Congratulations to the winners from each category!
Category: LARGE NEW HOME
Bermagui Beach House by Winter Architecture
Design outcomes: The house is defined by three solid volumes loosely wrapped in a timber skin. Distinctively sited to the rear boundary, the house abolishes the backyard and front fence. Instead, the house forms an immediate relationship with the garden and a distant connection to the ocean.
Bermagui Beach House
Location Bermagui, NSW
Architecture and interior design Winter Architecture
Construction D&D Funston
Photography Jack Mounsey
Website winterarchitecture.com.au
Category: SMALL NEW HOME
Beach Slice by Steffen Welsch Architects
Design outcomes – The shape of the house, triangular in form, defines the traditional approach, allowing for the home’s three elevations to create a looseness on the large coastal site. This arrangement enables each facade to respond to the site and its orientation, engaging with the biodiverse garden designed by landscape architect Jo Henry.
Location Shoreham, Vic
Architecture Steffen Welsch Architects
Photography Tatjana Plitt
Website steffenwelsch.com.au
Category: LARGE RENOVATION (SHARED WINNERS)
Autumn House by Studio Bright
Design outcomes Autumn House has three parts: the original Victorian, the Jörgensen addition, and the new contemporary works. The body of work involved the restoration of the Victorian front and hallway, including bringing archways and cornices back to their former glory and adding some playful detailing to suggest a modern intervention.
Location Carlton North, Vic
Architect and interior building designer Studio Bright
Construction ProvanBuilt
Photography Rory Gardiner
Websites studiobright.com.au; provanbuilt.com.au
SRG House by Studio Johnston
Design outcomes Restoration of the superstructure included peeling out the perished interior linings, stripping back to the original concrete structures and replacing all fixed windows with new, high-performance, timber-framed glass.
Location Sydney, NSW
Architecture Studio Johnston
Construction SQ Projects and Dot Kom Carpentry
Photography Anson Smart
Websites studiojohnston.com.au; sqprojects.com.au
Category: SMALL RENOVATION
Brunswick House by Placement Studio
Design outcomes – A reorientation around courtyards and framed views of garden blurs the line of internal and external, while funnelling natural light into a defunct south-facing plan that situated the ancillary wet areas at the rear — a typical planning move of the era.
Location Brunswick, Vic
Architecture Placement
Construction Inner North Carpentry
Photography Tom Ross
Websites placement.net.au; innernorthcarpentry.com.au
Category: ENERGY-EFFICIENT HOUSE
Pepper Tree Passive House by Alexander Symes Architect
Design outcomes – While the existing house had a tired and thermally inefficient brick exterior, internally the home’s layout functioned perfectly for the young family. As a response, the project brief developed into one where the existing home had its external envelope upgraded — including new insulation where practical, a ventilated timber screen facade, new skylights and a wraparound deck and solar panel pergola.
Location Unanderra, NSW
Architecture Alexander Symes Architect
Construction Souter Built
Interior design Paiano Design
Photography Barton Taylor
Websites alexandersymes.com.au; souterbuilt.com.au; paianodesign.com
Category: INTERIOR
Silver Linings by Rachcoff Vella Architecture
Design outcomes The five-bedroom home’s floor plan was dreamed up with consideration to the family’s day-to-day life, now and into the future. Some spaces, such as the basement home theatre and the first floor’s open-plan kitchen, dining and living area, facilitate collective family time.
Location Black Rock, Vic
Architecture Rachcoff Vella Architecture
Construction Koorool Constructions
Photography Tatjana Plitt
Websites rachcoffvella.com.au; koorool.com.au
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