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Bondi
A 30 square metre pavilion in the back garden of a Bondi family home, finished in 2024 and built as a working prototype for reuse: almost everything in it is salvaged. The structure, doors and window frames are recycled timber, the walls are lined with tallowwood boards from a dismantled Sydney house, parts of the outside are rendered with crushed marble waste, and the roof rafters came off Facebook Marketplace. Only the tiles, the plasterboard and the spa are new.
The whole thing is bolted rather than glued, framed on a 1.2 metre grid taken from standard timber sizes, so one day it can be unbolted and its parts used again. Rows of pivoting timber screens open both sides, glazed towards the garden so the view holds when they are shut, solid towards the main house for privacy, and a fold-down bed of leftover oak and Oregon veneer turns the living room into a bedroom. It won the Robert Woodward Award for small projects at the 2025 New South Wales Architecture Awards, with a commendation for sustainable architecture.
Second Edition
A Sydney practice in Redfern founded by Amy Seo and Shahar Cohen, who met studying architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. The practice works on deconstruction and material reuse, building with what would otherwise go to landfill.
Architecture and interior design Second Edition (@secondeditionau). Photography Hamish McIntosh (@hamishmcintosh). Build @robertplumbbuild. Styling @designdaily. Landscape design @dangarbarinsmith. Seen via @thelocalproject.
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.