The brief architect Neil Cownie received from his new clients was short and sweet. “We want a grey concrete house,” they said. And that’s exactly what Neil delivered. The house champions beautiful modern concrete lines, but there’s so much more to this home. “I could have given them just that but they wouldn’t have been happy,” he says of the multi-award-winning finished project.
The family had chosen a block in a beachside suburb that was rich in modernist history. “They happily informed me they had found a north-facing site to buy. But due north faces the street, so we had to work around that,” Neil explains.
When the family moved in, the house worked as a great entrée into the local community. When their daughter started at the local school,…
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NEXT (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2019