Amazing Architecture

How amazing is this Frank Gehry designed building, due for completion later this year?  It's the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at UTS in Sydney.   Keen to see this one in real life. 

More Mim bathroom love.....

Finnon Glen

More Doherty Lynch magic.  A friend is doing a kitchen re-model and is using the kitchen in this house at Finnon Glen as inspiration.  Can't wait to see how it turns out!

 

Photos by Sonia Mangiapane

2012 Houses Awards

More inspiring spaces from the 2012 Houses Awards

Brick House – Clare Cousins. Image: Shannon McGrath

Courtyard House – Studio Moore. Image: Lachlan Moore

House Reduction – Make Architecture Studio. Image: Peter Bennetts

Skirt + Rock House – Marsh Cashman Koolloos. Image: Richard Glover

South Yarra Residence – Nixon Tulloch Fortey Architecture. Image: Shannon McGrath

Tusculum Street Residence – Smart Design Studio. Image: Sharrin Rees

A House with Tiles On It – Welsh + Major. Image: Benjamin Hosking

Beaconsfield Parade – Whiting Architects and Y10Store.com. Image: Sharyn Cairns

Azuris

Just looking through some of the amazing finalists in the 2012 Houses Awards.  So loving this entry above, Azuris on Hamilton Island by Renato D’Ettorre Architects.  Betting they don't have children however!

"The design of the house responds to its spectacular location near the edge of the ocean and its site falling steeply away towards the water’s edge on Hamilton Island. simple, clean spaces are carved out of robust masonry, ensuring longevity and low future maintenance in the sub-tropical climate. the design philosophy is based upon the emphasis on the eternal elements of sun, sea and air in combination with the materials’ textural quality and honesty which makes the house invisible from the surrounds. internal spaces wrap themselves around water and courtyards, capturing not only ocean views but also inward looking private vistas."

Images via Renato D’Ettorre Architects

Neometro bathrooms

These bathrooms by Neometro are giving me ideas.......

And the rest of their projects?  STUNNING.  I'll be back for a closer look.

Heaven

Gorgeous Zuster stools in a gorgeous Doherty Lynch designed kitchen.  Sigh.

Fuller Street, Deakin

I went to an open house today.  6 Fuller Street Deakin is up for auction in a few weeks time, and I couldn't resist the temptation to go and see this fabulous piece of modernist architecture.  The current owners have lovingly restored it, updating and modernising it under the guidance of the original architect who designed the house back in 1965, Dirk Bolt.

Front view

I love that the house sits so harmoniously with it's surroundings and that it is completely different from anything else nearby.  It entices you in from the street.  Don't you just want to know what is behind that fantastic wall?

Original House, designed by Dirk Bolt, 1965

This is the original house.  I love that nothing has changed much, just a coat of paint.

Front view

Courtyard

Looking across courtyard from main entry to master bedroom

A simple yet elegant courtyard with a slightly Japanese feel.  Immaculate, as it the rest of the house.  You can tell this house is loved.

Family room, looking back to entry and courtyard

Family room, looking from entry to back deck

Family room

This room is the only one in the house I can't see working too efficiently.  It's the first room you walk into upon entry, with two bedrooms running directly off it.  So if it's a playroom (for younger kids) or a separate space for teenagers to hang out, I hate to think what state it would greet visitors in the majority of the time!

Kitchen

I think this kitchen would look STUNNING with two Copper Pendants hanging over the bench.  OK.  So I may be slightly biased and/or obsessed!  But it's the first thing I would do.

Dining room

This whole open plan kitchen/dining/lounge room is an amazing space.  Perfectly proportioned.  With a whole bank of floor to ceiling windows/sliding doors along one wall.  Love.

Lounge room

Lounge room, looking back to dining/kitchen/deck

Study area

Technically the study is it's own room if you close those STUNNING sliding timber walls, closing it off from the lounge room behind and the master bedroom in front.

Those timber sliding walls.  OH THOSE TIMBER SLIDING WALLS!

Master Bedroom

Looks a tad boring in this image, but it has a lovely calm feel to it, with a full wall of glass sliding doors leading out to the deck overlooking the courtyard.

Ensuite

Gorgeous natural light coming in from strip windows above the mirrors, plus that lovely gentle under-lighting in the alcove.  Huge 450mm tiles on floor and walls.  Heavenly.

Deck overlooking back yard

Deck

Deck at night

Back yard

Main bathroom

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 1

Floor plan

One of Dirk Bolt's other Canberra houses, 1 Astley Place, GARRAN.   Oh how I wish I could see inside this beauty!

1 Astley Place, Garran

All images via AllHomes, except 1 Astley Place via Canberra House