Houses

For the architect, designer, home owner, home builder or anyone simply interested in the best residential design, every issue of Houses tells the story of inspirational homes, their surrounds and the products that complete them. Through generous pictorial coverage from leading photographers, floor plans and lists of selected products, you share the delight of each home presented. You’ll also meet some of the creative people who designed them and keep up with the latest design trends and issues. Be inspired!

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PEDDER STREET BY BENCE MULCAHY • The much-loved Hobart home of a family of art collectors and avid gardeners is repaired and embellished, tailoring a distinctive residence that stitches together house, garden and animated daily life.

FAMILY TREE HOUSE BY PHORM ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN • Against the backdrop of an evolving neighbourhood where old steadily succumbs to new, this cherished home was retained and reoriented in a gentle update that honours its significant place in family memory.

DENNIS HOUSE BY OLAVER ARCHITECTURE • Exploring alternative possibilities for its suburban site, this new house employs CLT construction and a courtyard garden to meet the brief for a sustainable and community-minded family home.

HOUSES AWARDS 2024 • This special issue of Houses announces the winning, commended and shortlisted projects in the 2024 Houses Awards and honours the meaningful contribution Australia’s architects and designers make to enriching the way we live.

RED HILL HOUSE AND STUDIO

SHED HOUSE

COURTYARD HOUSE

BLUE MOUNTAINS HOUSE

ARCADIA

RED HILL HOUSE AND STUDIO

57 MARTIN STREET

REDFERN HOUSE

TOMICH HOUSE

COURTYARD HOUSE

CARRICKALINGA SHED

ARCHITECT GEORGE

SSDH

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Archier IN PROFILE • Environmentally responsive and exquisitely crafted, the residential work of this Melbourne studio exudes a quiet beauty. But behind this sensitive and humane work is a bunch of revolutionaries out to disrupt the status quo.

Caldwell House by David Caldwell REVISITED • Conceived in the 1950s as an exercise in minimalist living for an architect’s elderly parents, the diamond-shaped Caldwell House in the Melbourne suburb of Heathmont later proved itself startlingly adaptable as a home for the architect, his wife and their three children. It has remained a cherished family residence for seven subsequent decades.

Heide Modern: A Space Between EXHIBITION • Explicit art, embroidery and architect-designed furniture invite exhibition visitors to ponder public and private personas, gendered household roles and architecture’s influences on the human experience.