The Beehive

Luigi Rosselli Architects, Surry Hills design studio – A collaboration with Raffaello Rosselli’s RdotR architectural studio Inserted between a century old brick warehouse and a row of Victorian terrace houses on what was once a…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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 …

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Wind Powers Rosselli Architects

The carbon footprint of Luigi Rosselli Architects has been progressively reduced to achieve a “neutral” certification. We are proud to say that, as a small carbon footprint business, we: –    Encourage use of public…

Better Homes and Gordons

Luigi Rosselli Architects recently completed house at Gordons Bay has been featured on Better Homes and Gardens.  Between an intriguing seafood lasagne and some sound advice of stopping draughts, the Gordons Bay house is shown…

Fire Places : A Home For Flame

If, as the old saying goes “the hearth is the heart of the home”, than what should we make of the recent radical transition in which the flickering fire, at the heart of domestic life,…

Stair Variations : An Ode to M.C.Escher

We take a step back to look at the catalogue of stairs designed by Luigi Rosselli Architects. Architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca relates the lesson of an old teacher in which he notes: “[T]he horizontal plane…

Building in Rammed Earth

This is an extract from a presentation given by Luigi in March at the 2012 Architectural Axis conference entitled “Kirribilli House: Ramming Comfort”. The presentation was intended for architects interested in rammed earth construction.   Natural cooling characteristics…

A New Scoop

Luigi Rosselli Architects latest venture into the culinary landscape sees the Venetian backdrop of George Pompei’s childhood transplanted into the eclectic surrounds of Bondi. Inspired by John Ruskin’s exploratory text The Stones of Venice, the design…

Rosselli Apartment Parkour, A Detour

At the newly completed Benelong Crescent apartments we launch into a physical text that explores the architectural form through a parkour dérive. The expression of the body follows the expression of the building.

Layers of History

Justin Alexander, photographer extraordinaire, has just shot our alterations and additions to an 1920’s Arts and Crafts residence in Mosman. We sought to modernize the family home by providing more open, family-oriented spaces such as…

After Images : Sketches for Japan

Luigi Rosselli is supporting the upcoming exhibition After Images at Boutwell Draper Gallery, in support of reconstruction in Japan after the recent natural disasters. “After Images is an exhibition and auction of sketches of Japan primarily…

Benelong Crescent Malleable Architecture

The newly completed 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…

A Bird’s Eye View on Luigi Rosselli Architects

We take to the air to look at a number of finished projects, and a few works in progress. Two recently completed projects on Sydney Harbour manage a sloping site with ocean views to different…

Bella Balla

Stefano Manfredi and Julie Manfredi Hughes have collaborated with Luigi Rosselli Pty Ltd to bring to life Stefano’s passion for the tradition of the authentic local osteria of Milan’s Navigli area and to redefine the…

Considerably Comfortable

Luigi Rosselli Architects objective to examine the relationship between human comfort and sustainability has been recognised with the Kirribilli house being awarded the 2011 NSW Australian Institute of Architects Housing Award for Sustainable Architecture. The…

Plunkett Street

Construction is underway on our project on Plunkett Street, Mosman. Set on a sloping site facing Balmoral with magnificent mature eucalypts, the design works with its dual frontage to produce architecture ‘in the round’.

Simon Hassall

We are pleased to announce that Simon Hassall has become the second Associate at Luigi Rosselli Architects. Simon joined Luigi Rosselli Architects in 2007,and brings to the new position his patience, attention to detail and…

Alexandra Donohoe

Luigi Rosselli Architects welcome Alexandra Donohoe as an in-house Interior Designer. Alexandra has over 10 years experience in interior design, having has worked with several of Sydney’s most notable design firms including Bates Smart, SJB,…

Luigi’s 4 ½ Minutes on Film

Luigi Rosselli Architects Curraghbeena Road house was recently featured on Fairfax Media’s Domain TV as part of their Amazing Homes series. Interviews with Luigi and the client, shed light on the key features of the…

Giurgola : The Reluctant Master

Luigi Rosselli was recently invited to speak at a symposium, organised by Melbourne University, honouring the life and work of Aldo Giurgola. Celebrated in Australia for his work on New Parliament House in Canberra, the…

Balla Rolls into Town

Luig Rosselli Architects are currently collaborating with Stefano and Julie Manfredi to bring to life Stefano’s passion for the tradition of the authentic local osteria of Milan’s Navigli area. Osteria Balla will redefine the meaning of that tradition…

Pilibara : The Dust Settles

The dust has begun to settle at the Pilbara as the frenzy of building work dies down and the finishing touches are applied to this homestead – one of the first stations built in the…

Rewards and Awards

It is very rewarding after long and often difficult working relationships with Council to find ones efforts awarded during the annual awards season. Congratulations are in order for the architects that scooped up prizes at…

Civic Pride in Waverley

Luigi Rosselli Architects have been awarded the Waverley Council 2011 Civic Pride Award for the Fletcher St house in Tamarama. The Civic Pride Award recognises and promotes heritage conservation and outstanding contemporary design. Congratulations are…

Pilbara Station Scrubs Up

Work is proceeding at speed on this Station at the Pilbara. One of the most ambitious projects yet, the final stages of the project are being completed and the finishing touches applied.  

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