Courtyard House Curl Curl

Curl Curl, Sydney

The house is a C shape wrapped around a central garden and pool: parents' rooms in one wing, children's in the other, a connecting bridge between them, and a double-height kitchen and dining room as the hub. It was finished in 2024 at Curl Curl, on Sydney's Northern Beaches, for a couple with young children.

Outside, the whole house wears a second skin of perforated fibre cement screens that fold open or closed with the sun, the seasons and the coastal weather. The architects have since renamed it Casa C, and under that name it took Gold at the Sydney Design Awards in 2025.

Adriano Pupilli Architects

Adriano Pupilli Architects is an architecture practice in Manly, on Sydney's Northern Beaches, formed in 2016; Adriano Pupilli had practised under his own name since 2010. On this house the principal worked with Aoiffe O'Kelly, Alex Volfman and Pablo Condina, and GZ Consulting Engineers carried the structure.

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Architecture Adriano Pupilli Architects (@adrianopupilliarchitects). Photography @simonwhitbreadphoto. Builder @chaseprojectsptyltd. Landscape @cavansmith.csla. Seen via @co_architecture_au.

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Researched September 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.