Monogram by Nexus Designs

Nexus Designs collaborate with EMArchitects to transform a Victorian terrace house in an inner-city Melbourne suburb.

Design studio Nexus Designs were contacted for the interior fit-out of a home in Albert Park, Melbourne while the EMArchitects’s architectural intervention was well underway. With a modern extension at the rear of the heritage home, Nexus Design’s approach to the interior was simple and unified, restricting the number of finishes to honour the home’s old status. 

By focusing on a restrained colour palette, EMArchitects and Nexus Designs have designed a practical and modern family home that respects the building’s history.

The kitchen features premium Siemens appliances.

The iconic Le Corbusier No. B9 Chair by Thonet.

Painted white, internal brick walls are visible in extension of the house, celebrating the transition from old to new. The kitchen and dining space are highlighted with an expansive window and in-built window seat. Facing north onto the lush terrace courtyard, it was vital that the rear of the home maximised the influx of natural light.

Although small, the home cleverly integrates storage solutions, with built-in cabinetry framing various spaces in the home. Set along the back wall, the minimalist kitchen efficiently saves space with its integrated appliances and unique layout. Upstairs, stained black floorboards are paired with crisp walls; their classic skirting boards and architraves a juxtaposing feature from the new floor below.

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B&B Italia Bend Sofa from Space Furniture.

While the interior selection is clean and uncomplicated, it was crucial that the terrace still embodied a sense of warmth that is necessary for a family home. Achieved through the gentle layering of materials, the home focuses on embracing the pre-existing nature of the building. As with the entire home, the bathroom maintains a simplistic elegance with concealed cabinetry and unassuming fixtures.

Nexus Designs and EMArchitects have acknowledged the architectural heritage and natural charm found within the home, demonstrating the understated beauty of less is more.

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Montague by Nexus Designs

Nexus Designs collaborate with EMArchitects to transform a Victorian terrace house in an inner-city Melbourne suburb.

Design studio Nexus Designs were contacted for the interior fit-out of a home in Albert Park, Melbourne while the EMArchitects’s architectural intervention was well underway. With a modern extension at the rear of the heritage home, Nexus Design’s approach to the interior was simple and unified, restricting the number of finishes to honour the home’s old status. 

By focusing on a restrained colour palette, EMArchitects and Nexus Designs have designed a practical and modern family home that respects the building’s history.

The iconic Le Corbusier No. B9 Chair by Thonet.

Painted white, internal brick walls are visible in extension of the house, celebrating the transition from old to new. The kitchen and dining space are highlighted with an expansive window and in-built window seat. Facing north onto the lush terrace courtyard, it was vital that the rear of the home maximised the influx of natural light.

Although small, the home cleverly integrates storage solutions, with built-in cabinetry framing various spaces in the home. Set along the back wall, the minimalist kitchen efficiently saves space with its integrated appliances and unique layout. Upstairs, stained black floorboards are paired with crisp walls; their classic skirting boards and architraves a juxtaposing feature from the new floor below.

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B&B Italia Bend Sofa from Space Furniture.

While the interior selection is clean and uncomplicated, it was crucial that the terrace still embodied a sense of warmth that is necessary for a family home. Achieved through the gentle layering of materials, the home focuses on embracing the pre-existing nature of the building. As with the entire home, the bathroom maintains a simplistic elegance with concealed cabinetry and unassuming fixtures.

Nexus Designs and EMArchitects have acknowledged the architectural heritage and natural charm found within the home, demonstrating the understated beauty of less is more.

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Cornerstone House by Splinter Society

Splinter Society’s exploration of robust materials makes way for a monumental family home in Northcote, Melbourne.

Architecture studio Splinter Society drew inspiration from old quarries in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote to design a rock-solid family home. The design team introduced a dozen boulders positioned strategically around the home, honouring the rawness and scale of stone.

Layering these boulders with steel, charcoal timber, granite and recycled bricks, Splinter Society have explored the home’s robust fabric through a balanced and refined lens. In doing so, they’ve created the appropriately named Cornerstone House; a modern home that sets a precedence for material experimentation. 

