Browsing: Australia

Bark Design Architects, a small Australian practice, have designed a studio for themselves that showcases their philosophy of design and provides a great space to work.  The “workhouse”, an elevated steel, glass and plywood studio, “explores the notion of a mixed work / house typology.”  The architects intended for the project to expresses lightness in its modular structural form, transparency, texture, and a seamless indoor to outdoor connection.

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Architect: Supple Design / Eoghan Lewis
Location: Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia
Client: Stockland Property Trust
Structural consultant: HKMA—Phil Mance
Environmental Consultant: Steensen Varming – Chris Arkins
Site area: 950 sqm
Floor area: 130 sqm
Design year: 2004-2005
Construction year: 2005
Photographs: Ian Tatton, Eoghan Lewis

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Architect: Supple Design / Eoghan Lewis
Location: Mernda, Victoria, Australia
Client: Stockland Property Trust
Structural consultant: HKMA—Phil Mance
Site area: 850 sqm
Floor area: 130 sqm
Design year: 2006
Construction year: 2007
Photographs: Shannon McGrath, Eoghan Lewis

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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 Apostolidis

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Architects: Birrelli Architects
Location: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Project Architects: Jack Birrell and Todd Henderson
Project Team: Phil Dingemanse, Gary Fleming
Collaborators: McBride Charles Ryan
Structural Engineer: Engineering Edge
Mechanical and Electrical Engineers: Engineering Solutions
Building Contractor: Matthews Constructions
Project Year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Rob Burnett

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A few months ago, we shared the University of Melbourne’s six short-listed finalists for their new Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning building (short list can be read here).  Of the six finalists, the team of Melbourne-based John Wardle Architects and Boston-based Office dA have been named the winners.  Professor Tom Kvan, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, stated, “The winning design showed a detailed understanding of the teaching and research activities of the Faculty and the potential for contribution to research across the campus.”

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The winners of Australia’s most prestigious award for excellence and innovation in urban design were announced at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra on Tuesday, August 11.

The Australia Award for Urban Design highlights the best of design in the built environment and acknowledges the critical role of good urban design in the development of Australia’s towns and cities.

This year, there were two major winners and a commendation. Description of the winners after the break.

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Australian architects Bellemo & Cat have sent us a few interesting projects that we’ll feature on ArchDaily. The first one is Balga, a coastal house located in the state of Victoria, southeast of Australia. The house was completed in 2006 in Point Lonsdale. See more images and architect’s description, after the break. read more »

Architects: Max Pritchard Architect
Location: Emu Bay, SA, Australia
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Sam Noonan

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Architects: Owen and Vokes
Location: Balmoral , Brisbane, Australia
Project Team: Paul Owen, Stuart Vokes, Aaron Peters, Emma Hodgkinson, Wesley Kelder
Contractor: AJ Ryan Constructions
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Jon Linkins

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Architects: Neeson Murcutt Architects
Location: Sydney, Australia
Principals in Charge: Rachel Neeson, Nicholas Murcutt
Project team: Andrew Burns, Amelia Holiday, Jeff Morgan, Sean Choo, David Coleborne
Builder: Coddington Constructions Pty Ltd
Landscape Architect: Sue Barnsley Design
Structural Engineer: Tihanyi Consulting Engineers
Hydraulic Engineer: ACOR Consultants
Geotechnical: Geotechnique
Joiner: North Shore Custom Cabinetmaking
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Brett Boardman Photography

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Architects: Owen and Vokes
Location: Hervey Bay , Queensland, Australia
Project Team: Paul Owen, Stuart Vokes, Aaron Peters, Emma Hodgkinson, Wesley Kelder
Contractor: Fisherbuilt Homes Pty Ltd
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Jon Linkins

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Architects: Elenberg Fraser Architecture
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Project Management: Baracon
Civil Engineering: Reeds Consulting
Structural Engineering: Robert Bird & Partners
Services Engineering: Norman Disney & Young
Building Surveyor: Garden Group
Fire Engineer: Umow Lai & Associates
Acoustic Engineering: Marshall Day
Wind Engineering: Mel Consultants
Environmental Engineering: ERM
Quantity Surveyors: Slattery Australia
Land Surveyor: Reeds Australia
Geotechnical Engineering: Golders Associates
Project year: 2007
Client: Pan Urban
Photographs: Tony Miller

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Andrew Maynard Architects present this residential alteration and extension to an existing double fronted weatherboard house in Melbourne, Australia. The brief required 2 bathrooms, a bedroom, living area, kitchen and increased connection with outside areas.

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Architects: Max Pritchard Architect
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Consultant: Engineers Pocius & Associates
Constructed Area: 110 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Sam Noonan

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For Andrew Maynard Architects‘ latest design, a holiday home in Anglesea VIC, the clients’ requirement was simple: more space for their growing and aging family.   With the need of the client always in mind, Andrew Maynard Architects set out to create a multi-generational vacation home whose “versatility…allows it to be inhabited simultaneously by all members of the extended family…The design is rigorously addressed at different scales, allowing there to be a certain level of connection and interaction throughout while also providing smaller zones where solace can be found.”

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1:1 Architects shared their design idea for retro fitting high-rise buildings in Melbourne with a modular system of independent green roof structures. The new roof is designed to be installed, modified or even dismantled quite easily.  “Our green roof concept is a flexible modular system, designed to adapt to varying scale rooftops and respond to differing site conditions and functional requirements,” explained the architects.  The roof provides a new atmosphere for the existing buildings where a variety of activities, such as an informal meeting or a simple lunch break, can be held.

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Architect: Nicholas Burns
Location: Johanna beach, Victoria, Australia
Contractor: BDH constructions
Landscape: Indigenous Species
Materials: Rammed earth, Concrete, Steel, Glass
Design year: 2005-2006
Project year: 2007-2008
Photographs: Nicholas Burns

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Architects: John Pardey Architects
Location: Wargrave, Berkshire, England
Project Architect: Henry Goss
Project Manager / Contractor: Ridgetree Construction, Wargrave (Clive Hicks)
Structural Engineer: Barton Engineers, London (Bob Barton)
Project year: 2008
Total Area: 242 sqm
Photographs: Richard Powers & John Pardey Architects

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The University of Melbourne recently selected six finalists for the second phase of designing the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning building.  The new building will consist of educational facilities for staff and students, with a total floor area of nearly 18,000m2.  The competition attracted 133 submissions from more than 15 countries around the world. 

The six selected practices after the break.

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