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1 week ago | 
design-anthology.com | Bronwyn Marshall
Designed by architecture firm Walter Brooke, Evergreen Community Precinct diverts the process of loss and grief into a space for community and connection. Sign up to read this post Join Now
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1 week ago | 
design-anthology.com | Bronwyn Marshall
The approach Bowen and her team took was both intuitive and deliberate, driven by a desire to honour the rich history and past owners’ occupation of the land, while also creating space for a contemporary life. ‘The house had to be brave,’ Bowen explains. ‘We didn’t just want to take a traditional approach to timber country homes, we wanted something unexpected.’ That sense of bravery reveals itself in details both subtle and striking.
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2 weeks ago | 
architectureau.com | Bronwyn Marshall
Elevated on a dramatically sloping site in Manly, Holocene House was designed for a family with an ambitious brief for a climate-positive home. The aim, shared by client and architect-builder, was to redefine conventional approaches to residential sustainability, embracing permeability, material innovation and the potential symbiosis between architecture and landscape. “We weren’t designing to tick sustainability boxes,” explains C Plus C Architects and Builders director Clinton Cole.
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1 month ago | 
habitusliving.com | Bronwyn Marshall
Williamstown Residence is where past and present are carefully interwoven to create a home that feels both grounded and quietly transformative, readied for its next chapter as a bridging between two eras. From the offset, a restrained formal response ensures that the existing heritage is not merely preserved but meaningfully engaged with the new insertions on site, crafting a seamless narrative of continuity and contrast.
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1 month ago | 
habitusliving.com | Bronwyn Marshall
A quiet coastal retreat all of its own, Shoreham House by NOXON Architecture reframes the relationship between built form and landscape, and between past and present. Responding to both an undulating topography and the embedded history of the existing dwelling, the addition and restoration of Shoreham House embodies an immersive attuning to nature, light and familial rituals.
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1 month ago | 
design-anthology.com | Bronwyn Marshall
Unlike many contemporary coastal homes that delineate between adult’s and children’s spaces, Dunes House aims to dissolve these thresholds, fostering a more fluid and intuitive way of inhabiting the home. At its heart, the home is a place of gathering, where family connection is prioritised over compartmentalisation. ‘It’s a place to escape to, to refresh,’ says David Burton, director of design firm WBL.
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2 months ago | 
habitusliving.com | Bronwyn Marshall
With three teenage children, the owners sought a considered approach — one that balanced openness with intimacy, material integrity with restraint, and a sense of renewal with the familiarity of home. “This house was designed as an antidote to the pace of city life, a place to slow down, reset, and connect with the fundamentals of living,” says Chris Barnes, founding director of Field Office Architects.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
habitusliving.com | Bronwyn Marshall
Perched atop the Victorian countryside, Marraweeney is an off-grid retreat by Tom Robertson Architects. Opting to steer clear of the archetypal ‘country house’ or ‘barn’ in favour of a minimalist pavilion that balances experience with identity.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
architectureau.com | Bronwyn Marshall
After years of shaping their respective careers in Melbourne, Benjamin Pitman and Jasmine Placentino made the pivotal decision to form their own practice and return to Adelaide. Parabolica represents both a personal and professional shift – a chance to blend and harness their experiences and their passion for crafted outcomes, and to create work on their terms. The directors express a clear intent driving their fledgling practice.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
habitusliving.com | Bronwyn Marshall
“Our clients requested a Coastal vibe,” says Penny Del Castillo, Founder and Creative Director of Studio del Castillo. “Something that was ‘comfortable chic’ and ‘relaxed luxury,’ without being ostentatious.” Embodying both resilience and comfort, the overall vision was for the home to combine and balance its people and place seamlessly. It’s an effort achieved through the expressed rawness of the exposed architectural structural elements together with the warm layering internally.
