To maximise the expanse of a narrow-lot home, the design concept considers the entire site as a ‘room’ for this house in Perth by Craig Steere Architects. A clear glass box on the ground floor, and a simplified cantilevered box hovering above form the architectural design solutions that blur the boundaries between the inside and outside of this home. […]
Designed for a semi-retired couple and occasionally their adult children, this house has been a labour of love for the owner who built it over five years to a high level of detail. EHDO’s response to the site was met by its challenges: a sewer easement dividing the site and long elevations facing east/west. Design […]
Woods Bagot has designed the newly opened riverside pier as part of the Rockhampton Riverside Precinct, a project to revitalise the riverside district of the rural Queensland city. The practice chose materials that nod to the community’s historical past of gold, silver and copper mining and to signify a new age of economic and cultural growth after the […]
Located at the site of the former Paramount Pictures Studio, the Paramount House hotel embraces the historical significance of the site and its surrounding context. Designed by Melbourne-based Breathe Architects the hotel occupies a three-storey 1930s brick corner warehouse amid a suite of heritage and inter-war buildings in Sydney’s Surry Hills. The idea behind the design […]
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