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Designed to withstand
The home is divided into transparent and opaque zones. The central floor houses public and entertaining spaces walled in between solid volumes of board-formed concrete.
“My hope is that the home will evolve as it responds to all the different environmental and climatic conditions of the site, blending into the headlands and becoming integrated with Bilgola Beach over time.”
– Olson Kundig principal Tom Kundig
The world cannot be taken for granted from this vantage point; Olson Kundig have continued its signature bridging of nature, culture and people with a structure of unforgettable beauty and motion. Tom himself brings worldly knowledge to the site on
With company, it’s a sublime meeting place and opened up, it becomes an observatory for its ethereal landscape. Nestled among the dunes, surrounded by Norfolk pines and palm trees, as if it had been there all along, Bilgola Beach House is an
This piece originally appeared in est Magazine issue #42.
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