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Peerless in Position, Peerless in Design | Highgate Hill House by Shaun Lockyer Architects
Highgate Hill
· 5 Bedrooms · 4 Baths · House
· Terrace · Equipped kitchen
Highgate Hill · 5 Bedrooms · 4 Baths · House · Terrace · Equipped kitchen
The morning starts with the city in view, on both levels of the house. Downstairs, the skyline is part of the kitchen, living spaces, terrace and lawn. Upstairs, it widens into a sweeping outlook across the city, the hillsides and The Gabba. Because the house faces north, the light and the city arrive from the same direction. That's a rare alignment in Brisbane, where city views so often mean facing south and are usually reserved for the upper floor. There's a choice to make: coffee on the terrace, a quiet moment on the upper deck, or a little longer in bed watching Brisbane wake up. This is what the position gives you. The design begins with what was already here. Overhead, the original pressed-metal ceilings rise 3.2 metres, retained from the early 20th-century Queenslander the house began as and sympathetically renovated so its character still leads. Then come Shaun Lockyer's contemporary additions, shaped around the elevation and the elements, pulling light through skylights and op
The morning starts with the city in view, on both levels of the house. Downstairs, the skyline is part of the kitchen, living spaces, terrace and lawn. Upstairs, it widens into a sweeping outlook across the city, the hillsides and The Gabba. Because the house faces north, the light and the city arrive from the same direction. That's a rare alignment in Brisbane, where city views so often mean facing south and are usually reserved for the upper floor. There's a choice to make: coffee on the terrace, a quiet moment on the upper deck, or a little longer in bed watching Brisbane wake up. This is what the position gives you. The design begins with what was already here. Overhead, the original pressed-metal ceilings rise 3.2 metres, retained from the early 20th-century Queenslander the house began as and sympathetically renovated so its character still leads. Then come Shaun Lockyer's contemporary additions, shaped around the elevation and the elements, pulling light through skylights and op
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