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  • Upper Deck

    Growing tired of the commute to city offices from their home in a leafy northern suburb, once their youngest child left home our clients decided to relocate to an apartment in walking distance from not…

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  • Walter Liberty Vernon, Sydney architecture, Australian architecture, Neutral Bay, Neutral Bay homes, Neutral Bay architect, Neutral Bay architecture, dangar barin smith, danger barin smith landscaping, alwill interiors, alwill, outdoor furniture, outdoor furniture Australia, turquoise pool tiles, turquoise tiles, rammed earth, light coloured rammed earth, sandy rammed earth, inverted arch, white plantation shutters, glass pool rails, marble stepping stones, white window frames, sheer curtains, sheer white curtains, palm springs, two toned house facade, two toned house, two toned facade

    Family Heritage

    There is a perception that heritage houses are not family-friendly homes, that they are not easily adapted to the modern lifestyles of a young couple, their growing children and the grandparents, Family Heritage seeks to…

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  • Earth-Ship

    Architecturally, earthships form part of the discipline of adaptive reuse.  They embrace a style of architecture developed in the late 20th century, which aims to utilise both natural and upcycled materials to create passive, sustainable,…

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  • Sandcastle by luigi rosselli architects, raffaello rosselli architect, alwill interiors, dangar barin smith, sand castle, luigi rosselli raffaello rosselli, architects, architecture, interior design, australian architecture, australian design, light, landscape, brick architecture, sydney, point piper home, house luigi rosselli

    Sandcastle

    Located at the crest of a steep sand embankment, Sandcastle is built on a block many considered too difficult to build on; a forty-five-degree slope that presented a climb to reach the house even a…

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  • la casa rosa, luigi rosselli, luigi rosselli architects, pool, pink, flamingo, coloured concrete, brise soleil, roof tiles, recycled roof tiles, pink house, la casa rosa, casa rosa, luigi rosselli rosa, home design, home garden, curves, modern, arent & pyke, dangar barin smith

    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…

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  • 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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Luigi Rosselli Architects, Villanostalgia, Villa Nostalgia, Sydney architecture, Woollahra house, residential architecture, frameless glass balustrade, terraces, Woollahra architecture,

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli Architects, Sydney architecture, Bellevue Hills house, Woollahra house, residential architecture, frameless glass balustrade, terraces, Woollahra architecture

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli Architects, mediterranean classicism villa, entry stone stairs

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli Architects, Cantilever Awning, Entry Canopy, Concrete, Cantilever Structure, Curved Awning, Stone, Sandstone, Stepping Stone, Woollahra architecture, Sydney architecture

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli Architects, Rammed Earth Walls, Rammed Earth Chimney, Rammed Earth

    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….

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  • Luigi Rosselli Architects, Swimming Pool, Timber Bridge, Frameless Glass Pool Fencing, Frameless Glass, Timber Cladding, Concrete

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli designed Tamas Tee House Tamarama beach house with stone retaining wall, exposed off form concrete design, aluminium windows and custom concrete timber shutters

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Concrete, Sandstone, Garden, Mosman, timber garage door

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli Architects | The Triplex Apartments | Main Image

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli Architects | Bellevue Hill Californian Bungalow roof renovation sandstone fence, elliptical skylight steel windows

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Timber Shutters, Glass Balustrade, Rendered Brick, Brick

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Stone, Stone Cladding, Stone Wall, Timber Garage Door, Driveway, Timber Shutters

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli Architects | Bougainvillea Row House | Woollahra terrace house, Juliet balcony, timber french doors, bi-fold timber shutters

    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…

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  • Curved Terrace, Balconies, External adjustable louvres, Concrete

    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…

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  • Curved Sandstone Wall, Anodised Aluminium Adjustable Louvres, Palm Tree

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Queen Anne Style, Alterations and Additions, Renovated House

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Stone Walls, Hill Top Cottage, Cottage, Landscape, Rock, CNC Routed Plywood Shutters

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Beach House, Captain's Deck Balcony, Curves, Curved Awning, Steel Balustrade

    Beach House on Stilts

    High above the ground this cottage by the beach 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…

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  • Modern Light Filled Addition, Moat Swimming Pool, Frameless Glass Pool Fence, Luigi Rosselli, Glass Mosaic Pool Tiles, Lap Pool, Timber Shutters Sliding, Swimming Pool, Floating Building, Moat

    The Pool House

    The wraparound swimming pool plays the starring role in these alterations and additions and becomes the architectural pivot that binds one hundred years of history.   The organic two-storey pool house addition at the back of…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Dark Stained American Oak, White Exposed Timber Trusses, Glazed Sliding Doors, Dark Timber Flooring, Timber Shelving, TV Cabinetry, Curved Stair Steel Balustrade

    Balancing Home

    The best response to designing a home on a bland and anodyne site is to bring a suitcase of memories; familiar, traditional building forms that one feels comfortable with to provide a modern architecture that…

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  • Monolithic Base, Swimming Pool, Pitched Roof, Traditional Architecture, Timber Shutters

    Loggia in Arcadia

    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…

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  • Sydney Harbour Luigi Rosselli Architects, Luigi Rosselli, Large Balcony, Waterfront View, Skylight, Timber Deck

