From the Editor

For many of us, as the cooler weather sets in and the days get shorter, the appeal of spending time ensconced at home intensifies. The homes explored in this issue demonstrate the different ways architects and designers create opportunities for respite from the clamour of everyday life.

Always by Kennedy Nolan (cover and page 26) is a refuge from city life, where a richly layered interior devoid of harsh contrast achieves an atmosphere of comfort and welcome languor.

Also in this issue, we look at a number of homes that show how the imperfections of houses from past eras can be adapted to suit the demands of modern life. Examples include the Noosa Heads House by Vokes and Peters (page 54), a resourceful remaking of a suburban beach house; Cascade House by John Ellway Architect (page 18), a deliberately modest lean-to that resolves a Queenslander home’s lack of garden connection; and Bridge House by Kister Architects (page 88), which reimagines a Melbourne home with distinctive 1970s heritage to suit contemporary ways of living. I hope you enjoy the issue.

Alexa Kempton, editor

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01 Join us in Melbourne to celebrate the winners of the 2022 Houses Awards! We’ll be raising a glass to honour the best of this year’s Australian residential architecture and design. Winners will be announced at the Houses Awards on Friday 29 July at State Library Victoria. Tickets are on sale now. We hope to see you there! Image: SRG House by Studio Johnston, winner of the 2021 award for House in a Heritage Context. Photograph by Anson Smart. housesawards.com.au

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02 Experience the transformative installations made by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota in the largest solo exhibition of the artist’s work to date. Travelling to QAGOMA from the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, The Soul Trembles is a fascinating insight into Shiota’s process of constructing works from millions of fine threads, which the artist uses to express memories, anxiety, dreams and silence. At QAGOMA from 18 June until 3 October 2022. Artwork: Chiharu Shiota, installation view of Uncertain Journey 2016/2019, in The Soul Trembles at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019. Photograph: Sunhi Mang, courtesy of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. qagoma.qld.gov.au

03 Witness more than 70 artworks from the Tate’s national collection at ACMI this winter. Light: Works from Tate’s Collection features artworks that span 200 years of art history, from painting, photography and sculpture to installation and the moving image. The exhibition delves into the challenges of capturing the transience of light and shadow, and showcases how artists such as James Turrell, Tacita Dean and John Constable have captured or harnessed light in their work. At ACMI from 16 June until 13 November 2022. Image: Raemar, Blue, 1969, by James Turrell. Photograph: Chen Hao. acmi.net.au

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