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    Island Beach House

    Architects Ink
    The owners of this beachside getaway lived next door for several years, formulating a plan for their ideal home before engaging Architects Ink to bring their dreams to reality. At Architects Ink, the process is as important as the finished product, focusing on collaboration with both clients and builders, strong design skills, 3D modelling, and a strong understanding og how people use space.

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    Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre, Port Hedland

    Paradigm Architects
    Paradigm Architects is a Perth-based practice witha  focus on the research and public promotion of environmentally and regionally responsive design throughout Western Australia. Located in the tropical, arid environs of South Hedland, WA, this laguage centre embodies the symbiosis between the land and its custodians. 

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    Swan Street Residence

    Iredale Pedersen Hook
    In a sleepy Perth riverside suburb, Iredale Pedersen Hook’s Swan Street Residence is a re-interpretation of the suburban bungalow, with a nod to the materials and forms of the early 20th century Arts and Crafts movement. An extension of a family home, the design takes the line of the existing roof and zigzags it upwards, transforming it into an oblique new upstairs wall, which scoops over the new space like free-form origami. The additions fold and unfold, compress and release to create subtle internal relationships.

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    Snowy Mountains House

    James Stockwell
    The brother of James Stockwell, architect of a rather breathtaking new house in the Snowy Mountains, is a geologist. It is always revealing, Stockwell says, to talk to his brother when he is starting out on a project. The geology of the Snowy Mountains site turned out to be weathered igneous granite, with later deformations of quartz “blows” or veins. The diagram of the quartz crystal is a tetrahedron helix, a form containing both triangulated strength and a dazzling ability to catch the alpine light. Geology was the first inspiration for Stockwell’s structure, a structure that thinks seriously about the place of design within a natural system.

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    Polygreen

    Bellemo & Cat
    Bellemo & Cat is an architect/artist team that freely moves between architecture and sculpture, and between public and private works, including an Australian Technical College, a pavilion in a park, residential buildings and large-scale public art. One of their most recent projects, the design for the team’s own home-office, incorporates a little of the practice’s rich genealogy into its form.

     

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    Brunswick St House

    Andrew Maynard Architects (AMA)
    The still-emerging Melbourne architect Andrew Maynard self-professedly explores architectures 'of enthusiasm'. His small firm splits its time between broader socio-political design studies and the small but multi-functional and versatile built works for which AMA is increasingly well known.

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    Elandra Housing, Bundeena

    Tony Owen Partners
    If there is anything worse than an endless vista of McMansions marching across the hills, it's an endless strip of cookie-cutter homes sullying an otherwise picturesque stretch of coastline. Now, wandering along Hastings Beach, in the hilly scrub of the Royal National Park near Bundeena, one might just stumble across fifteen beach houses of the Elandra Housing Project, not that one would ever instinctively categorise them as such.

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    K2 Apartments

    DesignInc
    In this era of ‘green is cool’, we often forget that ecological sustainability isn’t just about the natural environment. An ecosystem is more than just an environment, and it is also more than just a sum of its parts. So a truly sustainable project must also give equal consideration to social and economic sustainability, as well as human and intergenerational sustainability. Which is why the K2 Apartments project is a sustainable development.

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    Leura House

    James Stockwell Architect
    How can this be done with fewer materials? is a question architect James Stockwell often asked himself while designing this home in Leura, a township nestled high in the Blue Mountains. Overlooking a valley and small creek to the Northeast, the lithe structure is perched on a neat bed of local rammed earth. Even the upper floor appears as if it is floating, since it is supported by a grid of slender Australian hardwood columns cantilevering off the central loft slab.

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    Ribbon House

    Hartree + Associates
    Unmistakably modelled on the tail of a flyaway ribbon flickering in the wind, the roofline of the Ribbon House is the source of the project’s lively persona as well as its name. A playful, smoothed-out interpretation of the neighbouring peaked terrace row roofs, the undulating roof ends abruptly, its edge cantilevered out over empty space as if it isn’t quite finished, or maybe it’s trying to run away. And in this sense it literally does, as the architects say, breathe a sense of animation into space.

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