A Beauty Point family home that gives brutalism a contemporary, modern feel

July 18, 2026 — 5:00am

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Architecture’s brutalist aesthetic from the 1970s doesn’t suit everyone but a Beauty Point family home overlooking Middle Harbour gives the genre a contemporary, modern feel.

Inspired by the Sydney ‘nuts and berries’ school of architects, which included Ken Woolley and Bruce Rickard, the house designed by CO-AP sits on a steep site among many established eucalypts.

CO-AP’s starting point for its design was a comment made by the owners.

The couple with two children said to architect Will Fung, the director of the practice: “We hope you don’t mind us telling you but we love 1970s brutalism.”

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Beyond the fuchsia front door of this quaint 1893 house is an explosion of colour and art

This was “music to our ears”, says Fung, who worked closely with the practice’s founder, Tina Engelen. “We’re quite chuffed when people think it is a completely reworked ’70s house.”

Aside from the off formed concrete walls and robust........

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