Garden House | Pandolfini Architects

Garden House | Pandolfini Architects | Photographer: Cieran Murphy

2026 National Architecture Awards Program

Garden House | Pandolfini Architects

Traditional Land Owners

Traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation

Year
2026
Chapter

Victoria

Category
Heritage
Builder
LBA Construction
Photographer
Cieran Murphy
Media summary

Garden House is a layered architectural intervention that delicately extends a historic home and garden in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. It is a study in contrast and continuity – a heritage home respectfully restored, a sculptural addition quietly embedded, and a subterranean world revealed through light, material and craft. The new addition, while bold and sculptural, presents as a quiet companion to the original house. Rather than competing with the past, most of the architectural intervention descends below ground, creating space without erasing history.

Project Practice Team

Dominic Pandolfini, Design Architect
Alisha Vasudevan, Project Architect
Ruben Digby-Diercks, Project Architect

Project Consultant and Construction Team

Myles Baldwin Design, Landscape Architect
Ipsum Structures, Engineer
Makao, ESD Consultant
Bryce Raworth, Heritage Consultant
MacCORMACK Associates Consultants, Hydraulic & Electrical Consultant
URBIS, Town Planner
Griepink & Ward, Services Consultant
BSGM Consulting, Building Surveyor

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