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Elana Castle

  • Architect, Writer and Photographer, Freelance
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Inside A Tropical Brutalist Home In Brisbane, Australia

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By Elana Castle
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“The connection between inside and out was never optional; it was the organizing principle of every decision we made together,” states interior architect Samantha Leigh when asked about her design strategy for this Brisbane, Australia home. While the home’s brutalist architecture makes an immediate impression, it’s the way the house wraps itself around a garden—rather than simply looking onto one—that gives the project its quiet confidence.
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A Sydney New-Build Takes On An Atmospheric Air

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By Elana Castle
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In Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay, Arent & Pyke have transformed a stark new-build apartment into something far more atmospheric. Designed for a couple downsizing from a larger home, the project rejects restraint in favour of immersion, with bejewelled colour, texture and comfort working in majestic harmony.
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A 1970s Sydney Home Updated For Contemporary Living

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By Elana Castle
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Set within a quiet, densely green pocket of Sydney, Helsham House occupies a neighborhood shaped by mid-century homes and bushland contours. The house has long belonged to this context—calm, recessive, and materially grounded. Designed in 1974 by Peter Hall, the architect who completed the Sydney Opera House, the home exemplifies modernist principles: clean lines, expansive glazing, climate-responsive detailing and the use of local materials such as timber and stone.
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