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Individual houses, shaped by your land and your life.

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New Farm Residence

Additions to a house to convert it into a fun and pleasurable living environment.

Gray Road House, Hill End

The renovation of a cute workers cottage and addition of an ultramodern cube that is linked by a bridge.

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The Zen House
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Welcome

I design houses that are a pleasure to live in, and that respond to how the light moves across the land, where the breeze comes from, and how the people who will live there like to spend an ordinary day. Neither the land nor the people are ever the same twice, so each house is an exploration of something new, a leap into the unknown.

 

The result is often a subtle, quiet architecture, rich in texture and detail, made to be noticed slowly. The surprises come gradually, in light that arrives where you did not expect it and in materials that transform gracefully with the hours and the years.

 

I trained as a carpenter and cabinet maker before following my love of architecture. A great design balances all the aspirations and constraints that bear on a project, and each project evolves through drawing and conversation, shaped by the owners and by the land.

 

The houses here look very different from one another. A classic timber Queenslander stands in dialogue with a metal cube. A house in New Farm draws on the patterns that run through the art of its owners. A family home in Paddington takes its spirit from the 1960s. Each reflects the spirit and identity of the people who live in it.

 

If you have land, a home or studio to build, or a dream or project waiting to take shape, I would like to hear about it.

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Paddington House Brisbane urban mid century modern design with mural wall

The brief: to create a family home reminiscent of the bold, fresh adventurous spirit of 1960’s homes with a hint of urban industrial edge, in keeping with the inner city location.

Paddington House
Virginia Home Hawthorne Brisbane in Australian Hamptons style to create welcoming home
Virginia House, Hawthorne

The brief was for `a welcoming, friendly home in the style of an American timber house’.

 

In close collaboration with our client we achieved an open layout of flowing spaces whilst the architectural style of the house engages consistently with a modern and perhaps Australian interpretation of the Hamptons style.

Town Houses, Wilston, Brisbane, unique design
Kedron Brook Houses, Wilston

The city grows and rejuvenates and this was the third time this land was improved; first farmland, then a typical Queenslander, the timber and tin vernacular of Brisbane, and now three houses. But links to the past are still evident.

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Architects Office Morningside Brisbane Ben Thomas Studio

Ben Thomas Architects

34 Windemere Avenue,

Morningside, QLD 4170 

Australia

 

info@benthomas-architects.com

 

Tel: +61 432 926 586

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ABN:99 262 278 561

Registered with the Board of Architects QLD

Member of the ASPG

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