La Casa Rosa

Under the reign of Queen Victoria, the residential architecture of the British colonies was immersed in a nostalgic and late romantic borrowing of gothic architecture in its idealised interpretations of John Ruskin’s essay, The Seven…

The Beehive – Terracotta Transformation

“In a small commercial building in Surry Hills, Raffaello and Luigi Rosselli have gone to extraordinary lenghts to reimagine the ubiquitous terracotta roof tile as something far from ordinary.” Design Architect: Raffaello Rosselli Studio Project Architect: Raffaello…

Bondi Bombora

A “Bombora” is an indigenous Australian term, possibly with its origin in the ‘Dharuk’ language spoken in the Sydney region, to describe a wave breaking over a shallow reef or sandbank that has been adopted…

Ladera launches in Bellevue Hill

New six storey residential building currently under construction in Bellevue Hill. ‘Ladera’ presents the artistry of Luigi Rosselli Architects set against the backdrop of breathtaking Sydney Harbour views. Its cascading large terraces follow the contours…

“Master of the house”

The architect Luigi Rosselli has designed homes for mining magnates, famous sports people, the CEOs of three major banks in Australia and high achievers of all kinds. “Even penniless journalists and artists,” Rosselli chuckles during…

Timeless Consular Belt Residence (Revisited)

Designed twenty years ago and characterised by delicately sculpted, curving white walls, a stone base to anchor the structure to the ground and light, sharp edges roof eaves floating above shaded timber windows, this timeless…

New LRA team member: Isabelle Cornet

Yet another great talent joins the LRA team, Isabelle Cornet has been around the world, from building a house featured in “Mission Impossible 5” in Morocco to highly awarded and published small scale city interventions…

‘Pointe Living’

As slender & gracious as a ballet dancer hovering over Edgecliff, ‘Pointe Living’ is elevated above the iconic Sydney Harbour. Shaped with rough rendered walls, curved glass balustrades and double edge concrete beams, this will…

‘The two of us’

Interview with Architects Luigi & Raffaello Rosselli You can read the full interview here: Sparkkle  To discover more of the projects mentioned in the article: The Beehive Homage to Oscar The Great Wall of WA…

La Fiamma

Towards the end of 2019, Luigi spoke with journalist, Ferdinando Manzo of the Sydney published, Italian language newspaper, La Fiamma, which was established in 1947 to provide news to the growing Italio-Australian migrant community.  You…

Pacific View Point

Docked into the steep rocky strata of the Pacific Ocean coast, this home in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs is a place for contemplation; a place to observe and absorb the shimmer of the water, each fold…

Villa Nostalgia

Powerful sandstone foundations, a perfectly proportioned loggia with triple arches, and vast gardens, “Villa Nostalgia” is an elegant and gracefully aged villa located in Woollahra’s “consular belt”. In what was quite an interesting match, the…

Hill House

Sydney’s Dress Circle Designed on a steep site, located just below the summit of Bellevue Hill, this substantial residence has been endowed with an eagle’s nest panorama. The harbour is Sydney’s stage set and here…

Peppertree Villa

Pepping Up Late 1920s Classicism At the summit of Bellevue Hill a centennial Peppertree rises over the skyline; two homes lie beneath its vast canopy. To one side of the fence, The Oculi House and…

Homage to Oscar

The Heritage of Modernism Sometimes alterations and additions can amount to significant interventions to breathe new life into a building, occasionally they require only the lightest touch to reinvigorate an existing design, as was the…

Architecture En Terre D’Aujourd’Hui (Today’s Earthen Architecture)

The Great Wall of WA 230 Metres of Rammed Earth Wall Photography: Edward Birch Web: Architecture En Terre D’Aujourd’Hui Further reading: Luigi Rosselli Architects – The Great Wall of WA – 230 Metres of Rammed Earth Wall

Earth, Wind and Fire

The Village House Earth is one of the oldest construction materials known to man; it can be fired, as with bricks and tiles, or used in its raw state as with adobe or rammed earth….

