CopperString Project

                Every known and then a project comes out of left field that takes things to new levels. However, with new levels come new challenges. This project came our way as a result of a recommendation from the good people at Retracom. We were contacted in 2011 by […]

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Crossroad House 2

                                  In late 2011 the famous American architect, Peter Eisenman known for his intellectual and theoretical approach to design and teaching presented a lecture to the students and faculty of Sci-arc, Southern California’s prestigious architectural school. The lecture was titled ‘Project or Practice?’ Eisenman made […]

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Stokehouse by Arkhefield

This Brisbane restaurant designed by Arkhefield wraps its distinctive architecture inside via a stacked, curving timber wall that runs through the centre of the space.         With Melbourne’s Stokehouse restaurant practically a St Kilda institution, any little sister offshoot elsewhere would always have to make her own mark or suffer the fate of […]

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The Skylight House

The facade of this house in Balmain, Sydney, overlooking the Parramatta River across to Cockatoo Island, is a mere foil for the architectural drama inside.              For behind its frilly Victorian facade stands a finely considered and refined modern house, stepping up over three and half levels, remarkable for a deeply folded […]

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The Trunk House

          The project is a small cabin in Victoria’s Central Highlands. The brief for this project was to provide a two stage residential project including a cabin and a house, the first stage of which is shown here. The site contains a beautiful forest of extant Stringybark woodland. Our original interest was […]

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What’s better than the Sydney Opera house?

I discovered this article yesterday. It is a very interesting and thorough look at the current state of Australian architecture. A lengthy read but well worth it. Words by: Nick Bryant Architect James Stockwell’s Snowy Mountains House. Photo by Patrick Bingham-Hall Yes, Sydney has one very good building. But contemporary Australian architecture is out of […]

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Jed’s ‘Highrise’

        In another visual extravaganza, our four-year-old has this time created his interpretation of a high-rise building. Being a little more complex than his last few creations, this scheme depicts the space by allowing for large volumetric caverns defined by colour and transparency. While I am sure Jed is just having fun […]

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Heimplanet’s Inflatable Geodesic Dome Tent Sets Up in a Snap!

Buckminster Fuller was a futurist and an architect renowned for his out-of-the-box thinking. Years after his passing designers across the world continue to produce interpretations of the Geodesic Dome structures that made him famous. This tent by Hamburg-based ‘Heimplanet’ is no exception having taken advantage of the fractal geometries found in nature. Unveiled at this […]

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