Inside Architect's Small Sydney Home (Home and Studio Tour)

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Adam Haddow is a partner at SJB and the immediate past president of the Australian Institute of Architects. When he and his husband Mike found a run-down house in Surry Hills, on a site barely bigger than a car space, his first instinct was "no way." Then he went home, did some drawings, and saw what it could be. The result is 67sqm, in a country that averages 240. Proof you don't need a big house to live well in Australia.

The house is built around a single spiralling stair, with the generous rooms on one side and the compact service spaces on the other. A leather-wrapped handrail, a gold corduroy couch beneath a Wynne Prize-winning painting, a lipstick-pink robe, a shower open to the sky, and a rooftop where the grass tree flowers on the smoke from the barbecue.

Adam walks us through the house, the three-minute commute, and the SJB studio down the road.

SJB is one of Australia's larger design practices, working across architecture, interiors, urban design and planning, with studios in Sydney and Melbourne. More info here: https://sjb.com.au/

Video: Michael Wells
Producers: Ryan Barton, Kira Thorpe, Misty Waters, Callum Davies, Micah Davis-Rae
Editor: Micah Davis-Rae
Supplementary Photography:
Reader's Digest Building: Chris Bennett, Evolving Picture
SJB & Adam's House: Anson Smart
Additional images: Adam Haddow & SJB

00:00 House Tour
09:24 Commute & Reader's Digest Building
12:33 Studio Tour
15:17 Career and Life at SJB