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Design: CODA Architecture + Urban Design – Tom Fisher House is a new intense homeless night asylum in the inner-city suburb of Mount Lawley. The 10-bed shelter will give homeless people with secure and managed overnight accommodation.
Design: Kuhnellco Architecture: this project is about new beginnings for a young family. In response to the surrounding landscape the outcome is a series of individual buildings around a central living area, allowing for efficiency and adaptability to the environment and the family’s changing needs.
Design: ThomsonAdsett architects: vibrant new teaching and learning spaces to interest and inspire. The building form is crisp, dynamic, colourful and futuristic. Welcoming undercroft spaces form valuable covered learning settings.
This fabulous lap pool (& adjoining spa) measures 14m in length and 2.2m in width. Each end widens out, wrapping around 3 sides of the house.
This pool and landscape boasts a stunning bay and city view from a suburban hill located in Mt Martha. It was important from a design perspective, considering the slope of the rear garden that overlooking into the neighboring properties was considered.
Under the chair of 2012 Pritzker architecture prize laureate, Wang Shu, the jury of the TERRA Award selected the winners of this prize, the first of its kind dedicated to recognising excellence the field of contemporary earthen architecture design and construction, in Lyon on 14 July.
Design: Shane Thompson Architects
Shane Thompson Architects’ design of the central facilities and accommodation (94 villas) is inspired by local naturally-occurring forms – sand dunes, native trees, ocean and lakes.
Design: Buchan Group Architects. Work has begun on a $74 m development masterplan for the Shellharbour Workers Club that will not only transform the long-standing clubhouse, but also deliver an extensive range of new community facilities.
Design: Those Architects: the brief was to transform a late 19th century heritage-listed four bedroom cottage in a quiet, leafy country town into a larger, light filled home for a growing family.
The Cellar Door & food market by architects Cumulus have been collected around a courtyard space which allows shelter and respite from the surrounding environment, while providing views through the tasting space to the Hazards beyond and access to open deck spaces.
Design: OMA / Hassell, Architects: the new Western Australian Museum building in Perth reaches a significant milestone, with a design team led by international architects OMA led by Rem Koolhaas now in negotiations to oversee the project.
Le Corbusier’s tapestry Les Dés Sont Jetés (The Dice Are Cast), commissioned by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, now hanging in the Sydney Opera House building, NSW, Australia.
Design: Mott MacDonald: the AU$63 million redevelopment of Flinders University’s Plaza and Student Hub has been completed in Adelaide, Australia. Mott MacDonald provided project management, environmental and independent technical review services during the redevelopment.
Design: Thomson Rossi Architects: this building will hold 7.5 million metres of drill core samples collected over 130 years of exploration from across South Australia. It can display up to 2km of cores on a series of automated conveyor belts in the main viewing area.
Design: Renato D’Ettorre Architects: up high overlooking Sydney’s stunning Harbour is the Darling Point Penthouse – a tranquil two bedroom home the owners regularly entertain friends and family.
Design: Renato D’Ettorre Architects: set on on of Sydney’s stunning waterways, the design of this house attempts to blur the boundary between the inside and the outside whilst maintaining a strong sense of distinction between privacy and openness.
Design: Renato D’Ettorre Architects: Exposed to the extremes of tropical elements the guiding principle was to incorporate glass against wind and rain and shutters in the heat and humidity.