SRG house

A 1970s heritage-listed semi is re-engineered for contemporary family life. Keeping within the building foot-print, architect Conrad Johnston has carved extra space and forged stronger connections to landscape and place, while maintaining the integrity of the original structure and material language. Anson Smart The house is one of a pair of heritage-listed semis, built in 1972 on a steep waterfront site looking across the Parramatta River towards Iron Cove to the south, and Birkenhead Point to the west. Anson Smart Built at a 45 degree angle to the street, the semi zig-zags along the south boundary to side-step trees and sand-stone outcrops. Its three-storey concrete pillar and slab construction was infilled with floor-to-ceili... More