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A five storey modular home clings to the side of a cliff in this conceptual design by Modscape. The Cliff Housedesign is a theoretical response to clients who wanted explore design options for extreme parcels of coastal land in Australia
The cantilevered balcony at P048 House puts you so close to the beach you can just about make the jump. Shutters clad with sawn timber battens adds a balance of texture to the rendered and glass façades.
Time and money are the two most quoted. But you can ad the availability of components, the condition of the project being lit, sustainability requirements, the weather, wildlife, locals support/non support, conflict of creative ideas etc.
The Hamersley Road Residence is the conversion of an early 1900’s Australian workers cottage to a practical, modern family residence. The external timberwork, moulded plaster, handmade tiles and flannel flower glass of the existing house give the home a distinct arts and crafts aesthetic.
Conrad Gargett Riddel Ancher Mortlock Woolley (CGRAMW) has designed the new Brisbane office for leading audit, tax and advisory firm, BDO, showcasing the importance of design in facilitating a positive organisational culture
Design: Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects: This design focuses on the immense Indian Ocean: all space is aligned and extruded through a strict dialogue of plan and section revealing the intensity and variety of this great ocean.
Design: Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects: New living, dining, kitchen, laundry, en-suite, bathroom and wine cellar added to a 1920’s cottage. The Sleep-out and Lean-to were removed from the rear of the house taking the house back to its’ original condition.
Design: alex popov & associates: Architecture and physical location have always been inseparable from one another. The location, its characteristics and its history are part of the emotive connections that form a sense of place and context. This project articulates the idea of a modernist approach to the peninsula’s traditional concept of a beachside dwelling.
Design: Loucas Zahos Architects: Designed primarily as a holiday house, the Currimundi Beach House captures the essence of being away from routine, inviting relaxation, retreat and enjoyment of the spectacular beachfront location it shares.
Design: Adam Dettrick Architects. Form follows function in this new home in Narrabundah, with different activities within the house uniquely expressed on the exterior. Spatially the home is defined by the separation of living areas from sleeping areas with a central hallway.
Design: Cox Architecture: Visitors to the newly redeveloped Adelaide Oval – one of Australia’s most iconic sports venues – will now be greeted by a dramatic, cantilevered curved form over the main entrance, created from over 4,000 individual panels of Nordic Bronze from Aurubis
Design: Paul Jones, Architect: Winner of the 2014 Master Builders Association Southwest Home of the Year and six other awards for construction excellence, this beautiful home was designed by renowned architect Paul Jones and Zorzi South,and stands tall on top of the dune, right on the beach at Eagle Bay.
Design: Caroline Di Costa Architect and Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects: Conceptual Framework CASA31_4 Room House re-interprets the role of memory, tradition and social and cultural value in a rich spatial experience that is simultaneous familiar yet unfamiliar. The architecture preserves and reinterprets the past.
Design: Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects: The Nannup Holiday house forms part of a wandering path through the landscape from Perth to Nannup. This path dialogues with the landscape of intense forest, meandering river and rolling hills, each experience is carefully choreographed to enrich the occupancy of the house.
Design: Rolf Ockert Design: the site is located in a heritage conservation area that is fiercely protected by Leichhardt council. Being in one of the few streets in the Inner West Sydney that are still largely original in their streetscape, any alteration or addition was bound to be somewhere between controversial and impossible.
Rolf Ockert Design were approached by a bachelor who had just bought a penthouse apartment in an upmarket suburb of Sydney’s East. The apartment occupied the entire top floor of a 1940’s building and had great views over Sydney harbour.
Design: Rolf Ockert Design: The client had just purchased the site, a small but stunningly located oceanfront property with panoramic views of the Pacific, when they were introduced to me.