Bridge Building

Water is a precious element in residential architecture, almost an essential element for happiness. In Islamic architecture, water is used as a balm to restless minds and is often found in psychiatric hospitals. This justifies…

The Beehive

Luigi Rosselli Architects, Surry Hills design studio – A collaboration with Raffaello Rosselli Studio Inserted between a century-old brick warehouse and a row of Victorian terrace houses on what was once a small carpark, the…

Tama’s Tee House

A Coastal Concrete Unipod ‘Tama’ is short for Tamarama: a Sydney beach suburb, famous for its hedonistic surf culture, gradually being gentrified by a population that exchanges stock market tips while running barefoot to the…

The Books House

A Calligrapher handed three books to his wife, she placed them in a random stack on the table… “We want The Books House”… they said. The Architect understood that the books were not only a…

The Triplex Apartments

Stepped Residences in Bellevue Hill It’s not often that a council constraint is as welcome as Woollahra Council’s residential apartment building height code, which forces all units built on sloping sites such as Bellevue Hill…

A New Look

The Bayview Avenue House The seminal work that consolidated the fluid lines of Luigi Rosselli Architects in the new century was this Bayview Avenue, Mosman house. Fifteen years on it has been revisited and rephotographed…

Raise the Roof

Going Up in Bellevue Hill We all aim for the top, including in our homes; we like the breeze, the view, and the light that comes with altitude.  Attic additions, new first floor additions, loft…

Michael Bates, Landscaper Extraordinaire’s New Book

The New Australian Garden: Landscapes for Living Written by longtime Luigi Rosselli Architects collaborator, Michael Bates of Bates Landscape Services, this new book explores eighteen gardens constructed by Michael, including a garden designed by Vladimir…

The New Twin Peaks

Sydney’s ultimate trees are fine Port Jackson Figs.  The pachyderms of the vegetal reign: fruit bearing, with dark glossy leaves and populated by many bird and bat colonies, they form the backdrop to “the new…

Sticks & Stones Home

Hunters Hill is an attractive, historic peninsula that lies between the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers on the north shore of Sydney Harbour.  The suburb, a precursor to the Garden City movement, was subdivided in…

The Best of Luigi Rosselli Architects 2016

Awards, architects, projects and reinvention.   International Awards The Great Wall of WA Luigi Rosselli Architects have been awarded three international awards for the project: The TERRA ‘earthen architecture’ prize, Archdaily “Building of The Year…

Bougainvillea Row House

Architecture, the Director’s Cut Sydney’s planners are considering the return of the terraced house, or row house, as a favoured residential building type. It is believed the terrace could be one solution to addressing housing…

Duplex and The City

Urban Living: a Dwelling with Two Apartments in Sydney Equivalent to the brownstones of New York, this interwar duplex is a humane scale solution to housing in the Sydney city fringes. Shoulder to shoulder with…

Martello Tower Home

A Sandstone Coastal Lookout Situated on the highest point of a ridge overlooking Sydney’s Middle Harbour is a solid, 3 storey brick house built during the between the late 1950s and early 1960s, which has…

The Great Wall of WA wins TERRA ‘earthen architecture’ prize.

” Under the chair of 2012 Pritzker architecture prize laureate, Wang Shu, the jury of the TERRA Award selected the winners of this prize, the first of its kind dedicated to recognising excellence the field…

Renewal of a Power Station

From Coal to Renewables and People Power The disused power Station at White Bay is a grand industrial cathedral that stands as a gateway to Sydney when one approaches from the west. Adjoining Sydney Harbour’s…

High Rise Living in Melbourne

Poised between the leafy boulevard of St Kilda Road and the lush, green expanse of Fawkner Park, the latest apartment tower design from Luigi Rosselli Architects seeks to introduce some sensual Sydney style to the…

Twin Peaks

A Queen Anne style residence reveals its hidden character and history in the late night lights.  Two crisp zinc roof gables, observing the shadows on the narrow footpath, guard the new entry door. The early…

