Designed by Australian studio FRG Architects, the ‘Courtyard Residence’ in Melbourne, is “a rectangular origami of concrete and glass”. The home was created to be warm, contemporary, and inviting, and holds an atmosphere that is at once calming and zen-like. When you glimpse the home from the street, it seems to be subtle and minimal, and as you walk into it, you watch it open up onto a sheltered courtyard, which was the inspiration for the name of the house.

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