Interiors Archives - Luigi Rosselli Architects

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…