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Alterations & Additions

What’s Within With.It House?

Bangkok-based practice BodinChapa Architects has transformed the once-stifling spaces of With.It House into ones that stimulate its residents’ lives, energies, and activities.

Neeson Murcutt Reframes The Past

Being a good neighbour doesn’t mean not being able to enjoy your privacy, as this house in Sydney’s beachside Bronte demonstrates.

Coastal Comfort In Brighton House

Brighton House by Rob Kennon Architects is a beach house that avoids coastal clichés in favour of streamlined place-making and robust detailing.

Two Houses Become One

To find a terrace house any larger than small is a hard task, to find two side-by-side is harder still. But the clients of Rae House by Austin Maynard Architects had just such luck.

Dan Gayfer Design Reimagines A Dairy

Dan Gayfer and his clients were passionate about integrating a 125-year-old former dairy at the rear of their Footscray property into their house’s new extension.

Taking The Corner Takes The Cake

Residents of King George House in East Freo, Perth, by Robeson Architects enjoy the confluence of commercial and contemporary in this bold design.

Peekaboo, We See You

Behind a modest Californian Bungalow in Victoria, a contemporary extension by Native Design Workshop is barely visible.