The Australian beach house is embedded in Thomas Caddaye Architects' psyche – capturing the essence of how people choose to live as much as engage with the Australian landscape. The NSW coast is where Caddaye and his team spend most of their time, working on projects from north of Sydney to the far South Coast. And although based on the coast and in Canberra, it’s the coastal clients that regularly beckon.
Registered architect Thomas Caddaye takes a thoughtful and sensitive approach to every new project, irrespective of scale or budget. For Tom, it’s about delivering architecture that responds to the local context as much as the ‘architectural tectonics’ - carefully putting things together and taking the time in the detailing and selection of materials.
Rather than just following international design trends, the work emanating from the studio is more akin to regional modernism, capturing the essence of the local context, the unique culture and as importantly, the way his clients want to live, both in the present and well into the future.
Text by Stephen Crafti