Named after the mythical tower of Babylon, the renovation of an award-winning house overlooking Pittwater and the Pacific Ocean has been years in the making – almost a decade.

The home is perched on the crest of a 7000 square metre site on the edge of an Avalon Beach escarpment north of Sydney, a location that threw up plenty of structural challenges. But its lengthy build time was also partly due to the client’s involvement with their designers, Casey Brown Architecture.

“Our clients wanted to be involved in the process. It was very much a collaboration,” says architect Rob Brown, director of the practice.

The interior of the rough-hewn home, named Babylon after a tower-like structure at its top, was renovated for a couple with an adult child and is built on an incline approaching 30 d

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