Splinter Society craned the large cornerstones onto the site, to literally build the rest of the home around them. They deliberately left them untouched, inserting them at strategic moments in the home, such as the entry, beside the pitched black steel frame volume.

Both client and designer saw beauty in this unorthodox use of stone, dedicated to preserving its original state and the industrial details left. Throughout the home their function is varied, from being a partition, to featuring as part of the kitchen joinery, as well as the flooring, furniture and even the landscaping.

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Soft furnishings enhance the textural qualities of the home, such as the teal velvet lounge suite.

Splinter Society set out to create a fine-line, rhythmic vernacular, cladding the two-storey volume in black steel. Inside, this black steel is echoed through the blackened timber slats and fine steel handrails. Together with strategically placed windows – such as the glazing at the pitch of the kitchen ceiling – these features create a unique patterning of light in the home.  

While stone may be the fundamental feature of the home, Splinter Society were careful to steer away from its typically cold qualities. Timber panelling and rose-tone metals warm the coolness of polished concrete and granite walls. Through these juxtaposing elements, Splinter Society created a unique sculptural feature for the kitchen island, fusing raw-cut stone, rose-coloured metal and a granite benchtop. This rose-coloured metal also makes an appearance outside, breaking up the jet-back steel exterior. 

The home is positioned strategically around the sitelines of its neighbours, offering a sense of seclusion to the outdoor space. Enveloping the pool and outdoor entertaining area, the curved design softens the pitched roof; a motif replicated in the crazy paving walkways. The outdoor area doesn’t miss out on a stone feature either, where a custom table has been created from a shaved slab. 

A case study for not only its use of stone, but for its scale and volume, Splinter Society’s Cornerstone House beautifully articulates contrast in a unique family home. 

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Cornerstone House by Splinter Society

Splinter Society’s exploration of robust materials makes way for a monumental family home in Northcote, Melbourne.

Architecture studio Splinter Society drew inspiration from old quarries in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote to design a rock-solid family home. The design team introduced a dozen boulders positioned strategically around the home, honouring the rawness and scale of stone.

Layering these boulders with steel, charcoal timber, granite and recycled bricks, Splinter Society have explored the home’s robust fabric through a balanced and refined lens. In doing so, they’ve created the appropriately named Cornerstone House; a modern home that sets a precedence for material experimentation. 

Splinter Society craned the large cornerstones onto the site, to literally build the rest of the home around them. They deliberately left them untouched, inserting them at strategic moments in the home, such as the entry, beside the pitched black steel frame volume.

Both client and designer saw beauty in this unorthodox use of stone, dedicated to preserving its original state and the industrial details left. Throughout the home their function is varied, from being a partition, to featuring as part of the kitchen joinery, as well as the flooring, furniture and even the landscaping.

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Soft furnishings enhance the textural qualities of the home, such as the teal velvet lounge suite.

Splinter Society set out to create a fine-line, rhythmic vernacular, cladding the two-storey volume in black steel. Inside, this black steel is echoed through the blackened timber slats and fine steel handrails. Together with strategically placed windows – such as the glazing at the pitch of the kitchen ceiling – these features create a unique patterning of light in the home.  

While stone may be the fundamental feature of the home, Splinter Society were careful to steer away from its typically cold qualities. Timber panelling and rose-tone metals warm the coolness of polished concrete and granite walls. Through these juxtaposing elements, Splinter Society created a unique sculptural feature for the kitchen island, fusing raw-cut stone, rose-coloured metal and a granite benchtop. This rose-coloured metal also makes an appearance outside, breaking up the jet-back steel exterior. 

The home is positioned strategically around the sitelines of its neighbours, offering a sense of seclusion to the outdoor space. Enveloping the pool and outdoor entertaining area, the curved design softens the pitched roof; a motif replicated in the crazy paving walkways. The outdoor area doesn’t miss out on a stone feature either, where a custom table has been created from a shaved slab. 

A case study for not only its use of stone, but for its scale and volume, Splinter Society’s Cornerstone House beautifully articulates contrast in a unique family home. 

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