[A] Ferrous House

A 9-metre-wide Paddington block, a worker's cottage neighbour each side, and a client who wanted nothing painted.

We poured the street facade in board-formed concrete and clad the upper box in weathering steel left to rust to its final colour. Inside, the slab is the floor — polished, not covered — and the steel beams are the ceiling. The whole house is three materials and a lot of north light. Nothing is hiding anything. The fixed price held to the dollar and we handed the keys over eleven months after the first pour, on the date in the contract.