Barossa Valley Glass House wins South Australian Architecture Award 360 DEGREE VIEWS: James Knight, wife Helen, and sons Thomas, 3, and Peter, 7, at their award-winning Max Pritchard-designed Barossa Valley Glass House. Picture: DYLAN COKER Source: News Limited A DISTINCT South Australian style is emerging in residential architecture as designers respond to our unique environment. This year's winning home in the South Australian Architecture Awards - the Barossa Valley Glass House - embraces the trend. Its striking profile is almost embedded in its Lyndoch hillside and inside its polished concrete floors and numerous windows work with our changing Mediterranean climate. The Max Pritchard-designed home has almost 360-degree views. Its 57m long and 6m-wide structure is buried about 1.5m on its southern side and it then steps down over six levels to hug the profile of the hill. Owners James and Helen Knight and their boys, Peter, 7, and Thomas, 3, moved in last October and have "fallen in love with it." Winners of the institute's annual awards were announced last night. The Glass House won the John S Chappel Award for Residential Architecture. Australian Institute of Architects SA Chapter's vice-president David Homburg, Hassall principal, said all the entries had responded to their different context sites and environments. "I think we're starting to also see this in the types of materials we use, lots of masonry and concrete floors, those materials really well suited to our climate," he said. PAGES 70-71: Grand designs for our SA life