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Makin House

Location

45 Morang Road HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The Makin House at 45 Morang Road Hawthorn designed and built in 1978-9 by architect Kevin Makin for his own family is significant.

How is it significant?

The Makin House is of local architectural and historical significance to the City of Boroondara.

Why is it significant?

The Makin House at 45 Morang Road is part of the enduring and ongoing practice of architects in the post war era building houses for themselves and their families. This practice stems from the nineteenth century and has been a feature of middle class housing in Boroondara.

The Makin House, awarded as The Age House of the Year in 1979 is notable as an architectural understatement and a functional house, designed to a price but achieving a strong presence. It achieves a striking simplicity and purity of form that is unlike many of its peers. It is a highly original house with its tall window designed to take in the view of the park, and its unadorned two storey brick walls.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House