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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Jordyn Beazley

Space race: winning Sydney houses show how to do more with less

Three generations of the one family live in Lane Cove is one of the entries in the 2023 NSW Architecture awards.
Three generations of one family live together in Sydney’s Lane Cove. Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/The Guardian

At first glance, the Booth Farrow-Palmer family home in Lane Cove looks like many others dotted around Sydney’s urban landscape: an old brick house that has been given a facelift with a lick of paint.

But the property, designed by architecture firm Saha, won two gongs in this year’s NSW Architecture awards – one for sustainability and another for renovations to allow it to comfortably house three generations. The residence is home to an older couple and their son and daughter-in-law who have two young children.

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