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Lake House
Design Competition Canberra, Australia Images by Kim Young Woo & Jong Ho Son The Lake House The new residence of the Prime Minister of Australia is envisioned with a water roof, a plane of water that reflects the changing light and surrounding natural conditions on the lake that dominates the national capital. Symbol of Shared
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Yarra Light Installation
Light Installation Melbourne, Australia Yarra History is in the fabric of the city. While the colonial monuments are set in stone, the history of the First Nations people is in the natural fabric, the landscape. The scarred Red Gum trees near the Melbourne Cricket Ground are cultural heritage, traces of the Warundjeri people of the
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Ultimo Pool
Design Competition – Finalist Sydney, Australia Competition 2nd Stage with Hanson Architects & Hassell This design elevates the pool platform to roof level, creating a street level public park, plaza and community centre below. Freeing up the street level opens up a pedestrian path from the small residential neighbourhood of Ultimo into the city centre.
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Middle Park House
Single Family House – Addition Melbourne, Australia For Buro Architects in association with Kerry Phelan Design Office Images courtesy of KPDO This addition to a large existing house used subtle detailing and a restrained palette of white brickwork and black steel elements to complement and not dominate the existing Art Deco architecture. …
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Roji House
Roji House Tokyo, Japan Roji (露地) is the garden that leads to a traditional Japanese tea house. Literally it means ‘dewy ground’, and represents a transition space between the everyday world and the serenity of the tea house. This house is on a tight site in central Tokyo, and the client requested a tea house
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Ultimo Shopfront
Shopfront Renovation Sydney, Australia For Virginia Kerridge Architects A composition in steel frame glazing with panels of clear glass, translucent glass and brass sheet. …
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Affordable Housing
Design Competition – Judges’ Special Mention Adelaide, Australia For Carnevale & Divall Architects In this design for a medium-density housing block, the apartments interlock with alternating setbacks to ensure each living space catches the sun. …
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Affordable House
Design Competition for Single Family House Melbourne, Australia The design concept is a compact courtyard house expressed in red-coated corrugated steel cladding. The house wraps around a central courtyard to give all spaces light and garden views. The cladding is the outer layer of concrete block veneer construction to give energy efficiency and keep within
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North Fitzroy House
Single Family House – Addition Melbourne, Australia For Carnevale & Divall Architects This small extension to an existing house occupies a small backyard in a tight inner-city residential neighbourhood. The design creates two courtyard gardens connected to the new kitchen, dining and lounge space, bringing natural light and garden views right through the new addition.
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Flinders House
Beach House Victoria, Australia For Maddison Architects Images courtesy of Maddison Architects The concept for this beachside holiday house was a rough and natural character using timber including local unfinished tea tree for sun shading screens. …
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Shinagawa Mixed-use Building
Office Space + Library + Cinema + Gym Tokyo, Japan Conceived as one space occupied by a mix of uses, the volume wraps around a central plaza, rising up from a library and cinema on street level, through office spaces and gym spaces to a garden and swimming pool on the roof. Visual and spatial
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Swanston Apartments Foyer
Interior Renovation Melbourne, Australia For Carnevale & Divall Architects This renovation of the foyer of Melbourne’s historic Swanston Apartments is located in one of the narrow lanes in the city centre. With a miniature budget of just AU$20,000 the design took up the original Art Deco motif on the building’s facade and used it as