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tone wheeler design notes for week /202 from tone on tuesday

Abbotsford Eco House | Madden B

requirements of a sustainable home which uses recycled materials wherever possible to create a low impact house. The end result is not just a 7.5 + star building but one that re-used a lot of materials from the original home on the site, as well as...

Project | 31/05/2024

Ascot Club House | Alexandra Buchanan Architecture

ground floor to help create a large and seamless space from indoors to outdoors. The materiality (timber, steel and concrete) on ground level creates a gentle atmospheric veranda littered with light and shade. This was achieved using the...

Project | 31/05/2024

$1.4 Million Blacktown Showground upgrade popular with residents

area become an entertainment, exhibition and recreation hub for the community.” The brief for the project from Blacktown City Council was to design a new Café and Amenities Building in addition to a Community Garden Facility within the...

Project | 31/05/2024

Cairns Cruise Liner Terminal

in Australia in 1910 and is the primary reason for the listing of the precinct on the Queensland State Heritage Register in 2000. The wharf precinct still operates as a working wharf however goods loading from the sheds ceased in the 1960s. As a...

Project | 31/05/2024

House in Silhouette: Architecture with a sense of place

architect designed a home that was contemporary yet with strong references to a country farmhouse. The brief The brief was to design a large, flexible family home on a 1.6 acre sloping site. The home needed to be able to operate in two distinct ways...

Project | 31/05/2024

Hobart’s Kangaroo Bay Pavillion

the waterfront promenade allowing for social spaces to be on the waterfront edge. Access to the amenities is arranged to allow for visual surveillance of the area from the adjacent playground for parents. From the outset there was a strong desire to...

Project | 31/05/2024

A house of the utmost luxury and sophistication

indoor environmental toxins. "Our design for Teringa Place was guided by using pure, raw and simple materials to apply and innovative approach and create a home that enriches lives, which allowed for the seamless integration of wellness...

Project | 31/05/2024

Horizon House: Complexity and beauty in a coastal home

cultivated garden separated from the paddocks. Living spaces face the horizon, while the bedroom wings shelter the courtyard space on the northern and southern sides. Each part of the house can choose to engage with the horizon, or retreat to the courtyard...

Project | 31/05/2024

Australia’s first off-grid renewable classroom in Queensland

economically compelling, with the potential to reduce power bills for each classroom by $3,000 per annum and eliminate the high costs of connection to the electricity grid as well as reducing the overall pressure on the electricity grid,” says Hivve CEO...

Project | 31/05/2024

Craigeburn Train Maintenance Facility

Transport's upgrade to rail services in Victoria, HBO+EMTB was commissioned to design the Craigieburn Train Maintenance Facility & Stabling Yard (CTMF) on Melbourne's northern outskirts. The 1.2 hectare facility, longer than the Melbourne Cricket...

Project | 31/05/2024

Maranatha House | Bijl Architecture

of the house from the street which extends to the present time. Since the 1920s, the cottage had been altered and extended on all sides, with the early 20th century framed eastern wing and brick entry foyer to the south included in the Contributory...

Project | 31/05/2024

Concrete, perforated aluminium and terrazzo star in Melbourne café fitout

the high ceilings echo a sense of grandness, whilst the communal dining at the rear is clouded in a midst of shadow providing for a contrasting and much needed space of refuge from the main dining area. I guess in a lot of ways whilst taking a back...

Project | 31/05/2024

Fremantle extension

cottage near Perth, Australia so that its owners can have their grown-up children come to stay. The cottage is situated in the port city of Fremantle along Marine Terrace road, from where the project takes its name. Marine belongs to a couple with...

Project | 31/05/2024

Kingaroy Crematorium

Awards jury citation: "The Kingaroy Crematorium builds on the mature landscape in which it sits and is deliberately subservient to the cypress pines and eucalypts that establish a place of substance. The central space which caters for a wide range of...

Project | 31/05/2024

Armstrong by Future Build Construction Property Development

-sufficient, sustainable, healthy, liveable and energy positive home. By being able to design and build an energy positive home, it enabled the architects achieve a better than net zero result for their clients. FBCD also worked with triple bottom line...

Project | 31/05/2024

Shadow Roll House

Roll House. Ubiquitously clad in dark grey corrugated steel, the design for this new home features a rolled roof line which allows the new built form to recede in a shadow like fashion behind the heritage streetscape. Internally, the curved...

Project | 31/05/2024

Ashbury Terraces | SJB

house, interpreted for the contemporary world, forms one part of this picture – it just so happens to be a rather important part, given the opportunities to design it in ways that mediate the convenience and community of units with the independence...

Project | 31/05/2024

Bairnsdale Library by NOWarchitecture

. From the preserved volume, material and detail of the 1889 Mechanicals Hall, to sculptural timber stairways, to CAD/CAM prefabricated exposed elegant joinery quality LVL structure; Sustainability is evident. An holistic design approach has reduced...

Project | 31/05/2024

St Sebastian’s Primary School by Elizabeth Watson Brown Architects and Architectus

chemical and water usage. The site and individual buildings on campus are designed around the principles of environmental and social sustainability. Demonstrating passive climatic design, the newly erected buildings are designed for full natural...

Project | 31/05/2024

Esplanade House | Eckersley Architects

use. Esplanade House celebrates the connection between the interior and exterior through a series of carefully designed outdoor areas. A private terrace, accessible from the first-floor living area, provides an idyllic setting for alfresco...

Project | 31/05/2024

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