Reference Designs

Curated Australian residential precedents

Browse the seeded reference-design dataset by state, style, firm, residential type, and award provenance.

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Heide II / Heide Modern
1968
6 images
McGlashan Everist

Heide II / Heide Modern

Bulleen, VIC
late modernismmuseum house

Significant not only as a house, but as a fusion of modernist domestic architecture, art patronage and museum culture.

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Walsh Street House (Boyd House II)
1958
5 images
Robin Boyd

Walsh Street House (Boyd House II)

South Yarra, VIC
courtyard planningmid-century modernism

One of the best-known houses in Australian architectural history: technically inventive, inward-looking, and deeply influential in its courtyard planning and indoor-outdoor spatial model.

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Camberwell House
10 images
Clare Cousins Architects

Camberwell House

Camberwell, VIC
contemporaryheritage-responsive

Contextually responsive intergenerational home that reinterprets traditional forms through courtyards, masonry walls, and a central timber volume.

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