At a time when the country faced a once-in-a-generation housing crisis, projects that demonstrate new and innovative ways of providing small, sustainable housing have been honoured.
Small, sustainable homes using unloved tiles, imperfect bricks other architects rejected and products from a local Bunnings have won this year’s top architecture prizes for best new houses.
Haddow’s home built on a 30-square-metre scrap of forgotten land “cast off the tired notion of what a city home should look like”.The facade used broken bricks left over from Phoenix Central Park by Wardle and Durbach Block Jaggers. The bathroom’s marble and tiles were a bargain, Haddow told theTrying something new was liberating, the jury said. “We’re left … to create homes that are highly functional, whimsical and utterly full of joy, both inside and out.
The renewal won two name awards, the highest in each category – The Emil Sodersten Award for Interior Architecture and The Lachlan Macquarie Award for Heritage. “We need to build well and also need to build smaller,” she said, acknowledging that bigger families needed more space. “If you are a couple then don’t build a four-bedroom house. Just build a really beautiful one or two-bedroom house.”
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