Sydney House | Cavill Architects

Sydney House is a masterful reworking of a modest postwar brick home in New Farm, celebrating the quiet legacy of masonry in Brisbane鈥檚 residential architecture. Responding to the original house鈥檚 distinctive character and prominent corner presence, the design retains interwar-modern features, including curved brick corners, cantilevered concrete hoods, and metal railings, while introducing a complementary rear pavilion that supports contemporary family life.

The new addition takes its cues from these original elements: curved geometries are reinterpreted to defined garden courtyards, and the bold language of the concrete hoods informed sculptural soffits and thresholds. A clear inversion of spatial logic redirects the previous inward movement through the house to one that unfolds around open-air rooms and landscaped voids. A subtle material inversion furthers this dialogue, with the render that was once internal now expressed externally.

Light, texture, and spatial layering define the home鈥檚 transformation, culminating in a serene main suite beneath a circular skylight and an artist鈥檚 studio-gallery at the threshold. Sydney House reimagines heritage through clarity, continuity, and a generous embrace of indoor鈥搊utdoor living.