
photo: David Moore
Glass House
design: Bill Lucas, Ruth Lucas
location: Sydney – Australia
other/former name: Lucas House
type: Housing
date of completion: 1957
listing/protection: National Trust of Australia NSW Register Proposed for listing on the State Heritage Register
current use: House
address: 80 The Bulwark Castlecrag 2068
gps 33º 48′ 6.12” S/151º 13′ 10.56” E
Submitted by: Noni Boyd in 2003, docomomo Australia
The Glass House, 80 the Bulwark, Castlecrag, designed by Bill and Ruth Lucas in 1957 is an excellent seminal example of the “shelter-in-nature” minimalist compositions constructed in Northern Sydney post World War II, by the architects of the “Sydney School” largely for their own use.