“From a distance the building appears to ripple and bulge, while close-up the individual apartments become legible. The undulating form has a performative effect by minimising the wind downdraft at street level.” AR magazine talks to Caleb Smith of Elenberg Fraser about the studio's golden tower, Abode318.
The ‘crowd-sourced’ multi-residential project is emerging as an alternative approach in an increasingly impenetrable Australian housing market. Among the first was Breathe Architecture’s much-celebrated The Commons, with the beleaguered Nightingale project looking to follow suit.
This apartment, within the historically significant Foy and Gibson warehouse complex, had over time succumbed to a series of dubious conversions. Breathe Architecture reignites the space while sparking connections with the past.
Lune de Sang is a unique intergenerational venture that will see a former dairying property in northern NSW transformed into a sustainably harvested forest.
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