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XYZ House in Perth
Contemporary Luxury Home and Pool in Perth, Australia ? design by Mark Aronson Architecture
4 Aug 2017
XYZ House
Design: Mark Aronson Architecture
Location: Perth, Western Australia
XYZ House

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The existing City Beach house is located at The Boulevard, a tree-lined wide drive with generous grass verges that connects the Perth suburbs of Leederville and Wembley with the Indian Ocean.

The original dwelling was designed by architect GE Swallow in 1962, and is a beautifully intact example of early 60?s West Australian modernist Architecture. It comprises a low-pitched metal roof, with Donnybrook Stone and painted brickwork to the façade, whilst internally Jarrah floorboards and slim natural brickwork are expressed.
Located on a sloping site, the original building is split level with a double garage off the street and steps to a raised North-facing Verandah. The `site is on a North-South alignment and is protected from the worst of the strong southwesterly gusts from the ocean, being a distance of 1000m away to the beach and sheltered via adjacent trees.

The clients, a young and design conscious professional couple, wished to extend their house into the garden to make better use of their private outdoor living space, and maximise the indoor/ outdoor lifestyle.

The existing condition of the house incorporated a renovated kitchen, which was located across the back wall ...