The UK’s Architectural Review has announced the shortlist for its AR House Awards. Two Australian houses are among the 15 shortlisted projects.
Daylesford Longhouse by Partners Hill is one Australian shortlisted project. The house also won the 2019 Australian House of the Year and the 2019 Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New).
The building contains a home, a cooking school and a working farm, all housed within a 110 metre long shed.
“This is a masterful building that is clearly designed by an architect who has rehearsed the spatial sequencing puzzle of residential architecture many times,” writes Katelin Butler in a review.
Couldrey House by Australian architect Peter Besley and London studio HNNA is also shortlisted. Located in Bardon, Queensland, the house sits at the foothills of Mount Coot-tha. The house is characterized by a textured façade, made from think, long bricks with mortar spilling out of the joints, which give the appearance of corduroy.
The 2020 AR House Awards are judged by Anna Chavepayre (co-founder of Collectif Encore), Lisa Shell (founder of Lisa Shell Architects), and Ard de Vries (founder of Ard de Vries Architecten), all of whom have had projects shortlisted or commended in the awards in previous years.
The judges are looking for “ingenious and pioneering houses that seek to push the type forward.”
The winners and commended projects will be announced at the end of November.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
