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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A HOUSE FOR AN ARTIST BY CILIBERTO • Beyond its modest, shed-like exterior, this secondary dwelling is both an expedient and elegant solution to small-scale living, providing its artist owner with a canvas to animate with light, life and art.

PRESTON HOUSE II BY OLAVER • Relaxed and inviting, this family home combines a respectfully reworked interwar house with a skilfully planned extension that’s full of comforts for adults at work – and children at play.

PINJARRA HILLS HOUSE BY SULLIVAN SKINNER • Careful and concise, this addition resolves the problems of an unremarkable 1970s brick home in Brisbane, thoughtfully replanning it to support relaxed family living attuned to its subtropical locale.

HERMON BY WOWOWA ARCHITECTURE • Delicious colours and carved layers are the garnish to this practical reinvention of an Edwardian villa and its 1990s addition, which lets the family have their cake – and eat it, too.

STOKE FIREPLACE STUDIO A warm welcome • From classic to contemporary, from wood to gas, find your fire at Stoke Fireplace Studio.

2022 WINNERS • Announcing the winning, commended and shortlisted projects in the 2022 Houses Awards, and celebrating the meaningful contribution Australia’s architects and designers make to enriching the way we live.

WINNER 2022 AUSTRALIAN HOUSE OF THE YEAR

WINNER 2022 NEW HOUSE OVER 200 SQUARE METRES

WINNER 2022 NEW HOUSE UNDER 200 SQUARE METRES

WINNER 2022 HOUSE ALTERATION AND ADDITION OVER 200 SQUARE METRES

WINNER 2022 HOUSE ALTERATION AND ADDITION UNDER 200 SQUARE METRES

WINNER 2022 APARTMENT OR UNIT

WINNER 2022 GARDEN OR LANDSCAPE

JOINT WINNER 2022 HOUSE IN A HERITAGE CONTEXT

JOINT WINNER 2022 HOUSE IN A HERITAGE CONTEXT

WINNER 2022 SUSTAINABILITY

WINNER 2022 EMERGING ARCHITECTURE PRACTICE

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SHORTLIST

Incidental Architecture • Sixteen years after establishing his practice, architect Matt Elkan is rebranding the studio alongside long-time colleague and friend Daina Cunningham, reaffirming their ethos that architecture is fundamentally about serving people.

Glass House by Bill and Ruth Lucas • Designed in 1957 by Bill and Ruth Lucas, the Glass House was a radical experiment in living. Elevated on its sloping Castlecrag site, the building was both a prototype for an economical structural system and a vision for life lived in the landscape.

Dalison • An ambitious and immersive project by artist Ian Strange and musician Trevor Powers exposes the tension between the home as a place of memory, and the house as a commodity.