Hill Top Cottage

Weaving architectural heritage with contemporary design and lifestyle is a practice that rewards with surprises and character filled places. In a conservative residential pocket close to North Sydney, a workers cottage perches on top of…

The Bow Window Penthouse

Flying High Over Bondi In a first for Luigi Rosselli Architects the camera has left the ground to pan over the penthouse additions to a classic Art Deco style apartment block built in the late…

The Great Wall of WA named ArchDaily Building of the Year

The Great Wall of WA has been voted ArchDaily “Building of the Year 2016” in the housing category by users the website, which world’s most visited architecture portal. The Great Wall of WA represents a…

20 Most Popular Projects of 2015 on Archdaily

The Great Wall Reaches Great Heights Luigi Rosselli Architects were delighted to learn recently that the Great Wall of WA project made it into the Archdaily 20 most popular projects of 2015.   The practice…

Beach House on Stilts [preview]

High above the ground this beach house cottage is secure from any rise in sea level and is now the restful retreat of a cultured couple.  Above the existing bungalow a new first floor was…

The Best of Luigi Rosselli Architects: Waterfront Palazzo Eleven Years On

Like a good wine good houses age well, improving with the passing of the years.  When compared to the original photographs, taken by Richard Glover in 2004 [ Coolong Road 11 Years Ago ] , the recent…

Australian House & Garden’s Top Room of the Year Awarded to Alexandra

Romaine’s Room is #2 on Homes to Love and Luigi Pencils On Rooms and pencils are the main tools of architecture, and this week, two rooms and an article on pencil drawings have captured the…

The Great Wall of WA [preview]

230 Metres of Rammed Earth Wall The longest rammed earth wall in Australia and – probably – the southern hemisphere, has been selected as a finalist in the (Australian Institute of Architects) Western Australia architecture…

Loggia in Arcadia [preview]

Arcadia is a mythological place of peace and pastoral happiness, and one can find a Victorian villa named Arcadia in a tranquil street in the suburb of Paddington, on the city fringes of Sydney and…

A Paper Arch to Celebrate 30 Years of Luigi Rosselli Sketches

A Sydney gallery is hosting the installations of an ephemeral and minimal structure to display hundreds of yellow trace paper architect’s sketches drawn by Luigi Rosselli in the last thirty years.  The structure was constructed…

A ‘Paper Arch’ Of Concept Sketches

Perspectives 30 Years of Sketches by Luigi Rosselli Architect Now available to purchase from the following Sydney bookshops: Architext Sydney, 3 Manning Street, Potts Point  (02) 9356 2022   www.architext.com.au Abbey’s Bookshop, 131 York Street, Sydney  (02)…

Harbour Front-Row Seat [preview]

This adaptive reuse of a waterfront residence is evidence that not all Sydney Harbour houses have no books or art on their walls, as Melbournians sometimes suggest, because of the magnificent views. More images and…

Living in Style – Architecture and Interiors

By Chris van Uffelen Published by Braun Living In Style, January 2015, pp.90-93

The Best Of Luigi Rosselli Architects: Hawkesbury River House, 25 Years Later

Better known as the INXS house, it was built on a Hawkesbury River escarpment north of Sydney, in the wilderness of a national park.  While the rock star owner was playing at Wembley Stadium in…

Sydney’s Latest Residential Towers’ Designs Unveiled

Two recent projects of high rise apartment buildings have been a logical segue from Luigi Rosselli Architects’ successful smaller scale residential designs. The first design is of a 40 storey apartment tower at the corner of…

The Subiaco Oval Is Completed

Luigi Rosselli Architects first completed house in Perth, but not the first in Western Australia, is based on the courtyard building type.  A secret garden (horto conclusus)  is surrounded by a contemporary elliptical oval verandah. …

Brasil “World Cup Publication” – Decor – Rural Chic

Decor (Brasil), July 2014, pp.160-166.

