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.

Babylon House is perched on the crest of a 7000 square metre site on the edge of an Avalon Beach escarpment north of Sydney. Credit: Zella Casey Brown

“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-

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