Double-height extension brings light to Melbourne's Lantern House

Architecture practice Timmins + Whyte has added a double-height gabled extension to a 19th-century house in Melbourne, illuminating its formerly light-starved living spaces.
Originally built in 1876, Lantern House formerly had a dark and poky interior that meant its owners – a young couple with two children and a dog – were longing for a home with an open-plan layout.A low-ceilinged extension that had been added to the property in the 1980s was also proving redundant.
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