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Melbourne Place Hotel / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Melbourne Place is a new independent hotel accommodated in a "complete design"; a new building with fully integrated interiors, carried out by a single team. Our work included collaborating on the development of the hotel brand in conjunction with Client Josh Taylor, brand agency Studio Round, and Hotel Managing Director Tracy Atherton. The design of the building, the interiors, and the hotel brand have informed each other from the very beginning, such that the identity of this hotel is expressed in every part of the physical object. Sensibilities around space, volume, light, colour, texture, and detail are consistent from the urban scale down to the cabinet hardware, lending a sense of substance, a complete vision, each element reinforcing and amplifying the unique character of the place.

Nightingale Village Leftfield / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Nightingale is a model for triple-bottom-line developments. This development was led by the Architect to produce medium-density housing that is environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable. Combining ethical investors and best practices in design, the ultimate goal of Nightingale is to provide great-value housing by simplifying both the development process and the building itself.

Wilam Ngarrang Residence / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:00:00 +0000

The key intention of this project is to create a financially replicable model of a low environmental impact retrofit that reduces operating costs for inhabitants. More broadly, the project is a prototype to explore and investigate the social and financial benefits of retrofitting existing apartment blocks in Melbourne's inner city.

Up There Store / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 01 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000

As part of a major refresh of the Up There brand, Kennedy Nolan was asked to design a new flagship store on Flinders Lane – a street synonymous with innovation, design, hospitality, and fashion. The brand refresh provided immediate inspiration, providing a playful palette of saturated color. We were inspired by the distinctive space: partially subterranean and characterized by a deep plan opening up at its farthest point to the atmospheric urban gloom of Sargood Lane.

Flinders House / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 01:00:00 +0000

A spectacular site is both a gift and a problem for new architecture. The positives are self-evident, the negatives less so, but apparent in single-orientation, glassy boxes which proliferate on such sites. Aware of this, we were conscious of balancing the canonical attributes of aspect, prospect, and refuge without allowing the prospect part to distort the equilibrium of an ideal domestic setting. Our Client came to us with this site accommodating a radically altered Chancellor and Patrick house on the highly unstable cliff edge. Our attempts to preserve and restore the house were thwarted by the structural necessity to place it on 15-meter-deep piles, without which the house was in real danger of sliding onto the beach. Our approach then was to “remember” the house by largely reconstructing its form and arrangement, augmented by a perpendicular element that provided additional accommodation and solved the problems of vehicular and pedestrian access. A single-bedroom and bathroom guesthouse higher up the site completes our work here.

Milkbar House / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This project consists of work to a much-loved building typology which is seldom seen these days – a corner milk bar with the Owner’s residence attached - in this case the house is a handsome but unremarkable late Victorian block fronted weatherboard. Our brief was for a conventional family home, but our Clients had some specific requests – a very large garage and a large productive garden. Large garages and vegetable gardens can be tricky to get looking good when space is limited.

The Lothian Residential Building / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Hana Abdel — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 19:00:00 +0000

The Lothian project draws on an approach to Architecture that is being continually developed at Kennedy Nolan. There are a number of motivations or tendencies in our practice that explain our approach. We want to be contemporary, in the sense that we want to reflect the culture and sensibility of the present. However, we also want to add dimension, meaning, and richness to contemporary architectural expression through memory. Through evoking memory, and through making memorable architecture.

Hawthorn House / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Andreas Luco — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Our work on 10-12 Kooyongkoot Road Hawthorn is just the latest in an extensive and diverse range of architectural assaults visited upon this grand old dame. We believe that the particular significance of the house is as an unusual hybrid with more than one heritage expression of great value.

CL28 Monash University Learning Spaces / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 02:00:00 +0000

The ‘Centrally Managed Teaching and Maths Learning Centre’ (CL28) is a series of formal and informal learning spaces within an existing building at Monash University. The informal spaces were to offer flexible and social spaces that facilitate student engagement; places to encourage learning, creativity, collaboration and engagement with community and industry.

Housing Choices Australia Dandenon / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 23:00:00 +0000

Housing Choices Australia (HCA) is a national, not-for-profit housing association that creates safe, quality, affordable housing for people who are struggling to find a home in Australia’s challenging private rental market.

Caroline House / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Valeria Silva — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:00:00 +0000

This project is an alteration and addition to a weatherboard Edwardian house in inner Melbourne. We restored and re-imagined the existing house and added a pavilion which is separated from the original building by an internal courtyard containing a swimming pool.

Sandy Point House / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Andreas Luco — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Perched on the coastal dunes of eastern Victoria, this is a holiday house for a family who have a long association with the modest beachside hamlet of Sandy Point. Almost three hours from Melbourne, this house is designed not so much for weekends as for extended stays - in both summer and winter.

Oak House / Kennedy Nolan Architects

María Francisca González — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 23:00:00 +0000

A project in the venerable tradition of alterations and additions to heritage houses - a testing ground for Architect’s ideas. This adaptive re-use of a double fronted Victorian house incorporates a re-working of the existing house, a new pavilion forming a central court yard, a garage and workshop building to the rear laneway and a small swimming pool. The house is distinctive for its mature Oak tree which towers above the garden and a red steel brise-soleil which performs many functions, including that of sun-shading.

Fitzroy Lane House / Kennedy Nolan Architects

María Francisca González — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 18:00:00 +0000

A house in an unforgiving laneway context has been imagined as a robust, simplified form- a container for family life principally concerned with providing refuge. The tight vertical space is ameliorated through a memorable threshold and ascent rising to the principle living areas and opening to a startling city prospect.

Deepdene House / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 16:00:00 +0000

The family commissioning this house had lived on the site for many years and after a short-lived move to a much larger house and garden in a nearby street concluded that they felt very connected to their old street and its people. The existing house couldn’t cope with their large family of seven and an investigation of alterations and additions to the existing house led them to the conclusion that a new house was required.

Maitland House / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 16:00:00 +0000

This is an alteration and addition to a post-war brick veneer house.

Westgarth House / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The site is on a corner in a leafy street. The area is quiet and would not feel out of place in a country town. The longest boundary faces north and abuts a generous grass nature strip.

St Kilda West / Kennedy Nolan Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Our task in designing this house was to accommodate a family on a sloping site – long and relatively narrow and incorporating an existing Victorian house. We also needed to ensure that the highly serviced building minimised energy use through passive solar design.