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Houses 2025 Australian House of the Year: Blok Three Sisters by Blok Modular X Vokes Peters. Picture: Christopher Frederick Jones
In a plot twist no one saw coming, a crumbling childhood holiday shack has been named the 2025 Australian House of the Year after a stunning transformation.
Blok Three Sisters by Blok Modular with Vokes and Peters has taken out the top prize in the 2025 Houses Awards for its innovative approach to a unique problem – creating three jawdropping homes for a trio of sisters where they spent their childhood summers.
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The property was designed so three sisters could still holiday in their childhood summer escape. Picture: Christopher Frederick Jones.
Prefabricated segments being transported to site. Picture: Christopher Frederick Jones.
Simple features with indoor-outdoor flow. Picture: Christopher Frederick Jones.
The vision behind the design and its implementation saw it heralded as the future of Australian housing – representing the type of “stealth density” required in a time of housing shortage, turning one crumbling house into multiple designer homes.
At first glance it does still look like one house, but it is three full homes side-by-side on North Stradbroke – each with their own courtyards, breezeways and laid-back vibe
The homes weren’t even built on-site, having been prefabricated in Brisbane and shipped to the fragile island environment to save time, money and environmental impact.
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A muted colour scheme throughout. Picture: Christopher Frederick Jones.
Each home still has privacy and yet they are all together as a family. Picture: Christopher Frederick Jones.
The Houses Awards jury was blown away, with their citation positively gushing over the property.
“A single beach house in a state of disrepair has been replaced with three new residences, permitting the next generations of the same family to make their own memories here,” the citation said.
“Blok Three Sisters is an inventive design that finds a compelling balance between pragmatism and ambition.
“The design looks to the past to recall what makes a great holiday house, while broadening the possibilities of prefabrication as an alternative construction method that is better equipped for our future.”
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Greenery all around in the backyard. Picture: Christopher Frederick Jones
The design is hardy to withstand the rigours of a tropical climate. Picture: Christopher Frederick Jones.
It said the units were arranged side-by-side, with a simple flip in the plan of one unit achieving subtle variation in the facade, “gently disguising its modularity”.
“Australia needs more exemplars of stealth density that demonstrate how our freestanding residences might gradually evolve to accommodate more dwellings, without sacrifice to individual or neighbourhood amenity,” the jury citation said.
“The jury felt this terrace-like, modular design was not only a successful response to this laid-back coastal setting, but also a worthy and replicable model for co-living that could be readily adapted to sites in urban and suburban settings.”
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