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

Nigel Cafe

Nigel is a tiny cafe at the bottom of a commercial office building in Camberwell, Melbourne. Nigel is a tiny cafe at the bottom of a commercial office building in Camberwell, Melbourne. The design for the 35m2 space had to be especially...

Project | 31/05/2024

Beach House | Bureau Proberts

multi-residential typology. The 14-level development, located in Broadbeach on Queensland’s Gold Coast, features 12-full floor residences, with a penthouse spanning two storeys. The interiors seek to maximise...

Project | 31/05/2024

Making do: Project 12 transform small Brunswick warehouse into family home with efficient planning

apartment. Project 12 were asked to add an extra two bedrooms, a bathroom and a rumpus to the long narrow space as the clients needed more rooms for their expecting twins and weren’t keen on relocating. Had Project 12 left the walls of the...

Project | 31/05/2024

'In' with the old, in with the new: adaptive reuse at Gantry by Bates Smart

ends of the historic High Bay Building. That’s not to say the new additions from Bates Smart aren’t highlights, and the building’s western facing solid masonry facades and timber louvers are certainly striking elements of the design...

Project | 31/05/2024

Gawthorne's Hut | Cameron Anderson Architects

recycled bricks have been meticulously repurposed from the only surviving part of the original cottage on the property, the fireplace. Like many rural properties throughout NSW the only sign of a previous building is the defiant existing chimney still...

Project | 31/05/2024

Tired old library gets a refreshing transformation

The major redevelopment of the Sir Louis Matheson Library has transformed an essential, but tired, facility into a vibrant and engaging learning-research environment From the architect: The major redevelopment of the Sir Louis Matheson Library...

Project | 31/05/2024

Dune House | Herbst Architects

setback 200 metres from the high-water mark in order to prevent flooding, but formed a challenge for the practice due to the rise and fall of the dunes. The building was placed on stilts with the surrounding land re-contoured in order to maintain views of...

Project | 31/05/2024

Dot’s House | Atlas Architects

setting to work on removing the paint to find the facade coated in tar. The facade was repainted as a result, with the front porch reinstated to maintain heritage. The dwelling’s original pitch roof is carried from existing to new, with a circular...

Project | 31/05/2024

Grand Pavilion: Ageing in style

from both living together, while still maintaining our independence?” says architect Anthony Windust, director of Windust Architecture x Interiors. “This question became the starting point for an in-depth analysis of senior couples, and...

Project | 31/05/2024

Castle Cove House

The history of the single-family house in Sydney during the last century is one that fuses our relationship with the landscape with a history of experimentation in residential house design. Text description provided by the architects. The history...

Project | 31/05/2024

Contorting 720 Bourke Street Melbourne adds to Docklands skyline

Street project features sustainable elements and a contorting glass façade. Located in Melbourne’s Docklands precinct, west of the CBD, the A Grade office space designed by Hassell Architects is certified for a Six Star Green Star Office Design v...

Project | 31/05/2024

370 Albert St | Jolson

East Melbourne’s latest luxe multi-res development, 370 Albert Street in East Melbourne, designed by Jolson with interiors handled by Tamsin Johnson. Comprising thirteen residences across eight levels, Jolson’s design seeks to...

Project | 31/05/2024

Holme Apartments | John Wardle Architects

conviction witnessed across the whole site. The building’s cylindrical form is derived from the former Joe White Malting silos that was previously situated on a nearby street. Silos are synonymous with the east Melbourne skyline for decades...

Project | 31/05/2024

Bringing joy and community back into a 1930s Queenslander home

interests (fabrics, sewing and engineering) via a new studio and renovation to an existing home. The low-key Queenslander was surrounded by wonderful established Poinciana trees in a leafy Yeronga street. It had suffered from being hacked around in...

Project | 31/05/2024

$3-billion Brisbane wharf redevelopment to be the biggest in Queensland history

announced as the major architects for the project: Cottee Parker (architects for the integrated resort design), ML Design (heritage architects) and Grimshaw (bridge architects). According to Destination Brisbane, the massive urban renewal project is set...

Project | 31/05/2024

Little Manly House | CHROFI

Little Manly House expresses itself as an arrangement of well-proportioned rectilinear volumes dressed with carefully composed minimalist facade elements. From the architect: Little Manly House is located nearby Little Manly Beach at the base...

Project | 31/05/2024

Bringing the office home at Alexander House

design team, and allows the creative mind to run free, acting as a thesis, prototype and place for the team to test out and challenge ideas. The practice aims to use the house as a place of cultural significance, with Alexander &CO. reaching out to...

Project | 31/05/2024

The light-soaked Cremorne Duplex | Hebden Architects

who had acquired the site to build a home for the couple, and an additional home to rent or sell. Looking to downsize and capitalise on the state of the property market, the couple purchased the 552sqm corner block site in the hope of being able to...

Project | 31/05/2024

Melbourne Brain Centre, University of Melbourne

matter', working as one for the greater good. Contained in a bone coloured precast shell they are revealed through large 'collective' windows incised in the casing. The design language throughout plays upon the idea of a split personality: left and...

Project | 31/05/2024

Tzannes Associates hide trigeneration cooling towers with zinc mesh netting at Irving Street Brewery

energy for the entire Central Park precinct through use of natural gas. One of the walls was removed from the old brewery and replaced by a clear span portal frame while the remaining walls were shored up with steel framing. Photography by John...

Project | 31/05/2024

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