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St Vincents Place Residence / B.E Architecture

Hana Abdel — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 01:00:00 +0000

As a modern renaissance home, the St Vincents Place Residence is a reinterpretation of classical references with a modern sensibility. The client, as a patron, put his belief in architecture, artists, and artisans to create an environment that goes beyond surface treatments by inscribing contemplative experiences into the physical form.

Elwood Residence / BE Architecture

Hana Abdel — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Our work is ultimately about people. Our houses are designed to reflect our client’s particular character, history, and story. The renovation and extension to a heritage Edwardian terrace at Ruskin Street bring this narrative full circle, as we completed this project for the child of one of our earliest residential clients from 25 years ago. This ongoing relationship with a client and their family made this project truly special for our office.

Anderson Road House / BE Architecture

Hana Abdel — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 21:00:00 +0000

With each project, we seek to find a sense of identity through a key project material, something the client can take ownership of. At Anderson Road, this came in the form of a brick. The brick denotes the domestic, a singular and humble building block when treated correctly, creates buildings of instant permanence and opportunities for delicate detailing. The dusty pink and red tones of the brick, with the blurring of a flush-struck mortar, reference the client’s heritage while providing the physical and conceptual backbone of the new home.

Armadale Residence / B.E Architecture

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000

The overall feeling of the three-storey residence in Melbourne, Australia is lightness - almost an ethereal floating quality created by the sun refracting over the granite façade. This is a contradiction to the reality of the 260 tons of granite which make up the building’s skin.

Point Nepean Residence / B.E Architecture

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 23:00:00 +0000

The Point Nepean Residence is situated amongst thick tea tree parklands overlooking Portsea Pier and Port Phillip Bay. The façade was created using imported Travertine from Eco Outdoor, a product that will withstand everything the peninsula weather may throw at it.

Mermaid Beach Residence / BE Architecture

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The Mermaid Beach Residence is a new family home positioned along a surf beach in Queensland. Working with clients with a strong appreciation of concrete, the building was designed primarily of exposed concrete internally, as well as externally, with the addition of operable timber shutters on the external windows.

Canterbury Road Residence / B.E Architecture

Sabrina Leiva — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Like a naturally occurring trilithon found in rock formations, the Canterbury Road Residence is made up of three simple structures, clad in rough lavastone stacked to form a contemplative passageway. The separation between the forms is made apparent as though they are three large boulders leaning on one another. The organic nature of the hand laid stone walls draws one from the street into the heart of the house; the upper level forms the lentil over the entry.

Bass Street Residence / B.E Architecture

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:00:00 +0000

A stacked rectilinear form, Bass Street Residence uses a series of subtly angled walls in opposing directions so the building composition creates a slight sense of tension between the property’s two key outlooks. A singular cutout in the front façade angles towards distant water views from the master bedroom.

McIlwrick Residences / B.E Architecture

Nico Saieh — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:00:35 +0000

The McIlwrick Street Residences are a three-townhouse development located on a single residential block in Windsor. Like an old European village, the development is a small cluster of buildings you can see through and walk between such that the significant addition feels as though it could have always been there.

Whitehall Road Residence / B.E Architecture

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 07 May 2015 17:00:20 +0000

The house at Whitehall Road is positioned at the crest of a hill, to take advantage of sweeping views of the surrounding landscape. A grove of mature gum trees inform the location of the house; their tall and slender trunks countering the low horizontality of the building and providing shade to the pool and deck areas.

Hopetoun Residence / B.E Architecture

Karen Valenzuela — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

A tree house with harbour views

Ross Street / BE Architecture

Javier Gaete — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This new house in the Melbourne suburb of Toorak was designed for a family of Singaporean heritage and is an interpretation of the Asian courtyard house typology for an Australian urban setting. A series of courtyards are subtracted from the form to create a level of openness that allows the residents to see through the spaces. The courtyards punctuate the delineation of space, which is more pronounced in a courtyard house than contemporary, open-plan design.

Blake Street / B.E Architecture

Jonathan Alarcón — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The house at Blake Street is a response to the blend of coastal and rural characteristics evident at the site. The dominant feature of the house is the massive stone podium which allows for the ruggedness of the site to be preserved without compromising the utility of the house. By elevating the house, it has the feel of being in the trees, and allows the indigenous vegetation of the site to come right up to the house. The stonework is also a reference to the strong presence of many of the older buildings in the surrounding area, which feature stone plinths of identical white Maffra stone and similar rudimentary construction.

Cassell Street House / b.e architecture

Diego Hernández — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Cassell Street house is a boutique new home built on a corner block in South Yarra, built in place of an attached Edwardian row house and set amongst homes of a similar vintage. The house was designed to be sympathetic with the period but not mimetic of any particular style, whilst remaining unapologetically contemporary.

57 Tivoli Road / b.e. Architecture

Andrew Rosenberg — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Tivoli Road house is a private residence, located on a rare inner-city corner site located within a streetscape of mixed housing stock. Its location allowed us to explore both built form and materials selection, and is designed to act as a bookend to the other houses in its block. The exposed corner site meant a protective building was required for both visual and acoustic privacy, and the design seeks to create an enclosed shelter for the occupants. To enhance the building’s reading as a single object, a single external material was chosen – bluestone. The bluestone was selected for its durability and ability to age kindly, while being sourced locally allowed the construction costs to be lowered. In order to create movement in the external faces, a paneling technique was developed using the diamond sawn bluestone in varying thickness and panel widths – the “chattered” effect the stone created meant we could push the limit of residential architecture to a more brutal, minimal built form.

2a Seacombe Grove / b.e. Architecture

Andrew Rosenberg — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Seacombe Grove is a family home on a corner block, abutting five lanes of traffic with the associated noise. As such the exposed corner site required a protective building to shelter the occupants.