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Lavender Bay House / Durbach Block Jaggers

Hana Abdel — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 19:00:00 +0000

The house is located on a steeply sloping site along a street characterized by a continuous sandstone retaining wall.

Fig Tree Pocket / Smart Design Studio

Hana Abdel — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:00:00 +0000

Fig Tree Pocket is an enclave of four buildings arranged around three green gardens, each with a unique character and purpose. The architecture is modern and classical at the same time, created through a limited palette coupled with an architecture of rhythm and unity. The building forms are created through consideration of passive solar design, privacy, access to views, and natural cross-ventilation. They were designed in harmony with the landscape and therefore have a restrained elegant demeanor.

Town Hall House / Smart Design Studio

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:00:00 +0000

Town Hall House is exemplary of Sydney Brutalist architecture. Designed by Ancher, Mortlock and Woolley in 1977, the 23-storey tower was built behind Sydney Town Hall to provide a central location for Sydney Council. The building now accommodates approximately one thousand City of Sydney staff and is a high profile element of the City’s corporate presentation and customer service ethos.

Arlington Grove Residential Building / Smart Design Studio

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Catalysed by the extension of Sydney’s light rail to Dulwich Hill, and a consequential land rezoning for medium-density housing, Smart Design Studio’s Masterplan for Arlington Grove realises a beautifully landscaped residential precinct. This former industrial site has been converted into 246 apartments and a retail space arrayed around leafy courtyards and lanes. At an urban scale the site is conceived of as a considered edge to Johnson Park which sits to the north-west and, at a finer grain, a continuation of the street network to the south-east.

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.

Woollahra Courtyard House / CO-AP

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:00:00 +0000

A new four bedroom home has been designed for an empty nester couple and three generations of extended family visitors. Built on the site of a 1970s single-story courtyard house, the former dwelling was designed with a gabled roof in keeping with a neighboring weatherboard cottage which presently no longer exists. Taking cues from its predecessor the new house is planned around a courtyard and responds to its current neighboring context of two-storey dwellings.

Brougham Place / Smart Design Studio

Valentina Villa — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Brougham Place is a bold courtyard building in the inner-Sydney suburb of Potts Point. The brief called for a home, office and studio; and the owners brought with them a love of their dense, inner-urban neighbourhood and a passion for Le Corbusier’s houses. They sought a place to live and work that would reflect both the rough grain of the streetscape and their modernist inspiration.

The Pavillion / Jorge Hrdina Architects

Valentina Villa — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 17:00:00 +0000

The Pavilion is an entertaining space for family and friends. This crafted contemporary building sits on a double block in Mosman, Sydney, with views of ships coming through the iconic Sydney Heads. The Pavilion shares the block with its older sister – a 19th century Queen Anne heritage house whose intricately hand crafted details are complemented by the form and materiality of The Pavilion.

Roji Salon / Craig Tan Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:00:00 +0000

Evoking a journey of renewal, the Roji Salon is a compact boutique salon adjoining Hotel Hotel in the NewActon Nishi Development in Canberra.

Camperdown Childcare / CO-AP

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 01:00:00 +0000

This project sensitively inserts new architecture into a former industrial warehouse building, located in the inner west of Sydney, for a new 80-place childcare centre.

Australian Institute of Architects Announces 2014 NSW Awards

Rory Stott — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The Australian Institute of Architects announced its 2014 NSW Architecture Awards in a ceremony held in Sydney last night. Among the 42 Awards and 18 Commendations given out, perhaps the biggest winner was Neeson Murcutt Architects, whose Prince Alfred Park + Pool Upgrade won the Sulman Medal for Public Architecture, the Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Architecture, and was a joint winner of the City of Sydney Lord Mayor's Prize.

Annandale House / CO-AP

Jonathan Alarcón — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The conceptual framework for this project is very much influenced by its context. The long narrow site is closely bounded by residential units to the south-west and the Piano Factory warehouse apartment conversion to the north. The west and east offer framed views to established trees and green streetscape respectively.