July 21st, 2018
Binary House has received a great feature in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Domain magazine ‘Innovation’ column entitled “Seeing the value in clever design”. Many thanks to Jenny Brown’s beautiful words.
The feature has also been published at Domain online entitled “Binary House: The asymmetrical beauty created on a stringent budget”.
June 22nd, 2018
Planning approval was recently received for Manifold House in Dover Heights. It was designed in mid-2017, further developed and then submitted late last year - followed by a long assessment period inclusive of a referral to the WLPP.
It entails minor alterations and a highly considered addition which crafts multiple new connections to its setting, while inventively enhancing the amenity of the existing dwelling.
April 20th, 2018
It’s very exciting to share that Binary House has been shortlisted as a national finalist in the 2018 Houses Awards, ‘House Alteration and Addition over 200 square metres’ category.
March 6th, 2018
Images of the recently completed Binary House have been selected and can now be seen in the ‘Projects’ section of the website. My clients (and Ian the dog) are enjoying their new home, and we all think it looks great following an epic 4.5 year end-to-end process.
January 19th, 2018
Designed in mid-2016, this new house located along the edge of the Cooks River is forecast to start on site soon. It has worked its way through design development, planning approvals and construction documentation stages, as well as a now-complete demolition stage of the former conditions on site.
January 13th, 2018
Binary House was completed on site last week and has now been professionally photographed by Brett Boardman. These are preview images from our photoshoot. Stay tuned for more images to come.
October 29th, 2017
Binary House reached a stage of completion to enable my clients to begin settling into their home. Some incomplete exterior and interior detail work still to be done on site has now commenced, inclusive of rear and front landscaping, while a list of defects rectifications is also underway.
August 14th, 2017
Visualisations of Starling House have been uploaded in ‘Projects’. The proposal for a young family entails a new two-storey house on an inner-suburban site in Lilyfield. Its formal composition to the street and rear is a uniquely crafted and direct response to setback and building height plane controls to inventively accommodate the client’s brief over both levels.
July 20th, 2017
Unfurled House continues to receive great coverage with a recent feature story published by Houzz entitled “A Home Unfurls to Embrace the Landscape”.
June 1st, 2017
Hird Behan House has been published in Houses, “Australia’s leading residential architecture magazine for designers and their clients”. The ‘First House’ segment provided a moment to reflect upon the project and the part it played along a journey to establishing my own practice.
March 15th, 2017
It’s very exciting to share that Unfurled House has been shortlisted as one of five worldwide finalists in the 2017 Architizer A+ Awards ‘Residential Interiors’ category.
February 14th, 2017
It is an honour to have been selected as a juror by the Awards committee for the 2017 NSW Architecture Awards for Residential Architecture - Houses (New) and Houses (Alterations & Additions).
February 2nd, 2017
Following its 2016 AIA Architecture Award for Residential Architecture-Houses, Unfurled House has been featured in a snippet entitled “Architecture Shorts” in Grand Designs Australia magazine Issue 061.
November 23rd, 2016
Christopher Polly was invited by Green magazine editor Tamsin O’Neill to write a piece on a favourite, inspiring example of residential architecture. The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut is the seminal mid-century house designed by Philip Johnson in 1949, considered one of the great works of modern architecture. It is featured in the November/December 2016 Issue 52 edition of the magazine. Photography by Robin Hill.
November 10th, 2016
It’s gratifying to see that Unfurled House has been incorporated in the NSW Planning & Environment ‘Draft Medium Density Design Guide’ as a design standard exemplar for private open space.
