{"id":5148,"date":"2025-07-19T06:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T06:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/5148\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T06:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T06:17:09","slug":"renovation-of-an-edwardian-home-in-st-kilda-by-pohio-adams-architects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/5148\/","title":{"rendered":"REnovation of an Edwardian home in St Kilda by Pohio Adams ARchitects"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a Sydney-based architect took on a Melbourne couple\u2019s home reno, there was plenty of scope for things to go wrong.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, given the variety and choice of architects in Melbourne, the owners\u2019 search ended beyond Victoria\u2019s border. Complicating things further was the client\u2019s architecture background. Would they be tempted to change, interfere and make the process more challenging?<\/p>\n

Luckily for Sydney\u2019s Pohio Adams Architects, the clients \u2013 a couple with two children \u2013 were open to pushing the envelope as much as running with ideas. And what started out as a tired old Edwardian house in St Kilda is now a light-filled family contemporary home that also creates touchstones to the past.<\/p>\n

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Sydney-based Pohio Adams Architects transformed a tired old Edwardian house in St Kilda.Credit: Ryan Wehi<\/p>\n

The client, who only worked as an architect for a relatively short period, had been in the same year in the school of architecture at Auckland University as Bianca Pohio, a director of the practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were few constraints when it came to the design. Our client regularly travels the world looking at great architecture, including by architects Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier,\u201d says Pohio, who worked closely with her life and business partner, architect Chris Adams. \u201cI\u2019ve known this client for 30 years, so there\u2019s also that element of trust,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

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Located in a leafy heritage streetscape, the Edwardian house set on a 475-square-metre site, was always going to be retained. However, the house \u2013 renovated over intervening years with a number of Arts & Crafts and Art Deco elements \u2013 \u201cfell away\u201d at the back with a poorly added lean-to. \u201cWe were also faced with a three-level apartment block to the rear of the property which meant that we had to address issues such as overlooking,\u201d says Adams.<\/p>\n

Pohio Adams Architects retained the front four rooms of the period home but reworked them into two separate bedrooms for the children and a large main bedroom and an en suite \u2013 with the remainder of the space used as a separate bathroom.<\/p>\n

Beyond this more traditional arrangement with open fireplaces and decorative plaster ceilings, the house starts to express new forms and materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a Sydney-based architect took on a Melbourne couple\u2019s home reno, there was plenty of scope for things…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-5148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}