Carter Williamson Architects

Fifteen years after they first renovated Brise Soleil, Carter Williamson Architects returns to adjust its accessibility and refresh its interior design. “The home was like a musical instrument; we fine-tuned it and the clients were thrilled with the result.” Beyond its street-facing gate, the age of Brise Soleil is signalled by its immediate level change and historic timber frontage. Its modern entrance, a grand pivot door, sits to the side of the house at the end of a gentle slope.

Profile Projects Contacts Carter Williamson is an award-winning architecture studio recognised for design excellence across homes, multi-residential projects and public buildings. Founded in 2004, the practice creates work that balances creativity with rigour, ambition with care, and playfulness with precision. Led by Principals Shaun Carter and Ben Peake, the studio brings together architects and designers united by curiosity, craft and purpose.

In adapting a Victorian terrace in Sydney’s Inner West, Carter Williamson Architects brings a sense of privacy and joy to the aptly named Playhouse. That generosity manifests in a bold facade with a “big, colourful, ecclesiastical window” that Peake refers to as “an architectural mural to the street”. Complementing this outward-facing sensibility is an interior that allows for a great wellspring of privacy and seclusion.