Townsend + Associates Architects on Lunchbox Architect

Townsend + Associates Architects is a Canberra practice established in 1993 by Bruce and Catherine Townsend. It has built a reputation for high-quality design and construction across small and large commercial projects, single houses and significant multi-unit residential developments, and is regarded as one of the leading firms in Canberra.

The practice has received twenty-three ACT Chapter Australian Institute of Architects awards and a national Robin Boyd Award commendation for housing. While it concentrates mainly on larger projects, it keeps an interest in single houses as a way to continue exploring design with an experimental attitude. Its first-principles approach to design and detailing aims for clarity, elegance, comfort and function.

On Lunchbox, Constable House reworks a 1960s home by architect Rudi Krastins on a steep Red Hill site over two stages and 14 years, using masonry, timber, glass and steel to open it to the outdoors and to views across central Canberra.

See Constable House on Lunchbox below.

Constable House Staged Renovation Takes 14 Years, But Worth the Wait

A 1960s Architect-designed home undergoes 21st Century transformation into a gracious new house fit for modern living.