    Harbour Front-Row Seat

    It is quite rare, in Woollahra Council’s municipality, to have a  waterfront residence so close to the water.  One gets the feeling of being in Sydney Harbour when looking out of the over-sized wafer-thin framed…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Chimney, Unique Chimney, Western Red Cedar Garage, Cement Render, 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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Curved Facade, Curved Roof, Steel Windows, Front Lawn, Symmetrical House

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Concrete, Stone, House on Rock, Balcony, Modern Curved Balcony, Cliff Perched House

    Cliff Top House

    Perched on the top of a rock escarpment in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, overlooking Queens Park and Centennial Park, the cliff top house is an example of vertical living. Four storeys high, only to above the…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Cantilevered Hill Top House, Country Retreat, Concrete

    High Country House

    This hill top house is a concrete expression of Armidale ’s unique meeting of rural life and culture, “agri-culture”, a town with a university and many other cultural institutions. The clients seamlessly combine their flourishing…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Art Deco House, Architecture, Terrace, Alterations and Additions

    Paddington Terrace House

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Lift, Stair Handrail, Glass Brick Wall

    The Birdcage Lift Enquiry

    It began with a simple enquiry. “Can we have a bird cage lift?” And so with this addition at its core, a once unexceptional dwelling on Sydney Harbour was transformed into an extraordinary waterfront townhouse. By reconfiguring…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Cantilever House, Sandstone Cladding, Garage Door

    Quarterdeck House

    Located high on the shores of Little Bay, the Quarterdeck House is part of an award winning subdivision of land in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. The grounds on which the house is built belonged to a…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Landscape Design, Landscape Architecture, Lush Planting and Landscaping

    Library in Fernery

    Thousands of books in this parkside house were destroyed by a fire. Ravaged by smoke, water and burning embers, a rare Stuart piano was wheeled out just in time. Three years later the original “Art…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Fixed Awning, Heritage, Traditional House

    Heritage and Modernity

    This Woollahra house weaves the rich heritage character of an original Victorian house, with elements that are unashamedly contemporary. Stripped of years of accretions, the original house has been exposed and brought to the fore….

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  • Oculi House

    Heritage listing is not the only prerequisite to preserve and enhance an old charming house. Designed by William Hardy Wilson and built in 1927, the original house saw some alterations carried out in the 1960s…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Balcony, Bronte Beach, Swimming Pool, Swimming, Sandstone, Stone, Lawn, White, Concrete

    Balcony Over Bronte

    Black is back in the latest house to be completed by Luigi Rosselli Architects. This new house, built for a young family on a battle axe block overlooking Bronte, acts as a big balcony built…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Gordons Bay House, Cantilever, Offset Concrete Balconies, Off Form Exposed Concrete, Sandstone Base

    Gordons Bay House

    It’s said that 6 degrees separate each human on earth from another. The Gordons Bay House asks how 6 degrees of separation might negotiate a web of complex associations in order to produce an architecture…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Exposed Off Form Concrete, Textured Concrete, Curves, Volumes, Timber Shutters, Anodised Aluminum Shutters

    The Growing House

    Hastings Parade Better late than never! Ten years after it was designed, the Hastings Parade house is finally endowed with its third floor. Designed in 2007 and reduced to two storeys owing to the enforced…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, House Across the Water, Timber Shutters

    Lennox Street

    With these alterations and additions to an 1920’s Arts and Crafts residence in Mosman we sought to modernize a family home by providing more open, family-oriented spaces such as an eat-in kitchen, rumpus room, family…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Concrete, Stepped Balconies, Stone Garage, Timber Garage Door

    Benelong Apartments

    Benelong Crescent apartments are inspired by the sinuous forms of Erich Mendelsohn’s Einstein Tower in Potsdam, completed in the 1920’s. The apartments cascade down the hill to follow the contours and the curved terraced balconies…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Curved Architecture, Curves, Rammed Earth, Rammed Earth Walls

    Kirribilli House

    The brief was to provide a comfortable house.What makes a house comfortable? It’s not a question of good padding on the lounges but the ability of a building to provide a climatically comfortable environment, a…

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  • Curves, Thin Roof, Deck, Balcony, Waterfront View, Frameless Glass Balustrade

    Curraghbeena Road

    The L shaped contemporary addition to the Curraghbeena Road house in the Sydney suburb of Mosman embraces the core of the original building’s rooms over 3 storeys, opening the dwelling to the expansive iconic views…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Curved Windows, Curved Concrete

    Murra Murra Place

    Boasting one of the most scenic settings in Sydney, the site of Prince Henry at Little Bay is loaded with history.  Firstly as a significant aboriginal site; since the 1880’s an important coastal hospital with…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Slatted Timber Shutter, Shadows, Balcony, TImber Deck

    Fletcher Street

    Sandra and Scott’s young family have moved in to the four storey house placed on a ridge overlooking Bondi Beach.  The council allowed such a tall development because it did not appear to be taller than…

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  • Curved Bookshelf, Skylight, Library

