Living Edge
171 Robertson Street
Fortitude Valley Brisbane Qld 4006
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This edition of Our Houses invites the outside in with projects that demonstrate thoughtful integration of home and garden. Learn from the architects and clients behind two homes in which the natural environment is central to everyday living.
Dominic Finlay-Jones, director of DFJ Architects, will present Coolamon House alongside his client, Ray Bashford. Nestled in the Byron Bay hinterland, this multigenerational retreat folds around a courtyard, blurring the boundaries between internal and external living.
Zuzana Kovar and Nicholas Skepper, founders of Zuzana and Nicholas Architects, will share the story behind Annerley House, joined by their client Tamsin Cull. Through visual connections to the garden and clever additions, this cottage in the suburbs of Brisbane is pragmatic and delightful in equal measure.
Dominic is an architect and founding director of DFJ Architects, based in Byron Bay. He studied architecture at the University of Sydney before spending eight years training under pioneering modernist architect Bruce Rickard. Rickard’s legacy of human-scale architecture and sensitive site planning, orientation and landscape integration continues to underpin Dominic’s practice.
After relocating to the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Dominic established DFJ Architects in 2010, growing the studio into one of the region’s leading architectural practices.
Born and educated in Sydney, Ray Bashford spent the majority of his life working for international media and communications companies. He has lived overseas for more than 40 years, in London and Hong Kong, while travelling extensively for work.
Art and design have remained an abiding interest, with architecture developing a focus as the construction of a family house became a reality when Ray returned to Australia six years ago.
Zuzana Kovar and Nicholas Skepper established Zuzana and Nicholas in 2013 as a multidisciplinary practice that engages in architecture, arts practice, architectural research and education.
The practice has been recognised for exemplary work in residential architecture, particularly for sensitive adaptations, renovations, and extensions to traditional housing.
Tamsin Cull has worked in art museum audience engagement for more than 20 years. She is currently head of public engagement at the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, where she leads the Children’s Art Centre, Public Programs and Members teams.
As a keen gardener and a renovator of two inner-city Brisbane workers’ cottages, she has an interest in the way design can transform a home – opening it up to the outdoors and enhancing connection to the neighbourhood – while retaining original character.
