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At a different scale when Lane Cove Council wanted to disguise the proliferation of yellow and red brick walk up flats, his advice was to narrow the streets, widen the verges, and plant Sydney Blue Gums. 30 years later the trees reached maturity, completely obscuring the ugly apartments behind, and equally importantly, provided views to a beautiful Australian landscape out of those apartments. Take a drive down Nundah St in Lane Cove to see his work, where there is a public garden and walk named in his honour.

Built in the 1960s and now asking $4.2M, the Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired Mirrabooka House sits on five acres of magnificent gardens. Sydney-born architect and landscape designer Bruce Rickard was once described as "the Frank Lloyd Wright of Australian architecture." While certainly inspired by Wright—whom he first studied at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1950s—Rickard also used his formal training of both indoor and outdoor plans to harmoniously adapt Wrightsonian ideas to Australia’s native landscape and climate. An exceptional example of these dual talents is the Mirrabooka ...

Inside the spectacular suburban hideaway inspired by a 1959 Hollywood thriller - complete with a Japanese garden oasis, a sunlit living room and a sunken saltwater swimming pool A hillside house 15 minutes' drive from Sydney CBD was inspired by a mansion in an iconic Hollywood movie The design was based on the house atop Mount Rushmore in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, North by Northwest Built in 1961 by Australian architect Bruce Rickard, the lavish estate has a Japanese garden and sunken pool Inside are five bedrooms, a home office, a wine cellar and a cinema room that opens onto a balcony A ...