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Alexandria House / Lachlan Seegers Architect

Hana Abdel — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 03:00:00 +0000

Located within a suburb that has witnessed radical transformation over the past 150 years, this terrace house was constructed in 1886 as part of a row of seven single-story terrace houses erected simultaneously in various styles. The passage of time and the shifting demographic of the suburb resulted in the single-story terrace falling into a state of utter disrepair. It was therefore decided that the existing, street-facing contributory structure should be restored and nurtured whilst the rear, dilapidated structures that had accumulated over its lifetime should be removed to make way for a new method of occupying the site.

Tree Island House / Carter Williamson Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 24 May 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Tree Island is a family home that rises above its constraints, turning its limitations into its most striking features. Just four and a half meters wide internally, it maximizes space by reaching up high against the neighboring warehouse conversion to the south. A substantial void at the center of the home connects the living, dining, and kitchen spaces, its long, north-facing skylight illuminating every element of the family life cradled gently within.

Smart Design Studio Offices / Smart Design Studio

Hana Abdel — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:00:00 +0000

The readapted industrial building houses a purpose-designed studio for Australian multi-disciplinary design practice, Smart Design Studio. A mezzanine with four meeting rooms overlooks the light-filled space through the existing slender steel trusses. A dramatic caretaker’s apartment on the top floor runs the length of the building.

Arkadia / Breathe Architecture + DKO

Paula Pintos — Wed, 20 May 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Arkadia started as a series of considerations that questioned the nature of multi-residential development in Australia;

Dangrove Art Space / Tzannes

Andreas Luco — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:00:00 +0000

The brief for DANGROVE demanded a new approach to standard museum art storage to support the requirements of the client’s nearby gallery. It required art storage to be integrated with curatorial, conservation, research, library, workshop, administration, exhibition and performance spaces and other related functions.

Aquas Perma Solar Firma House / CplusC Architectural Workshop

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:00:00 +0000

Located in a former light industrial area, AQUAS PERMA SOLAR FIRMA reconsiders the terrace typology stamped along Sydney’s streets and provides a site sensitive response to a functional brief. The clients were keen to experiment how their site might work harder for them in the realms of energy and food production.

Alexandria House 5 / Pivot

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:00:00 +0000

The project is for a full re-build of an existing one-bedroom terrace into a three-bedroom double story dwelling with rear studio and garage at the rear of the site. Only the front façade was retained and it has been carefully restored with new front roof housing a dorma window and new contemporary fence defining the front streetscape.

The Roc Rail Operations Centre / Jacobs + Smart Design Studio

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 21 May 2019 05:00:00 +0000

The new Rail Operations Centre for Sydney Trains was designed by Jacobs in association with Smart Design Studio. The concept for the building was born from a very specific brief, which called for a vast top-lit, solid-walled control room atop several floors of open commercial workspace. This presented an opportunity to create a unique building that positively contributed to the new urban fabric of the Green Square city center, expressing its function as a piece of railway infrastructure.

Alexandria House 3 / Pivot

Andreas Luco — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:00:00 +0000

The project is the reconfiguration of a dilapidated single story terrace to meet the requirements of contemporary living. The front façade is restored and existing internal brick detailing retained, expressed and painted white throughout. The design proposes an extra level to accommodate three bedrooms with bathroom, ensuites and complete re-configuration of the ground floor. The rear façade is distinguished by a black aluminium louver used to limit heat gain on to the western window and to control sight lines into neighbouring yards.The material palette is clean and minimal, with predominantly white brick and cabinetry, black trim, natural timber and stone tile.

Imprint House / Anderson Architecture

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 18:00:00 +0000

Like many homes we’ve encountered over the years, on our first site visit to Alexandria we found a pokey, dark terrace disconnected from its backyard. Our clients also clearly needed more space and storage – hard to achieve on a site less than 140 square meters.

41 Birmingham / SJB

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:00:00 +0000

41 Birmingham aimed to deliver an affordable high-quality residential apartment project into the fine-grained, post-industrial suburb of Alexandria, south of Sydney. The client’s ambitions for this project were for an exemplary residential apartment project with an attention to detail comparable to a single bespoke dwelling, albeit within a multi-residential budget and construction program. The building references the historical thread of Alexandria’s context while focusing on the future occupiers, to create a sense of place and comfort.

Alexandria Area High School / Cuningham Group Architecture

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 14:00:45 +0000

Alexandria, Minnesota is ranked as one of the fastest growing micropolitan cities in Minnesota. The city is often referred to as the “Silicon Valley of Packaging,” as it is home to a number of automated packaging machinery manufacturing plants. The city is also surrounded by over 10 lakes, which makes it a tourist and resort attraction. The local industries and City amenities played a key factor in the programming and design of the new high school.

AD Classics: Bibliotheca Alexandrina / Snøhetta

David Langdon — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina on Egypt’s Mediterranean Coast is a spectacular, state-of-the-art facility with an unresolved architectural identity. Commissioned in 1989 as a contemporary resurrection of the fabled Library at Alexandria once venerated throughout the ancient world, the present building was intended to serve as a city’s connection to history and heritage. But its stark modernity and technological innovations make it decidedly more forward-looking than historically referential, a cosmopolitan exploration of form and engineering perhaps longing for a stronger sense of regional belonging.

Alexandria House 2 / Pivot

Fernanda Castro — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The project is for the full rebuild of an existing Terrace House. The front façade and front roof form is retained and restored for heritage reasons and the remodeled rear form responds to cues found in the existing context and the previous dwelling which occupied the site.

KTA Details Australia’s Largest Urban Renewal Project

Karissa Rosenfield — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Koichi Takada Architects (KTA) has released details on Australia’s biggest urban renewal project: Green Square. Shaped by the pedestrian and traffic flows that surround the building, the mixed-use, multi-residential complex is expected to serve as the gateway of Sydney’s Green Square Town Centre by its completion in 2016.

Komai Residence / Robert M. Gurney Architect

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 01:00:00 +0000

A small, triangular corner lot in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia, was largely considered too small to accommodate a new house. For years, this lot mostly served the neighborhood as a dog walking park. Zoning setbacks, and a height limit consistent with the adjacent primarily one story bungalows, craftsman style houses and small colonials, reduced the buildable footprint and building envelope significantly. In addition, two off-street parking spaces were required. Developers struggled to provide a house that was both similar in style to neighboring houses and would fit onto the lot.