St Margarets College - Dining Room Refurbishment

The Southport School - Student Hub

Villa Malaparte - Adalberto Libera

Villa Malaparte - the ultimate expression of architecture and landscape in harmony. A mediator between, earth, sky and sea; architecture with references to history and implicit metaphysical meaning.

Williams Residence

Golf and Tennis Academy

Given the unique opportunity presented by the site, the building needs to be a response to the surrounding landscape and topography and the concept presented recognises the sensitive setting of the project. The building becomes a feature of the timeless landscape. The light and transparent building that results is intimately rooted to the landscape creating a true sense of place.

A key idea that reinforces architectural and corporate ideals of future sustainability is the active green roof of the main building and the resulting imagery of the building. The built form supports and is supported by a number of fundamental sustainability principles such as the collection of roof water for use in an irrigation system, solar panels to offset electrical costs and thermal mass that reduce heating and cooling costs.

We feel that the unique relationships forged between building, landscape and image is the key to providing a facility that would serve not only as a destination for the public and sporting fraternity, but as a facility that would become an architectural destination in itself.

Craig Residence

Balgowlah Residence

Aldo Rossi - 1968 - Scandicci town Hall project

In Rossi's view, building was a simple matter of being familiar with the elements of architecture and establishing a sequence. Because of this sequential character of architecture, an architects work was not unlike that of a storyteller. After all, a town hall was but a courtyard for dignified entrance - befitting a public space - into diverse spaces for assembly and the performance of administrative functions.

Here, an entire series of spaces strung together by a corridor culminates in a hall where politicians can meet and discuss public issues. I would say that the whole sequence of spaces has no other object than to manifest the presence of this hall - public space par excellence dominating the whole. This, to Rossi, is what a town hall was all about.

For him, architecture possessed that quality of transparency that makes it a self evident chain of elements made meaningful by the functions they are destined to serve, a chain of elements differing little from that first encounter with architectural order that children experience when they play with wooden blocks.

Building was just that; a matter of manipulating elements. It was a matter of having the courage to accept the reality of architecture without fear of identifying it with those images through which we learned to distinguish the differences of diverse types.- Rafael Moneo