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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Architects Eat, Australia NewZealand, Courtyard architecture, James Coombe, Stair, Timber
Open House is an Australian house designed by Architects EAT. The internal planning strategies are devoted to the layering of spaces, and orchestrating the sequences in a mise-en-scene liked methodology. Architects EAT have opened up the interior, got rid of the original rabbit warren internal walls, and starting from the dramatic suspended black raw steel [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Architecture Award, Australia NewZealand, Events/News
This is about 2 weeks left for Think Brick Awards 2011 entries, have you submitted yours? The Think Brick Awards for 2011 is one of the richest design awards in Australia, it is not too late for architects and students to submit an innovative brick design for a chance to win the About Face Student [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Cladding, ESD design, PHOOEY architects, Stair
Recently completed by Australian architectural practice PHOOEY Architects, this new double storey four bedroom house rests in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. All the public and private spaces have a variety of long views oriented towards the scenic parkland. Depending on the rooms location and aperture, the parkland is captured in a different light. Sunlight [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Australia NewZealand, Competition, Events/News
Brisbane Airport Corporation working in association with City Lab is pleased to announce BNE: Making Connections: An architecture and urban design competition for Brisbane Airport that is open to all registered Australian architects. If you are interested in entering, please join Andrew and BAC General Property Manager Renaye Peters for the competition briefing, followed by [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Australia NewZealand, BKK architects, Timber
Boundary House by BKK architects is a private house in Melbourne Vic, Australia, the placement of the existing residence on the site presented a series of rather awkward residual spaces. The brief was to increase the size of the residence and retain a sense of landscape. Orientation of the residence meant that the existing kitchen [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, BKK architects, Folding architecture, Landscape architecture, Swimming pool, Timber
Entering this home begins with the decision to leave the city. The recurring ritual that plays out in the journey to the holiday home is integral to the conception of this house: the car and its contained interior; the stop off for provisions in the last town before arrival; getting out and unchaining the entry [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, BKK architects, Cladding, Swimming pool
Designed by Australian firm BKK architects, this project has been undertaken for a couple and their children of varying ages. It includes alterations to an existing Edwardian House and a new separate studio to the rear of the site. The house is designed so that the spaces within and around the house will be adaptable [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand, Courtyard architecture, Timber
ASPECT Studios designed a private terrace garden in Birchgrove, Sydney, Australia. Giant black bamboo, one off in situ concrete details and Australian native hardwood creates a beautifully considered external space. Multi use spaces are created by the layout of these well crafted elements. Sculptural concrete walls double as seating back rests and mediate level changes. [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand, Public square
The brief for the Former Water Police Site was to develop a new public park for a 1.8 hectare parcel of post industrial land on the Pyrmont peninsula. The prime location of the site on Sydney’s waterfront offered the unique opportunity for the creation of memorable public parkland for both local users and the wider [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand, Random pattern
Context Jacaranda Square, “The Everyday Stadium” is the first new public space in Sydney Olympic Park to sit within the framework of the Sydney Olympic Park 2030 Master Plan. The master plan sets a new urban framework that is intended to refocus the Olympic legacy of event and spectacle into a finely grained, sustainable town [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Architecture Award, Australia NewZealand
Last month, we introduced the Think Brick Awards 2011 for Australian architects and designers to submit their projects to explore how creative and innovative in use of clay brick. And now, Think Brick has just launched the Horbury Hunt Award, it is the time to submit yours. Sydney design entry Balfour Street Park Pocket took [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Mixed Use, Office Tags: Australia NewZealand, PTW Architects, Refurbishment / Extension, Skyscrapers
In June 2010 PTW Architects won a limited competition among five Australian practices for a complex mixed-used project in the heart of Sydney’s central business and retail district. A development application was lodged in December 2010 and has just been approved by Sydney City Council. On a complex consolidated site within the CBD of Sydney, [...]
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