Twin Peaks House, Sydney Recidence, Australian Residential Property, Architecture, Images
Twin Peaks House in Darling Point
New South Wales Villa, Australia: Luxury NSW Property – design by Luigi Rosselli Pty Ltd – Architects
23 Aug 2016
Twin Peaks House
Design: Luigi Rosselli Pty Ltd – Architects
Location: Darling Point, Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia
Twin Peaks House

A Queen Anne style residence reveals its hidden character and history in the late night lights. Two crisp zinc roof gables, observing the shadows on the narrow footpath, guard the new entry door.

The early 1900s bricks, shingles and Elizabethan windows have been a theatre for three generations of the same family. They have a history to reveal that cannot be found in a new building.
Following a failed total rebuild design by a different architect, Luigi Rosselli Architects opted for a more subtle ?tummy tuck? and clean up of the original house. Some of the 70s and 80s additions were removed, and the original house restored and enhanced. The only addition was of an infill of the front courtyard set between the two gables. This addition houses the new entry and stairwell, much more dignified than the old sunken and squeezed side entry porch. The old Queen Anne now has a new hearth, a three storey atrium with a Piranesi inspired stair winding and unwinding from the lower living room level to the upper attic. The stair is surrounded by the brick walls of what was once the courtyar...