evident, the negatives less so, but apparent in single-orientation, glassy boxes which proliferate on such sites.

Wrong Champ is a house for collectors, a cluster of intimate courtyard spaces infused with curiosity and crafted collisions located on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people in Brunswick West.

The East Fremantle House is a contextually responsive addition to a heritage cottage in suburban Perth, Australia, completed by Nic Brundson.

The Highbury House project is a joyful restoration of a quintessential 1980’s suburban home. The interiors embrace the charisma of this often-shamed decade of design, giving new life and relevance to the home’s exuberant heart as it beats in unabashed colour and riotous texture; warm, unrestrained and deliciously liveable.

Falling in the Wakefield Gardens Housing precinct, the land was purchased by the client after the ACT Government’s Mr Fluffy buy-back scheme, in which the government acquired and demolished homes that had used the infamous asbestos insulation.

Keeping within the existing building footprint of this double fronted Edwardian residence, this renovation reflects the changing lifestyle of a family as they move into the next phase of their journey.

Resting on a hilltop in the hinterland of Byron Bay, Australia, this unique double pavilion was inspired by memories of midcentury modern architecture.

On a steeply sloping site in Brisbane, Australia, an extensive build is perched beyond a classic cottage façade, where contemporary curves are underpinned by mid-century lines.

The client had lived in the home for nine years and loved the location and feel of the house but wanted an update that wasn’t pretentious and preserved the sense of warmth throughout the home.

This house is organized around a central courtyard, with floor-to-ceiling glass pocketing doors providing a seamless transition between indoor and outdoor living.

A prominent, corner sited Edwardian on the crest of Ruckers Hill, has been restored and enlarged with new living spaces in a separate rear-garden pavilion.

The property is located on a corner site in Eastbourne, in an established seaside area set one block back from the beach, with the bush clad Eastbourne hills forming a backdrop to the east.

Highlands House offers a very different experience of living in the landscape to that of the quintessential modern Australian house.

Transforming an 80s house into a modern home, blending midcentury design with breathtaking views on a New South Wales farm.

The traditional Sydney semi is reborn with a new pavilion that contains living, kitchen and dining flowing out to the north-facing courtyard.

Little Manly House is located nearby Little Manly Beach at the base of Manly’s Eastern Hill. The house enjoys oblique views across the street to the harbour to the south west while the topography rises from the rear yard to the north-east with established trees providing a green sense of enclosure to the rear of the property.

This residence, located on a bluff above a surf break in Santa Cruz, California was designed by Commune Design in collaboration with Feldman Architecture.

The old house is the typical double fronted Victorian weatherboard. A window each for the front bedrooms, a long high hallway. This hallway was the axis we used in siting the new extension.

This home in Perth, Western Australia, underwent a series of additions and alterations with a particular set of pre-existing conditions.

This property is an architectural gem, with contemporary glass walls and an indoor pool, and is situated on 18 acres of untouched forest overlooking a private scenic pond.