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Sam Crawford Architects creates red-roofed community pavilion in Sydney

March 23, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

An angular roof wrapped in translucent red-mesh panels crowns this Y-shaped pavilion in Sydney, designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects. Located on the disused lawn of a bowls club in Hurlstone Memorial Reserve, the timber-clad structure is designed as a flexible community centre with uninterrupted connections to the surrounding park. The pavilion hosts a multipurpose

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Lahznimmo Architects aims for “beautiful utility” with museum storage in Sydney

March 22, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Australian studio Lahznimmo Architects has completed Powerhouse Castle Hill in northwest Sydney, a shed-like storage facility wrapped in corrugated aluminium and concrete. Owned by the Powerhouse Museum group, the 9000-square-metre facility is intended as a public-facing storehouse containing a mix of storage, exhibition and conservation facilities, alongside spaces for research and community engagement. Its design

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Sam Crawford Architects tops Sydney home renovation with “garden oasis”

January 18, 2024 Starr Charles 0

A private roof terrace enclosed by greenery features in Hidden Garden House, a Sydney home reconfigured by Australian studio Sam Crawford Architects. Situated within a conservation zone, the home has been updated by Sam Crawford Architects to brighten its dark interior and transform it into an urban “sanctuary”. Alterations to the 198-square-metre home’s interior are

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YSG brings boutique-hotel feel to family home in Sydney

January 17, 2024 Natasha Levy 0

Interiors studio YSG has upgraded a home in Sydney’s Mosman suburb to feature “lavish yet tranquil” interiors that are more akin to those of a luxury hotel. The three-storey house previously had drab grey walls and awkwardly placed partitions but now features more coherently connected rooms finished in a sumptuous mix of materials. “Our clients

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Cox Architecture celebrates heritage features of its own Sydney studio

November 23, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A brick, steel and timber structure is left exposed in this office interior in Sydney, which local firm Cox Architecture has revamped to house its own studio. Cox Architecture removed previous alterations to the structure, which occupies five floors of the heritage-listed Metcalfe Bond Stores warehouse in Tallawoladah, to highlight its original features and complement

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“Like Peter Barber on LSD” says commenter

November 15, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a house in Sydney with a “playful and textured” facade made from reclaimed materials and broken bricks. Called 19 Waterloo Street, Australian studio SJB designed the building to replace a damaged structure on the compact site in the city’s Surry Hills suburb. Commenters largely thought that the

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Akin Atelier houses Gallery Shop at Sydney Modern in “translucent bubble”

November 9, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Curved resin walls define this retail space, which architecture studio Akin Atelier has created for the Sydney Modern extension at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Designed by Akin Atelier with surfboard designer Hayden Cox, the Gallery Shop is located in the entrance pavilion of the gallery that was recently completed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning

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Reclaimed materials form “playful and textured” facade of Sydney house

November 7, 2023 Katie Last 0

A staggered arrangement of windows and patterned sections of brickwork form the facade of 19 Waterloo Street, a house that Australian studio SJB has added to a small site in Sydney. The building, which also contains a shop and self-contained flat, was designed by SJB to replace a damaged structure on the compact site in the

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Retrofitted Sydney skyscraper named Best Tall Building Worldwide

October 30, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney by Danish studio 3XN and Australian studio BVN has won the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s award for best new tall building. The 206-metre-high skyscraper, which is a refurbishment of the modernist 1970s AMP Center, was named the winner at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s (CTBUH)

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Studio Bright wraps extension in Australia with pale pink breeze blocks

September 24, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice Studio Bright used patterned breeze blocks to wrap Garden Tower House, an extension in Australia, which peeks out from behind the restored frontage of a workers’ cottage. Located in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne, the project was a response to “unsustainable sprawl” in the area, looking to maximise the awkward, narrow site of

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