Breeze Block House in Cove Lane
Design: Architect Prineas. This project is a 1950s home, which has been reconfigured internally. Two outdoor rooms connect the house and garden using a complimentary language to the original.
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Allen Key House in Cove Lane
Design: Architect Prineas. The brief for this project focused on the reconfiguration of the existing house, in order to emphasize the importance of its kitchen. The clients required a long and functional kitchen for a family of four that was able to also cater to entertaining.
T+D Residence in Botany, NSW
Design: Buck & Simple: doers of stuff. A traditional semi-detached house seeks to accommodate a multitude of roles for a young family into a single space. The design incorporates all living areas into one compact, 8mx3.5m volume.
Boat House at McMahons Point, New South Wales
Design: TW Architects. This small cottage nestled in the harbour-side suburb of McMahons Point required new living spaces to accommodate the owners’ expanding lifestyle.
Light & Dark House in Longueville
Design: TW Architects. There are only a few inner-area pockets of Sydney that are bushfire-prone. While the new brick house includes a timber structure, one of the skins concealed below the brick and metal cladding is Firefly.
Artist Studio in Northbridge
Design: TW Architects. The approach to the design of the house at Northbridge, was to create a modern addition that was respectful of the existing house by using a low roofed zone which linked the existing house with the modern two storey addition at the rear.
The Dalmeny, Sydney Housing
Design: Enter Projects. At 7m tall and 9.5m wide, this addition to a federation period style home took only months to complete. The abundant natural light that shines through its wide glass entrance enhances the urban chic vibe from its bright white and green interior.
Tamarama House Sydney: Porebski Architects
Design: Porebski Architects. Situated on a corner site on the hills overlooking Tamarama Beach the house is like a sculpture on the site. With stone forming the base a sculptured curved exterior creates the lighter upper levels.
Hopetoun Avenue House in Vaucluse
Design: b.e architecture. Renovation and extension to a period home: contrasting the solidity of the existing sandstone house, the new addition is a gentle intervention that emerges quietly from the canopy of a beautiful, mature lemon-scented gum tree.
Care Implant Dentistry Centre in Sydney
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.
Balmain Apartment in Sydney
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.
Duplex & the City in Sydney
Design: Luigi Rosselli Pty Ltd – Architects. Shoulder to shoulder with other apartment buildings, the original 1920s two-storey flats were transformed into a four storey block with a basement carpark and cellar, a ground floor garden apartment and a two-storey penthouse.
SICEEP Sydney Darling Harbour Redevelopment
Design: HASSELL + Populous, Architects. The project involves the transformation of this key Sydney precinct through the design of three major public buildings and the unifying public realm.
International Towers at Barangaroo
Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Along with the shading utilise a wide spectrum of environmental features including harbour water heat rejection, solar panels, rainwater capture and recycling, blackwater treatment, there is a basement with parking for three times more bicycles than cars.
Power Lane House in Randwick
Architects: CHORD studio. The design brief asked to extend this house and still maintain and respect the design of the original house, particularly as viewed from the front street.
Harbour Front-Row Seat in Woollahra
Design: Luigi Rosselli, Architects. It is quite rare in Woollahra to have a house waterfront residence so close to the water. One gets the feeling of being in Sydney Harbour when looking out of the oversized wafer-thin framed windows.
Dr Chau Chak Wing Building: UTS Sydney
Design: Gehry Partners LLP with architect Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke. A key construction challenge was the unique, undulating brick façade, comprising of 320,000 bricks, all laid by hand in situ. The bricks, a reference to Sydney’s sandstone heritage, will sit on top of a steel substrate.