No ordinary skylight: This award-winning home aims for the stars

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Key points

  • This Blue Mountains home comes with a wide skylight in the soaring ceiling.
  • It won a top residential architecture award for 2021.
  • It is for sale with a price guide of $3 million to $3.3 million.

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This eye-popping design is no ordinary skylight. It’s a portal to gaze at the galaxy.

The property in the Blue Mountains – at 6 Jubilee Avenue, Blackheath – is on the market with a guide of $3 million to $3.3 million and features a large oculus in the ceiling, designed by Peter Stutchbury Architecture’s Fernanda Cabral and Sobi Slingsby.

Named Night Sky, the home was completed in 2020 and won the highest accolade for residential design – the Robin Boyd Award – for 2021.

The 3.5 metre high ceiling is punctuated by a 2.5 metre “elliptical, unglazed skylight that retracts to gaze at the stars”, the listing explains.

On the books of agency Modern House and agent Marcus Lloyd-Jones, there is a reverence to the property’s handsome yet restrained communal areas. The flue of the fireplace speaks to the volume of the room, soaring skywards and vanishing into the intricate brickwork.

Residents can gaze at the stars.Credit: Modern House

“The main living has been compared to ecclesiastical spaces, the procession of the blade walls and long interior sight lines echo ancient colonnades,” the listing says. “Fixtures contrast to create contemporary touchpoints that are a joy to use. The meld is simply uplifting.”

The home won a top architecture award.Credit: Modern House

The incredible main living zone has bedrooms on either side. The main bedroom includes an en suite with an aged metal shower.

The solar-powered property, which gathers its own water, is crafted to be passive on the environment.

No ordinary skylight, and no ordinary home.Credit: Modern House

It has two bedrooms and a study, and a native garden and ornamental garden.

In 2021, the Houses Awards gave the unique home a commendation.

“Powerfully singular and connected to nature and place, this small residence, a tribute to the team and challenges less-is-more. Memorable outcomes are achieved with restrained means, art and architecture are as one,” the Houses Awards judges said on the website.

This article was originally published at nine.com.au.

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