Sunday, August 3, 2025

Australia’s house of the year goes to a prefab beach shack trio on Stradbroke Island

Built in a factory in Brisbane and transported to the island in modules, Blok Three Sisters is a shining example of ‘stealth density’, Houses award judge says. The owners say it’s ‘magical’

Split it, sell it, or find a way of keeping it in the family? That’s the question three sisters asked themselves when they inherited a property, built by their parents in the 1970s, on a plot of land near Home beach on Minjerribah/North Stradbroke Island.

The sisters had been holidaying at the house since they were children, and the site was “almost impossible to replicate”, says one sibling, who asked to remain anonymous. “We decided quite quickly we didn’t want to get rid of it,” she says. As the older building had been eaten by mycelium, the hard part was deciding what to do with it next.

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* This article was originally published here



* This article was originally published here



* This article was originally published here

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