A Courtyard House
Melbourne
A new house in bayside Melbourne, finished in 2024. The plan is a stretched square loosely divided into a grid of nine, with the middle of each side carved out for a covered entry, two planted courtyards and a paved forecourt, bringing the garden into the house.
Above the living room sits a sawtooth roof, clad in brick to satisfy a covenant on the land and glazed on its eastern faces to light the room below. A sky-blue steel band circles the upper floor, letting it read as floating, and the house was shortlisted in the 2026 Victorian Architecture Awards.
Office MI-JI
A practice led by Millie Anderson and Jimmy Carter, working across architecture and interiors. It began in Melbourne and, in its own words, took shape in London and Chicago.
Architecture Office MI-JI (@office_mi.ji). Photography Ben Hosking (@benhoskingphotographer). Builder @dimpat__. Landscape architecture @sl.ugprojects. Review by @luciaamies. Seen via @housesmagazine.
The picture comes from this post on Instagram.
Researched August 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.