Brett Seakins is a practising architect at Cox Architecture, Deakin University graduate, and writer who regularly contributes to a variety of design publications when not designing buildings.
Brett Seakins's Latest contributions
Remnant House by Moloney Architects
Encircling the ruins of the site’s past dwellings, lost to fire, this robust and elegant residence in Victoria’s Central Highlands creates a lasting legacy for a multigenerational family.
Gardenvale by Ware Architects
Delicate incisions reorganize an interwar home in Melbourne’s south-east, providing clever adaptability and welcome autonomy for its downsizing owner.
Burnley by Sonelo Architects with Ample Architecture
Devoted to their neighbourhood even after the demolition of their aging house, two inner-city Melburnians chose to rebuild – and their elegantly composed new home is a place for both revelry and repose.
St Martins Lane by Matt Gibson Architecture and Design with Kestie Lane Studio
On a Melbourne laneway, an ambitious addition has transformed a small, dark terrace into a five-storey family home, offering a prototype for vertical living in the inner-city suburbs.
Meet the owners of Hood House
Leaving behind a farming life in regional Victoria, empty nesters Glenda and Alistair purchased a Melbourne terrace that came with a planning permit for an extension designed by Mihaly Slocombe Architects. Brett Seakins spoke to them about picking up the project and refining it to suit their own requirements.
Elegant and comfortable: Hood House
A terrace house that needed ‘serious attention’ has been transformed into a comfortable city home for a retired farming couple, who picked up the renovation where the previous owners left off.
House of dualities: Two Sheds
This coastal getaway’s road to completion has been defined by dualities – two architects, two designs and two structural volumes – manifesting in crisp spatial divides and harmonious opposites.
‘A perfect home for our third age’: Seawind
Divided into two highly personalized living wings, this home in regional Victoria is unequivocally functional while also deeply symbolic of its owners’ lives.
Cementing architectural patronage: Carpenter’s Square House
In this addition to an Edwardian home in south-east Melbourne, clever planning and a judicious approach to challenging the brief have resulted in a finely crafted, materially rich family home.
A simple and relaxed weekender: Y House
Rising from the ashes after bushfires destroyed a beloved coastal retreat, Y House emerges as a calming oasis with multiple levels and unobstructed, panoramic ocean views.