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Creating a brand new home that respects the heritage context of an existing streetscape is no easy feat.
So when Clare Cousins Architects were enlisted to replace a post-war cottage in Clifton Hill with a large, multi-generational family home, the architects started by drawing inspiration from what was already there.
The resulting Esplanade House features salvaged bricks from the site’s original property, thoughtfully incorporating the past into its intriguing design — woven together with Fiona Brockhoff-designed gardens.

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A ‘clinker’ is a type of red brick that has been misfired, overcooked or burnt, a process which gives them a mottled blue-ish black, orangey-red tonality. They were previously discarded as a material until the 1930s, when they were popularised to build modest, cookie-cutter dwellings en masse like this one in Preston. 
The new owners engaged Wowowa to create an extension that would be in keeping with the home’s clinker brick personality, art deco features and their own modern preferences. 
The result is this raspberry and duck egg blue marvel. Hey, presto!