Blurred House in Melbourne
The first in a series of studies into the adaptation of vernacular Australian suburban typologies, Blurred House is a major renovation and extension to an original 1930’s Californian bungalow in Melbourne’s inner-north.
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Chestnut House Melbourne: Cremorne
The brief for Chestnut House was to transform an existing heritage listed double fronted two bedroom, inward facing house into a light filled two storey home for a young family, which can be opened up for social events and connect with the outdoors
White House in Beaumaris, Melbourne
The brief from the clients was to create a functional home for a young family, which they could grow into. There was a strong focus on a “hard edge” design with a timeless aesthetic.
Shakin’ Stevens Residence, Melbourne House
Design: Matt Gibson Architecture + Design. The conceptual drive for the interior of this house is largely in response to a brief which crystallised into a need to be connected with ‘green’ space
House in a Warehouse, Melbourne
Design: Splinter Society Architecture. ‘House In a Warehouse’ is a new dwelling in an old warehouse shell, designed to be a ‘garden oasis’. The brief asked for a highly sustainable house, executed in a clean and contemporary way with a ‘warehouse feel’, minus the clichés of industrial off-the-shelf purchases.
Treetop House – Melbourne Residence
Design: Matt Gibson Architecture + Design. The rear addition of this 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.
Concrete House Melbourne
Design: FGR Architects. Inspired by the essence of a home that becomes more beautiful with age, Concrete House by FGR Architects is the result of a two material palette, concrete and glass chosen for their qualities of beatification with time, sustainability, simplicity of build and integration into the building’s existing environment.
Kooyong Residence – Melbourne House
Design: Matt Gibson Architecture + Design. The brief for the renovation of this boom style double fronted Victorian home in Armadale originally called for full demolition (surprisingly – not being within a heritage overlay).
EQ. Tower Melbourne, Residential Building
Design: Elenberg Fraser. A while ago we introduced Igor Kebel, the new Design Director for this architecture studio – the time has come to introduce his first project, which represents a dramatic shift in the Elenberg Fraser design process into a completely parametric environment. Eq.Tower is a teaser for Melbourne’s urban future.
Emporium Melbourne Shopping Centre
Emporium is a high-end, interconnected, urban, vertical retail environment of an extremely high standard. The retail development was required to link to the established, adjacent department stores of Myer and David Jones, as well as GPO Melbourne, The Strand Arcade and Melbourne Central.
Melbourne Park Western Precinct Arena
Procurement begins for second stage of Melbourne Park redevelopment. Work to begin on the $338m second stage of the Melbourne Park redevelopment. Expressions of Interest called to design the new Administration and Media building.
University of Melbourne School of Design News
2nd Skin, University of Melbourne. The 2nd Skin exhibition showcases wearable volumes, deployable envelopes and structures that accommodate the complex geometry of the body. The projects are modeled digitally and fabricated from a 2d cutting template which is output directly through CNC card or laser cutter.
Epping Market Warehouse Project, Melbourne
The Victorian Coalition Government has announced the builder of a major warehousing development for the new state-of-the-art Epping Wholesale Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Market, Minister for Major Projects David Hodgett said today.
“Hansen Yuncken, an experienced Victorian-based construction company has been selected as the builder of market warehousing at Epping”.
Kew House, Victoria Residence
The extension is an example of responsible rationalisation of a typical suburban house which offers a stimulating environment and demonstrates environmentally sustainable design.
Flinders St Station Design – Melbourne
The Australian/Swiss design team of HASSELL, Herzog and De Meuron has won the Flinders Street Station Design Competition, Premier Denis Napthine announced today.
Flinders Street Station – Melbourne
HASSELL + Herzog & de Meuron have won the $1 million international design competition for the redevelopment of the historic Flinders Street Station in the city of Melbourne, Australia.
Flinders Street Station Design Competition
“The response to the People’s Choice vote has been fantastic with thousands of people providing feedback and selecting their favourite design since voting opened last Tuesday,” Dr Napthine said.