Headland House,
Tamarama.

A family's third house. A site that could see the sea — but didn't. The brief asked us to listen before we drew.

Headland House sits two streets back from Tamarama beach, on a battle-axe block that wanted nothing to do with the view. Our task was less to add and more to subtract — to peel back a series of additions accumulated over four decades and re-orient the house around a single, considered courtyard. The result is a quiet plan: three bedrooms, two living spaces, a wet edge pool and the most carefully detailed corner we've drawn in a decade.