    Wiston Gardens

    Professor Leslie Wilkinson’s domestic architecture is a bottomless source of surprises, discoveries and idiosyncrasies; his houses are complex, full of unexpected twists and turns.  The scale is human, comfortable and not rhetorical.  The owners were…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Timber Screens, Curved Glass, Curved Concrete, Curved Windows, Timber Roof

    Henry Street

    Located on the escarpment above Queens Park this new contemporary addition to the eclectic collection of residences aligned along the edge of the park greets you with its proud bow projecting into the front garden…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Timber Screens, Narrow Slim Thin Roof, Curved Glass, Curved Concrete, Timber Roof, Stained Timber Garage, Sandstone

    Carlton Street

    This suburban Sydney house is situated on a difficult southerly orientated site dominated by a two storey house to the north, and half a dozen adjoining backyards to the south. The issue of the orientation…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Integrated Landscaping, Backyard, Cabana, Pool House, Planter Box

    Wyuna Road

    The original house was renovated in the 1960s and from the outside, it looked like a red brick convent.  As it turned out, the 400mm thick walls concealed a partially polished jewel.  The original house featured an…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Bedroom, Rotating Door, Pivot Door, Rotating Screen, Joinery Detail, Dark Cabinetry

    Thornton street

    On the 17th floor of an apartment tower on the shores of Sydney Harbour, walls do not exist.  Windows and storage units are the main vertical surfaces interposed between the floor and the ceiling.  The storage units have…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Mt Minderoo, Landscape, Bush, Stone Wall, Natural Stone Wall, Architecture

    Mt. Minderoo

    Set behind a grove of trees, forming a ring around the summit of Mount Minderoo, the house is hidden from the surrounding properties and enjoys unrestricted views 180 degrees over unspoiled countryside and national park.  The…

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  • Fundamentally this house is a cube and we hollowed out the front section of the cube to recess the entrance. The skylight is a continuation of this concept, we excavated the middle of the cube to get light into the centre of the building.  Now, on a cloudy day in winter you get light all the way to the basement.  In this home, which is in a built-up inner-city beach suburb, we have employed straight walls along each boundary and introduced a series of curved and angled walls to manipulate and connect the internal spaces. The curved entrance wall, for example, links the home’s entrance to the breezy living space at the rear and delivers more privacy than the conventional shotgun hallway.  Another example is the wall to the left of the front door.  It is angled inward towards the centre of the house, giving the home’s entrance a sense of protection and greater privacy.  Similarly, a section of the wall at the back of the house is angled, opening up to the east to maximise the ocean view from the dining room (text by Anne Burton-Taylor). The house has been designed with passive solar principles and a chimney effect through its central void. Double glazing on the south side, venetians on the outside of the openings, make this house very comfortable throughout the year. Location: Bronte, NSWDesign Architect: Luigi RosselliProject Architect: Luigi RosselliStructural Consultant: Rooney & Bye, Charles BluntBuilder: Anderson Building ContractorsJoiner: A & S JoineryPhotography: Blain Crellin

    Hewlett Street

    Fundamentally this house is a cube and we hollowed out the front section of the cube to recess the entrance. The skylight is a continuation of this concept, we excavated the middle of the cube to…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Timber Handrail Balustrade, Curved Ceiling

    Martin Road

    Once a boarding house, the building rambled over most of the large site, a mélange of shabby additions under which was buried a once elegant structure.  The owners needed both a comfortable family home and a…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Skylight, Dining Room

    O’Connell Street

    Atop Sydney’s most important art deco skyscraper, two uncompromisingly modern residential apartments have been delicately inserted into the vacant plant rooms. 16 O’Connell Street was designed in 1938-40 by Bruce Dellit, architect of Hyde Park’s…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Timber Garage Door, Sandstone Wall, Roof Garden

    Trafalgar Street

    This house has been designed to relate to its natural context – big skies, swelling surf and steep sandstone cliffs – rather than be constrained by its dense urban surrounds.  Rising from its solid sandstone foundations,…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Timber Venetians, Swimming Pool, Pool, Concrete Soffit

    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…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Timber Screens, Timber Shutters, Sloped Lawn, Swimming Pool, Pool Fixed Awning

    Wallaroy Road

    An existing south-facing house has been replaced by a new dwelling that embraces the northern sun and light in this project in Woollahra.  Strong white-rendered formal elements are anchored onto a sandstone base, and the building…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Waterfront View, Waterfront Palazzo, Timber Deck

    Coolong Road

    Sydney Harbour is surrounded by a majority of large and dull waterfront houses.  Quantity prevails on quality. This house in Vaucluse was a typical example; it had 16 car spaces distributed in three garages and eight bathrooms,…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Covered Outdoor Area, Filtered Light

    Southern Highlands Homestead

    Set on a beautiful country property in the Southern Highlands, this project home has undergone a subtle transformation to bring it up to contemporary standards. The addition of a new entry and family room provides…

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  • Luigi Rosselli, Boat House, Timber Deck, Outback House

    Cottage Point

    The most interesting aspect of the house is the way it sits on the ground – heavily.  Instead of perching the house on wooden poles or slender steel columns, Luigi Rosselli enclosed the area beneath the…

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