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The Bond Commercial Building / fitzpatrick+partners

Hana Abdel — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000

The Bond is an innovative six-story engineered timber office building located in a suburban business park approximately 30km from Sydney. The building integrates 10,500m² of commercial office space, health consultation, and treatment rooms, a childcare facility, and a ground floor supporting retail uses. It is the first of 3 buildings to edge a new food and beverage plaza precinct. The site is part of the Cumberland Plain, lands of the Dhargug Nation, being the inland Aboriginal peoples of the Sydney hinterland. The original grasslands were rich in animals and plants and sustained these peoples for Millennia. The area was developed in the late 1700s as one of Australia’s first farms, with the actual building site being an early brickworks, creating the bricks for the expansion of the suburbs north of Sydney harbor in the 1950s. It has subsequently been redeveloped as a new residential and working park.

Capella Sydney Hotel / Make Architects + BAR Studio

Paula Pintos — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Located 400m from Sydney Harbour, the heritage-listed former Department of Education building, part of the historic Sandstone Precinct, has reopened as the 5-star Capella Sydney Hotel. Make Architects was appointed by Pontiac Land Group to sensitively restore and remodel this former Edwardian Baroque-style governmental landmark for new uses, significantly opening the ground floor to be fully accessible to the public for the first time, with BAR Studio designing the refined new interiors throughout the hotel.

The Surry Residential Building / Angelo Candalepas and Associates

Hana Abdel — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 05:00:00 +0000

I had wanted to create a building that would offer something to the walking Sydney-sider; an urban building that was made with humans in mind; a building that was able to offer a smile to people as they walk toward the city and an even bigger smile to them as they walk away.
Angelo Candalepas 2019

Punchbowl Mosque / Candalepas Associates

Andreas Luco — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 01:00:00 +0000

The project seeks to establish a new home for the Australian Islamic Mission and provide a complex of buildings to facilitate learning and religious worship for local community members that follow the Muslim faith. The development is to be constructed in two stages, with Stage 1 being the construction of the Mosque accommodating approximately 300 worshippers and Stage 2 being the construction of community buildings.

PCYC Northern Beaches / fjmt

Rayen Sagredo — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Located on the edge of the Dee Why town centre, the new PCYC Community Centre provides an entertainment hub for the peninsula’s youngest residents. It is conceived as a cloud like form settling on a pedestal that emerges from the ground. The counterpoint achieved by these two form types express in built form the dual program of community centre over the car park.

Bunjil Place / fjmt

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:00:00 +0000

Bunjil Place is a library, a performance theatre, a public gathering space, a place of exhibition, gallery and display, a flexible and experimental space for events, lectures, debate and celebration, it is a help point, a service centre and a place of work and collaboration. Above all perhaps, it is a place where all of this overlaps and interconnects and at the centre is the interconnecting fluid form of the foyer gathering space, a non-hierarchical space that unifies the complex.

Aurora Place / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 19:00:00 +0000

An office and apartments skyscraper in the historical district of Sydney, designed to be human and hospitable, like a vertical village. The use of double-skin, in this case, gives lightness to the building, and acts as a temperature regulator, thus saving valuable energy. To celebrate the Olympic Games in Sydney in the year 2000 the Australian corporation, Lend Lease Development, initiated and commissioned the design and construction of a commercial tower and a residential building. At first sight, the buildings seem to be an exercise in pure form, as if they were sails that rise until they suddenly adopt the shape of an unfolding fan. In fact, however, the building's striking form also incorporates functionality, sociability, and technological innovation.

Wynyard Walk / Woods Bagot

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:00:00 +0000

In the heart of Sydney sits Wynyard Walk: a fully accessible pedestrian link designed around the concept of ‘flow’. The design challenges the perception of a transport interchange, shifting the emphasis from efficiency of travel to the quality of experience, with the forms optimised to capture the largest volume of space and ease pedestrian movements through its curved profiles, rounded corners and sinuous forms.

580 George Street Lobby Upgrade / fjmt

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:00:00 +0000

In one of the busiest intersections for both foot-traffic and commuters, we have sought to reinterpret the typical Sydney street awning to one that is dynamic and responsive to its urban context. The design captures the imagination and reflects the identity of a forward thinking client; while incorporating contemporary design and finishes that complement the art deco style of the commercial tower.

Armory Wharf / Lahznimmo Architects

Daniela Cardenas — Fri, 27 May 2016 17:00:00 +0000

Adaptive reuse of Building 13 as a café was completed in 2007 as part of the Blaxland Riverside Park, within the historic Newington Armory precinct at Sydney Olympic Park. When Building 13 was destroyed by fire in November 2007, Sydney Olympic Park Authority (SOPA) engaged lahznimmo architects to design a new café on the site of the original.

Bowen Place Crossing / lahznimmo architects

Florencia Mena — Thu, 05 May 2016 20:00:00 +0000

In 2011 lahznimmo architects won an invited competition for the design of a new pedestrian and cyclist crossing in Bowen Place, Canberra.

Swinburne University of Technology Factory of the Future / H2o architects

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 16:00:00 +0000

The future is now and Swinburne University is shaping this future at their new Factory of the Future. This Factory owes its success to the creative use of contemporary and emerging technologies. The Factory is a showcase for education and research in the next generation of manufacturing processes. Its focus is a two storey timber dome like ball constructed in the centre of the Factory space, manufactured from a curved timber substructure, covered with an intelligent panelised curved timber skin.

Westmead Millennium Institute / BVN

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:00:00 +0000

“The Westmead Millennium Institute brings together staff from six sites across the Westmead Hospital campus; facilitating a regrouping of divergent research groups within a singular place of calm engagement.

Milson Island Indoor Sports Stadium / Allen Jack+Cottier Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:00:00 +0000

Allen Jack+Cottier adopted an imaginative approach to materials, structure and form when designing this multi-purpose hall on Milson Island in the Hawkesbury River, NSW.

Sydney Cruise Terminal / Johnson Pilton Walker Architects

Javier Gaete — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Sydney Cruise Terminal is a new cruise facility located in Sydney Harbour, to serve Australia’s rapidly expanding leisure cruise industry. The design features a contemporary roof canopy draped from a historically significant gantry crane structure. The structure has been retained as a memory of the site’s previous use as a home port for the world’s first regular international containerized shipping service, commencing operations between Sydney and Europe in the late 1960’s.

Prince Henry Community Centre / Lahznimmo Architects

Andrew Rosenberg — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:00:00 +0000

The coastal site for the community centre lies amongst the manicured landscape of the Coast Golf Club and overlooks Little Bay Beach where Christo and Jeanne-Claude famously wrapped the coast in 1969. Immediately to the north of the site is a small chapel, the only built element to puncture the eastern horizon. The chapel is used for non-denominational services and weddings and considered as something of a local landmark.

School of Information Technologies / FJMT

Nico Saieh — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The School of Information Technologies building (SIT) transforms a derelict site adjacent to one of Sydney’s major arterial roads into a new campus gateway. It also sets a new benchmark for the University of Sydney with respect to environmental initiatives and excellence in the provision of contemporary workplace and teaching environments.

The Mint / FJMT

Nico Saieh — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Mint Project is the transformation of one of Sydney’s oldest and most precious historical sites on Macquarie Street into a new meaningful public place formed and characterised as much by the carefully inserted contemporary buildings as the conserved and adapted heritage structures. It is a project that seeks to set a new and important benchmark for: