Sample work · built by Moviio · this is not a real practice
Surry Hills · Sydney · est. 2014

Considered
architecture.

A boutique residential studio in Sydney, designing renovations, heritage adaptations and bespoke homes for the way you actually live — not the way magazines tell you to.

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Our approach

Architecture is conversation,
not catalogue.

We take fewer projects each year so we can spend real time on each one — listening to how you live, what your home asks for, what's already there worth keeping. No house-flip aesthetic. No template. No 80-page brand mood-board you didn't ask for. Just buildings that hold up against weather, time and the small daily rhythms of the people who live in them.

Featured · 2026

Paddington Terrace.

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Paddington Terrace exterior
Heritage · Residential · 2026
Paddington, NSW

A two-storey heritage terrace stripped back to its bones. We kept the front facade, the original stair, and the garden gum tree. Everything else — kitchen, light, the way the house meets the sky out back — became part of a slow, four-year conversation with the family.

"Halse listened more than they drew. Four years on, the house still works the way our life actually moves through it."
— Pippa & Daniel · Paddington · 2022 build

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We're currently scoping projects for late 2026 onward. Send us a few photos, a sketch of the brief, your address and the timeline you're working to — we'll write back within five business days with whether we're the right fit.