Adrian Welch
Design: Matt Gibson Architecture + Design. This rear addition is a narrow single-fronted terrace presents as a long tall timber-clad tube wrapped around the remnants of the existing boundary walls and the open plan of the ground floor interior.
Design: Pleysier Perkins, architects. This is a two-storey extension to a classic Edwardian villa in Malvern East’s heritage Gascoigne Estate, which includes a double garage, open plan living area and master bedroom on the ground level, with a study and guest retreat on the first floor.
Design: Pedra Silva Architects. High-level state-of-the-art dental clinic building on one of Sydney’s high-end retail streets. The aesthetic employed by the architects is a clear response to problem solving.
Design: STGM Architects
A building in the Beauport borough of Quebec City, adjacent to the Estimauville eco-neighbourhood. It is a 1,000 sqm two-storey structure that puts the focus on eco-friendly, architectural innovation.
Design: Flanagan Lawrence, architects. A Grade II listed building dating from 1923. Designed by Frank Verity and originally constructed as a 3000 seat cinema, the building was awarded the RIBA Award London Street Architecture Award for the best London facade.
Architects: Miguel Marcelino. The school building setting allows a close relationship with nature, located in the countryside, the new primary school + kindergarten is surrounded by beautiful adult trees.
Design: A2OFFICE, architects. This architecture project is a rehabilitation of a 19th Century building with an unusual triangle-shaped planimetry. Despite an area of only 52sqm four lofts have been formed.
Design: Patel Taylor, architects. Sensitive but contemporary twist on the traditional English almshouse: a radical shake up of an established design typology, providing a series of spacious single-storey dwellings for elderly residents.
Design: Durbach Block Jaggers, architects. Inspired by Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation interiors, this design celebrates the intimacy and immediacy of the everyday. Functions overlap in this tiny renovated space.
Design: John McAslan + Partners, architects. Remodelling of Grade II listed building at Maze Hill to provide a new 7,600 sqm school and community building at Westcombe Park. The 1,400-pupil secondary school is split across two sites adjacent to Greenwich Park.
Design: ROBERT KERR architecture design. This Californian beach house responds to extraordinary site conditions as a progressive revealing of a sculpted interior. Cantilevering on 3 sides, the top level is sculpted to express openings and exaggerate its weight.
Design: Doone Silver Architects
A four-storey apartment building, replaces a two-storey electrical substation: the building adjoins a listed former public house and responds sensitively to the constraints of a conservation area.
Ben Jacks’ book The Architect’s Tour: Notes for the Design Traveler, by Culicidae Architectural Press: this publication records a lovely project, a wander through some of the most important European buildings of the last century.
Design: NAN Arquitectos. This architectural interior was based around La Torta, a typical Galician sweet, as an area to buy or take away “La Torta”, as well as a space to accompany this product with a coffee or a soft drink.