Architect: Clinton Murray
Project team: Polly Harbison (Project Architect), Tanja Klocker, Jeff Umansky
Location: Bundeena, New South Wales
Builder: Bellavarde Constructions
Structural Engineer: O’Hearn Consulting
Landscape Architect: 360 degrees
Photographer: Simon Kenny

Huge boulders throughout the cliff side, would have made slapping a wooden prefab house on the top of the plot the easiest option. Choosing instead to hide the house well down the plot near the breaking shoreline, posed challenges, yet rewarded both the architect and owners with stunning results. It also appeased the planning officials and nearby residents.

“The linear site is divided midway by a massive rock face, defining two distinct levels. The natural, sheltered enclave at the base of the rock face is where we believed the building belonged.” Tucked into the hillside, the copper clad roof has set out to weather itself in the ocean green shade of the bay beyond, further minimising the impact of the building for neighbours above. Read the rest of this entry »

Architects: Max Pritchard Architect
Location: Kangaroo Island, SA, Australia
Engineering Consultant: Engineers Pocius & Associates
Project year: 2008
Project Area: 1,548 sqm
Photographs: Sam Noonan & George Apostolid

Southern Ocean Lodge is being described as Australia’s first “Super Lodge”; and has already been named by Tatler Magazine following a worldwide survey as Hotel of the Year 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Architects: Chenchow Little
Location: Sydney, Australia
Project Team: Tony Chenchow, Stephanie Little, Janice Chenchow, Angela Rowson, Jenni Dang
Structural Engineer: Ruggero Benvenuti – Benvenuti S.C Pty Ltd
Builder: Tecorp Constructions Pty Ltd
Project Area: 280 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2008
Photographs: John Gollings

The Freshwater House developed the idea of the operable façade to mediate between the requirements for privacy and shading on a relatively public site adjacent to the beach. The resulting building is made up of three distinct parts; a podium base, a garden/ living space, and a bedroom volume clad with operable screens; each designed with unique spatial and material qualities. Read the rest of this entry »

Architects:  Andrew Maynard Architects
Location: Melbourne, Australia
AMA Team: Andrew Maynard, Mark Austin, Matthew McClurg
Project year: 2008
Constructed Area: 120 sqm
Budget: $500,000
Photographs: AMA

Emerging from behind its high boundary wall, the distorted roof form of Vader House interrupts the symmetrical roof line typical of Fitzroy, and breathes new life into this Victorian Terrace. Read the rest of this entry »

Architect: Max Pritchard
Project Type: Single Family Residence/Studio
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Year: 2008
Photography: Sam Noonan

An idyllic site of winter creek, billabong, large river red gums, dense wattles and rocky banks called for a house that would “touch the earth lightly”. The solution, a narrow bridge like structure spanning the creek providing the experience of living amongst the trees in an almost untouched beautiful setting. Read the rest of this entry »

Architect: Matt Gibson
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Client: Frame Agenda
Year: 2009

Australian architect Matt Gibson has designed a shop interior for the fashion retailer Fame Agenda, located in the Docklands of Melbourne, Australia.

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