The Journey of Building and Designing a Concrete Home (House Tour)

Mona Lane, designed by Harley Graham Architects, with interiors by Louise Walsh, is a concrete home that seemingly disappears among the stunning coastal surroundings of the New South Wales Northern Rivers region. When the owners of Mona Lane moved to the costal landscape of Brunswick Heads from the countryside they sought out Harley Graham and his team to custom design a forever home that facilitated a feeling of elevated living outside. Comprising of three large residential apartments designed to combine into one central home, Mona Lane is an impressively large concrete home designed for the occupants to fully embrace the picturesque coastal landscape of the New South Wales Northern Rivers Region. The architectural intentions by Harley Graham and his team focused on making this large monolithic concrete structure disappear. In doing so the design team utilised dark timber cladding that envelopes the floor plates in vegetation, thus concealing the bulk of the home and providing amenity