Curated Australian residential precedents

National Heritage–listed mansion and pleasure garden; main house designed by Joseph Reed of Reed & Barnes (1864–1868) for Frederick Sargood.

Charred jarrah addition shadowing a circa-1900 weatherboard cottage (Grotto Studio, Perth).

Regency villa by John Verge (1835–1839); one of Australia’s finest colonial town houses, now a house museum.

Gothic revival rural estate and house museum; evolved from William Charles Wentworth’s 1803 cottage to a major 19th-century mansion and garden.

Compact urban house with sculptural brick massing by Alexander Symes.

Limestone-walled garden sanctuary in the foothills above Merewether, Newcastle (Anthony St John Parsons).

Contemporary infill/extension in inner Melbourne by Lovell Burton.

Bold concrete townhouse infill on a Surry Hills–adjacent lane; Smart Design Studio.

Picasso-inspired plan on a Dover Heights cliff; cantilevered living spaces over the Pacific (Durbach Block Jaggers).

Radical renovation retaining mid-century bones; new timber cloak and atrium (Trias).