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Hearth in the Well
Architects are often asked to play ‘musical chairs’ on houses that need to be refreshed to reflect today’s standards. For this home, there was no requirement to increase the envelope of the building; instead, the…
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LRA x TLP : Family Heritage
In collaboration with The Local Project we present Family Heritage – The Short Film, which explores the connection between the old and the new of a restored heritage home on Sydney’s North Shore. Luigi Rosselli, and Alice…
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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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LRA x TLP : Sandcastle
“A sonata by piano with four hands” The Local Project presents a glimpse behind the guarded walls of Sandcastle to reveal a cool, calm and inviting family home, infused with intriguing and playful detail, and imbued…
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Ladera, Bellevue Hill
Luigi Rosselli discusses Ladera, a six-storey, multi-residential project in the Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill. Meaning ‘hillside’, Ladera, commissioned by developer, MBW Pty Ltd, and built by Impero Constructions, is the non-identical twin of its…
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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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LRA x TLP : Pacific View Point
“I’ve been asked to build a place for peace.” Speaking to The Local Project team, Design Architect, Luigi Rosselli, and Interior Designer, Romaine Alwill of Alwill Interiors guide viewers through the influences and concepts that…
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A Perspective : Luigi Rosselli
In 2014, Giselle Rosselli and Tim Hart set out to document the creative process of Australian architect, Luigi Rosselli Shot in and around the old home of Luigi Rosselli Architects, a converted ‘flat iron’ warehouse…
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ODE Double Bay
This new mixed-use development of well-appointed apartments and commercial tenancies plays a key role in the renaissance of the Sydney suburb of Double Bay, pocketed in nature by the heritage conservations areas along Transvaal Avenue…
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Paddo Pool Terrace
One often learns history as the archaeological stratification of time, where layers refer to ages, from the most ancient to the most recent. In this terrace house in Paddington, the ‘layers’ are the four storeys…
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Giardino
Giardino (n) means garden in Italian, and il giardino (the garden) lies at the heart of the design concept for a forthcoming Luigi Rosselli Architects designed multi-residential project, located in a leafy street of Sydney’s…
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VIDA & ‘The Kent Road Collection’
Vida and Forma are two of a trio of small-scale apartment developments that sit side by side in a leafy enclave surrounded by one of the oldest golf courses in Australia and public parkland; an…
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FORMA & ‘The Kent Road Collection’
Vida and Forma are two of a trio of small-scale apartment developments that sit side by side in a leafy enclave surrounded by one of the oldest golf courses in Australia and public parkland; an…
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A Small Key to Open Doors
There is a well-known idiom that states ‘A(n English)man’s home is his castle’. It has its origins in a 1604 legal ruling made by English judge, Sir Edward Coke in which he declared ‘the house…
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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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Above Board Living
Where the land meets the sea the blue expanse of ocean and sky is a magnet for humanity, the Blue Planet Dwellers; this home, created for a family reaching maturity, with adult children and parents…
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Arch-Texture
It is not a coincidence that the word ‘Arch’ is found in both ‘Arch-itecture’ and ‘Arch-aic’.1 In recent times there has been a resurgence in the use of the ‘Arch’ in architectural forms throughout the…
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La Casa Rosa
‘La Casa Rosa’ portrayed from a different angle through the eyes of photographer Dianna Snape. Located in the Sydney beachside suburb of Bronte, the existing home possessed many of the traits of that late Victorian…
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New Junior Associates: Diana Yang & Lluis Molins Calvet
Congratulations to Diana Yang & Lluis Molins Calvet who have recently been promoted to Junior Associates at Luigi Rosselli Architects in recognition of their talent, hard work and dedication they have brought to our team….
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The Local Project presents ‘Pacific View Point’
‘Pacific View Point’ portrayed through the talented eyes of the team at ‘The Local Project’. “Colours and textures respond to the changing shades of the ocean, making this architectural home a place to contemplate the…
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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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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…
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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…
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“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…
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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…
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‘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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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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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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Belle Magazine Aug/Sep 2019 – Drawing Fire
Interview with Luigi Rosselli Further reading: Belle Magazine article Or discover more of the projects mentioned in the article: Homage to Oscar The Books House Tama’s Tee House The Beehive The Great Wall of WA…
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New Associate: Jane McNeill
Congratulations to Luigi Rosselli Architect, Jane McNeill, who has recently been promoted from Junior Associate to Associate in recognition of the talent, hard work and dedication she has brought to our team since joining us….
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New Junior Associate: Evan Howard
Congratulations to Luigi Rosselli Architect, Evan Howard, who has recently been appointed as a Junior Associate in recognition of the talent, hard work and dedication he has brought to our team since joining us. Evan…
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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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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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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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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
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Australian Financial Review
Life and Leisure Master of The House Author: Stephen Todd – Luigi Rosselli: the A-listers’ architect who works magic with Tipp-Ex and a pen Web: Australian Financial Review – Home Design Further Reading: Luigi Rosselli Architects – Beehive & …
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The New Australian Garden
Michael Bates Web: Bates Landscapes Further Reading: Michael Bates, Landscaper Extraordinaire’s New Book & Luigi Rosselli Architects – Bayview Avenue
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Garden
William Dangar – Wunulla Road Author:William Dangar Web: William Dangar Further Reading: Luigi Rosselli Architects – Wyuna Road
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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…
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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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New Associate: Nicola Ghirardi
Congratulations to Luigi Rosselli Architect, Nicola Ghirardi, who has recently been appointed as a Junior Associate in recognition of the talent, hard work and dedication he has brought to our team since joining us. Nicola…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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Best of Houzz 2016 awarded to Luigi Rosselli Architects
Luigi Rosselli Architects has won “Best Of Design” on Best of Houzz 2016, see below for a press release on the award and visit us on Houzz® for more. Press Release – Best of Houzz 2016…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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)…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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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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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