Tag: architecture
Nicky Drobis, design director at Fender Katsalidis chats to ADR about Yarra One – the studio’s 26-storey, landmark building in South Yarra’s Forrest Hill precinct. The building comprises 268 apartments, as well as a range of shared amenity spaces including a library, dining room, state-of-the-art gym, wellness retreat and wine room. Meanwhile, on the ground floor […]
How best to manage 360-degree views of Melbourne became a central question for architectural practice BOarch when employed to renovate a penthouse apartment spread over two floors of a mid-century tower complex in Toorak. Known as ‘The Tower in the Park’, the eight-storey building is centred on a large site, disconnected from surrounding streets and […]
When Ben Callery of Ben Callery Architects was contracted to renovate and extend a Melbourne home on a 6.5-metre-wide block, walled in on both sides, and with a less than ideal aspect, some creativity was called for. “In response to the site challenges, we popped up the roof and then curved it up towards the […]
The XYZ house's original dwelling was designed by architect GE Swallow in 1962 and is a beautifully intact example of early ’60s West Australian modernist architecture. Mark Aronson Architecture recently provided the structure with alterations and additions for the owners, extruding the existing living space out and into the garden via a narrow, glazed, single-storey addition.
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