AT Small & Cool 2009

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Image from Bernard’s Light & Bright submission.

Do you have a small, cool place? Enter Apartment Therapy’s Small Cool 2009 contest for a chance to win from a pool of $10,000 in gift certificates from Room&Board.
Image from Bernard’s Light & Bright submission.

I love the grid-like tile of the exterior of this home by Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido.

The whole back of the house is wrapped in glass form floor to ceiling. The deck that extends to line up with the cantilever ceiling adds a lot of recreational space, where dinners “al fresco” could be an everyday affair. Designed by Bercy Chen Studio LP.

This house by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects is located on the edge of an escarpment in Kew within a significant landscape environment. The house provides substantial views overlooking the Yarra river and Studley park golf course and the primary living zone is provided on one level suspended above what was previously an existing Tennis court. The project received an RAIA residential Architecture award in 2004.

This home by Fox Johnston Architects is a re-build of a dilapidated 1950s beach house into a light filled home for a growing family.
Trying to keep the feel of the beach house concept: unpretentious and modest, yet allowing a greater connection to the garden and outdoor spaces while opening the views, letting in as much light as possible.


I can’t stop staring at this staircase. It’s just amazing. The whole house is amazing, but I’m particularly in love with these. See more at Trendir.
Photos by Roland Halbe.

A beautiful, one story home that looks more like a club house than a home… but maybe that’s a good thing! Very open spaces with polished floors that reflect the images that you can see thru the monumental floor to ceiling glass panels. The built-in concrete deck really expands the living area towards the outside where a reflective pool serves as a way to lower the temperature and, again, multiplying the views from the surroundings. Designed by Michael P. Johnson.