Birriga Road Apartments

It is rare that a developer treats an apartment development as though every apartment is their own house but that is the case with these three apartments in Bellevue Hill. The site is very steep allowing the top two level apartment to be read as a house rather than an apartment from the street. Through a separate entry there are two further apartments below the street level accessed from a polished concrete lift shaft. The building was designed around two huge trees that dominated the site. One, a Jacaranda, became the focus of the entry sequence and the other provided the opportunity to create a courtyard in the building that would provide privacy and shade to the northern facade. The middle apartment has a two storey void over the dining room to draw sun deep into the apartment. The ground floor apartment opens onto a densely vegetated garden and private courtyard. The builders SX Projects won a Master Builders Excellence in Housing award for the project and it has been published in Trends Apartments magazine.

Bundeena Apartments

For a change someone else (Baker Kavanagh Architects) did the hard work on this project, managing to convince Sutherland Council and the Land and Environment Court to approve a DA for three commercial spaces and six apartments.
We redesigned the apartment layouts and entry space and selected internal fittings and finishes. There is a simple palette of materials that maximises the sense of space in each apartment and a dramatic lighting scheme in the entry to draw visitors to the apartment level. Each of the six apartments has a different layout and different finishes to suit a range of purchaser tastes.

Bondi Apartments

The original apartment building on the site was developed in the 1970′s under the planning controls of Ordinance 70. This meant that the building could be three stories high as long as it was 6m from the boundary and that is the apparent extent of the design process, with the resulting building exactly followed the irregular shape of the site. Our brief was to rationalise the planning and to increase the footprint of the individual apartments in the process.

Hunter Street Offices

Medical and Dental Surgery

The medical centre was completely refurbished. Not only were more consultation rooms needed, but an inviting and comfortable waiting area, w.c., staff and office areas were required. To achieve this in the limited area, joinery and built in furniture were designed in consultation with the staff to create a hygienic, efficient and ergonomically correct and positive work place. Due to budget constraints, economical materials and simple details were used to create a feeling of light and spaciousness.