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 […]
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.
Even architects are not impervious to the changing needs of a family, as Liam Proberts of Brisbane architecture studio bureau^proberts explains to MEZZANINE. The father of three recently designed a project that hits close to home – an abode for his own family.
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