The Best of Concrete: Grey Matter

Luigi Rosselli Architects have applied a lot of thought to grey matter over the years: off-form concrete, cement toppings, polished concrete, precast, glass reinforced; concrete is a material of many forms.  In-situ cast off-form concrete…

Chimney by The Beach – Ten Years Later

The first of a series of rediscoveries of earlier Luigi Rosselli Architects designs, Chimney by the Beach is a house built on Tamarama Beach in Waverley, on a ridge with views of the ocean, a…

The First House

100 Cammeray Road Designed nearly thirty years ago for pivotal INXS musician , Kirk Pengilly, this house is the result of substantial alterations and additions to a 1940s duplex with a most austere and predictable…

Rammed Earth Library in Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia

High Country House

Just completed, this modern hilltop “homestead” is located at the peak of a cattle property. An expression of the meeting of rural life and culture unique to the country town of Armidale.

Libraries and Study Designs

The library is an important space in Luigi Rosselli houses as a room designed to stimulate thinking and over the years of designing, terrace houses, cottages and grand residences, the library and study have been…

Paddo to Palmy – Citizens of the World Interview

The Paddington terrace for Heidi Correa has been published on Dominic Loneragan and Meghan Mctavish’s wonderful project website and blog, Citizens Of The World. Visit http://bit.ly/1bEP02B for great photos and a video.

Sydney Cliff Top House Nears Completion

Set in the back streets of Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, perched atop a cliff, Luigi Rosselli Architects’ best project of the year is nearing completion one month before contract date. Although Waverley Council is well known for its…

Heritage and Conservation : A Modern Approach

An intimate interview, on the prevailing and out-dated approaches to heritage and conservation.   Luigi discusses his non-conforming, playful, organic approach in finding the values and characters in old buildings and their organic growth in their…

Design Spring in Perth, Western Australia

Subiaco House – A new house currently under construction amongst the picturesque peppermint trees of Subiaco, an inner suburb or Perth. Set in a historically distinctive streetscape, the house was conceived as a series of…

Six Degrees of Separation

Habitus, Issue 20, July/September 2013, pp.130-142.

Paddington Terrace House Lights Up

A designer would find oneself dancing to a familiar tune when approached to upgrade this terrace house in Paddington, a suburb east of Sydney City. Faced with the age old problems presented by much loved…

Shades and Awnings : Open Architecture

As we get into the cooler months, we are looking back wistfully at hot summer days with life spent outdoors, and shed some light on some of our sunshades and awnings. In so many of…

Global Roaming

Madison, Issue 100, June 2013, pp.176-9.

Councils ♥ Architecture

It is awards season and councils show their positive thinking by inviting architects to enter their design awards. The awards are a good way for an architect to have their work respected and recognised by…

Paddo to Palmy

Our client Heidi has documented the construction of her Paddington terrace on her wonderful blog www.paddotopalmy.com.au!

Reviving Great Houses From The Past

Reviving Great Houses From The Past, Images Publishing, 2012, pp. 164-179.

A Perspective : Luigi Rosselli

A visual documentary on the creative process of Australian architect, Luigi Rosselli and his approach to drawing as a primary medium for design. Shot in Surry Hills, Sydney, the film shows a proposed schematic for…

Swimming Pools and Architecture

In keen anticipation of summer we wade in to a selection of swimming pools, built or otherwise from projects spanning the last 25 years. Swimming pools have long littered the Australian landscape, and feature prominently…

Mud World

Financial Times, October 9, 2012.

Modern Lux Housing

Modern Lux Housing, Sandu Publishing, 2012, pp. 156-161.

Icons of Icons

ICONS OF ICONS In honour of Australia’s holiest of architectural holies, architect Dale Jones-Evans has curated a series of Byzantine ‘icon’ portraits – ahh, sorry wrong exhibition… ICONS BY ICONS In celebration of some of Australia’s most…

Venice By The Beach

InDesign, Issue 49, 2012, pp. 158-160.