Glass Link House, Melbourne Building, Australian Extended Home, Victoria Residence, Architecture Images
Glass Link House in Melbourne
Extended Property in Victoria, Australia – design by Robbie Walker, architect
8 May 2017
Glass Link House
Architect: Robbie Walker
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Glass Link House

The story of this project from the owner / builder and designer:

We bought this house about three years ago. We were living in Richmond, feeling very cool in a converted old grocery store that I had just finished renovating. But after the birth of our second baby, the stairs, busy streets and a stupidly high mortgage (that meant we couldn?t go to any of the nice coffee shops we lived next door to anyway) it started to get to us.
We decided to move out to the burbs, find something with potential a little further out and maybe have a little less mortgage pressure. So even if the coffee shops weren?t as good, at least we could go to them.

When we bought this place it was rough, Alice hadn?t even seen it. We kept missing out at auctions so she had stoped coming. It had a fake tile roof, nasty aluminium windows and a really dodgy little add on. And, during a lovely 70?s renovations the ceiling height had been dropped.

I think everyone we were bidding against wanted to knock it down. Although that might have been more sensible I fall in love too easily. I do this thing where I ?tilt my head and squint my eyes just the right way? to make things ...