From community-minded housing in Canberra to an architect’s lauded own residence in Sydney’s north, these are the houses we featured in our Revisited collection in 2024.
Nestled into the hillside above Wategos Seashore in Byron Bay, the house Christine Vadasz designed for her younger household in 1977 was a testing floor for a holistic method to environmental design. Virtually 50 years after it was accomplished, it endures as an unpretentious instance of structure in equilibrium with panorama.
This recent and useful home was certainly one of a flurry of modernist seashore homes constructed on South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula through the increase of the Nineteen Sixties. It endures in the present day not simply as a nostalgic reminder of the optimism and vibrancy of the period, but in addition as a testomony to the hedonism of sluggish and easy holidays on the seashore.
Within the city of Murrumbateman, north of Canberra, this house epitomises architect Laurie Virr’s deep understanding of the human want for connection to put. Immediately, it’s a reminder of Virr’s perception within the restorative potential of a well-designed home.
This Sydney home, designed by Peter Johnson for his circle of relatives, has been admired and acclaimed since its completion in 1963. Sincere, unpretentious and splendidly preserved, it endures in the present day as an vital work of Australian residential structure.
Conceived within the Nineteen Fifties as an train in minimalist residing for an architect’s aged mother and father, the diamond-shaped Caldwell Home within the Melbourne suburb of Heathmont later proved itself startlingly adaptable as a house for the architect, his spouse and their three kids. It has remained a cherished household residence for seven subsequent many years.
Within the Seventies, Michael Dysart’s design for Wybalena Grove explored medium-density, community-minded housing as a welcome various to single dwellings. Fifty years on, its lasting reputation suggests how cooperative fashions may readily tackle present-day issues of housing affordability, social isolation and the necessity to dwell extra sustainably.