Located in Central Tilba, a five-hour’s drive from Sydney on the southern coast of New South Wales, sits this garden-style weekender. One of several dotted on the substantial property, this latest offering from Tobias Partners sums up the great Mies Van der Rohe’s approach of ‘less is more’. A simple palette of materials, including glass, concrete and steel, allows this extruded low slung coastal house to sit quietly in a landscape by designer Myles Baldwin. This landholding, including the heritage-listed period home ‘Haxstead’, has been in the family for many years. Now it was time to create a contemporary weekender for the couple’s son, his wife and their two young children, a stone’s throw from the original homestead.
Tobias Partners initially introduced a more contemporary style of architecture with a…
