LUKER STUDIO

This house designed by Edmund Rose in the 1870s is unique in this inner city area. The original house has largely been left intact, steel windows and doors signify new openings which allow light and air to penetrate the ground floor. On the upper level a sharply inclined dormer window allows for a bathroom on this level. The house still has an old world feel about it.

In stark contrast, the new studio and bathroom in the garden area are a distinctly modern intrusion. The artist’s studio in the garden is a double height cube with a ladder and a storage loft within the space, with large slot windows which frame the views to the garden. The studio is a painterly collage of materials in a garden setting. This garden room almost has the feeling of a fantasy world emerging in a forest.

LOCATION

Sydney

COMPLETION

1999

PHOTOGRAPHY

Michael Nicholson