Adaptive Reuse by NTF Architecture
NTF Architecture · 2021
Projects / Built project
Station Street (The White House) by NTF Architecture
NTF Architecture's 2013 alteration of an 1870s weatherboard terrace on Station Street, Carlton North, Melbourne. Photography by Peter Clarke.
- Project size
- Single terrace block
- Building levels
- 2
- Photographer
- Peter Clarke
- Project context
- Architecture · Built · Residential
The story
The story behind the work.
The White House sits on Station Street in Carlton North, an inner-Melbourne suburb of single-fronted weatherboard terraces dating back to the 1870s. NTF Architecture reworked the original terrace for a couple with a young child, designing the house to engage openly with its surrounds while delivering a high level of amenity within the confines of a single terrace block.
Completed in 2013, the project arranges two storeys around the constraints of the narrow site. The architects worked the original simplicity of the weatherboard frontage against a quieter contemporary insertion behind, allowing the historic street rhythm to read at the entry while opening the rear to family life.
The project was shortlisted in the 2013 Australian Interior Design Awards (Residential Design) and the 2013 Australian Interior Design Excellence Awards, and received a High Commendation in the 2013 Houses Awards (Alterations and Additions over 200 m²).
Architect: NTF Architecture (Nixon Tulloch Fortey). Photographer: Peter Clarke.
The practice