Projects
PROJECT
3 YEARS AGO
The new home of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music celebrates the activities of music rehearsal and practice – a green room for Melbourne's arts precinct. Outwardly focused and inviting, the building balances the singular concentration required of students with the camaraderie of engaging with others. The building is a place to rub shoulders with fellow music students, and the artistic milieu of the wider campus and precinct.
PROJECT
3 YEARS AGO
We focused our attention away from conventional solutions to investigate highly bespoke and cost effective alternatives. The Sawmill House demonstrates how Australia’s growing hoard of latent building materials can be used in new and innovative ways.
PROJECT
3 YEARS AGO
This home challenges the ideals of larger house living and proves that with good design, volume and spatial layout 80m2 of space can feel generous and comfortable to live in. The form is essentially a rectangle with carved out niches that provide sense of address, privacy and shelter.
PROJECT
3 YEARS AGO
The Northern Steamship Company, one of New Zealand’s original coastal shipping companies, opened its offices in the Quay Street building in 1899. Closing shortly after the company sold its fleet in 1974 the building languished until a refurbishment was undertaken in 2005, the first heritage building to be refurbished in the Britomart Precinct.
PROJECT
3 YEARS AGO
The people, places and ideas changing our cities one enclave at a time: The Scrap Yard is a small-but-potent commercial development on a back street in Auckland’s Grey Lynn.
PROJECT
3 YEARS AGO
The man of the house is a principal architect for a design studio, who wants to have an ideal house for his family and a small studio for his architecture office, while his wife is a pioneer in the user experience service field in Indonesia. The combination of both brings the design to a level, where it possesses a rare and incomparable space experience for each occupant.
PROJECT
3 YEARS AGO
The front door to this villa in Grey Lynn might look typical, but it’s a portal to another time and place.
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3 YEARS AGO
The designer highlights the design concept towards the interior of the building by removing the indoors and outdoors boundaries. As a result, the concept introduces open spaces in each floor and place them between functional rooms.
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3 YEARS AGO
Andrew Barrie investigates Jasmax’s new Western Springs College and Ngā Puna o Waiōrea Campus and finds spatially exciting buildings at a dramatic scale but he wonders where all the ‘stuff’ has gone.
PROJECT
3 YEARS AGO
Federico Monsalve examines Zespri’s new Tauranga headquarters by Warren and Mahoney and finds an interior that subtly intertwines the language of the orchard with that of the corporate workplace.