Award-winning architects TRIBE Studio this month unveil their latest residential project, a brick bungalow in a conservation area in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The Queens Park House is a masterful alteration and addition to an existing Californian Bungalow that plays with perceptions of scale and respects neighbourhood character.

The original single-storey 1940s house was no masterpiece yet had a latent charm and a substantial rear garden typical of the area. The quality of the well-built original house and its period detailing inspired TRIBE to honour and refresh it, reinterpreting and repeating key elements such as the distinctive roof gables.

Image: TRIBE Studio’s Queens Park House Interior, 2019 Photographer: Katherine Lu