Palm Beach House
Residential
Location
Northern Beaches, Australia
Land
Kuring-gai
Type
Residential
Completion
2016
Size
310 sqm
This transformation of an existing waterfront holiday villa is a restrained approach to a traditional European vernacular, exploring bespoke quality detailing, materiality and architectural view framing.
The brief primarily explored reintroducing a higher quality of spatial resolution. Plans and volumes were rationalised around better circulation, vistas and minimalist landscaping. The design of the home as a holiday house meant that the open plan living space and garden were to become the central focus - a suitable indoor-outdoor transition being recognised as intrinsic to entertaining.
The pared back interiors and subdued palette create a ‘lived in’ atmosphere, an important element for the client to experience a sense of place and history. Fittings, finishes, lighting and claddings all express an artisan reference point, burnished in brass and open-grained timbers allow the home to be both new and established simultaneously.
Design Team
- Jeremy Bull Principal Architect
- Charlene Cong Principal Architect
- Jaime Bligh Interior Design
- Georgia Spence Interior Design
- Amber Gallen Interior Design
- Sophie Harris Interior Design
Build Team
- Lovett Custom Homes Construction
Awards
- 2016 Australian Interior Design Awards (AIDA) Residential Design shortlist
- 2017 Interior Design’s Best Of Year (BOY) Awards Beach House Category shortlist
- 2017 The International Design & Architecture Awards Luxury Residence Category shortlist
- 2017 The International Design & Architecture Awards Global Beach House Category winner
- 2017 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) Single Residential Category shortlist
- 2018 Australian Interior Design Awards (AIDA) Shortlist Residential Category
- 2018 Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards Best Residential Interior winner
Media
- EST - May 2017
- Vogue Living - June 2017
- EST - July 2017
- Elle Decoration UK - September 2017
- AD Spain - October 2017
- Urbis - November 2017
- Nuevo Estilo Spain - February 2018
- Revista Living Brazil - February 2018
- Belle - June 2018
- Archello - August 2018
- Kitchen Living Book Gestalten Publishing - February 2019
- Living Etc India - March 2019
- Marie Claire - March 2019
- House & Garden - March 2019
- Marie Claire Mexico and Latin America - July 2019
- Marie Claire Lifestyle Australia - October 2019
- Mustique Arquitectura - September 2020
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