Designed by Steendyk Architects and located in Yeronga, Australia, the family residence that called Canoe Reach Residence is sited on a panoramic bend of the Brisbane River, engaging the hill upon which it sits to form a private retreat. Piecing the hill and ascending the stairs, a sequenced view unfolds: the park lands beyond, then [...]

This House design, Whale beach house is located at the southern end of Whale Beach, Australia, an early idea was of a timber packing case fallen from a ship and washed to shore. Designed by Alex Popov architects, articulate the idea of a modernist approach to the peninsula’s traditional concept of a beachside dwelling. Further [...]

The brief for the project was to design a house that would be a resting place during weekends, holidays, etc. in a condominium with a wide variety of house designs. The architecture of the house is base on creating a shell, a protective womb before the vastness of the sea, allowing inhabitants to contemplate in [...]

Near a rocky slope behind a thick blanket of pines lives a house in the shape of a tower. It’s not round but its geometric set-up dilates toward east and west to welcome in the low, warm extended light of the sun at dawn and dusk.
A double wall made from progressive monolithic castings of lightweight [...]

In fact, all the clients originally wanted was a larger living room window – now their three children live in a patio house of their own.
From a present-day perspective the use of space in this 1960s development of single-storey row houses with basement seems wasteful. The layout of the estate is far from dense, and [...]