Completed in 2022 in Ocean Grove, Australia. Images by Steph McGlenchy. The original house was built in the early 1980s by a local builder and architectural draftsman who took inspiration from the casual modernism of the.
Nexus Designs has marked a new chapter of growth in the form of new directorship, with the practice to be led by Michael Malignaggi, Sonia Simpfendorfer and Sally Evans.
My fascination with more prosaic project homes was sparked some years ago by the CEO of Sydney Homeworld publicly saying that “architects had nothing to offer project homes”. A red rag to a bull, as readers of the last four weeks would have divined.
Horrie and Bert went back years. In the early 1900s, when Bert was still a teenager, Horrie had encouraged him to invest his savings, garnered from work as a ‘dental mechanic’, into blocks of land. As WW1 broke out, Bert sold the land and bought a house, and in 1916 aged 19, he enlisted in the AIF, serving as staff sergeant in the ‘Dental Detail’ of the Australian Army Medical Corps, at home and in Britain.