Hannell Street Commercial | EJE

A commercial builder’s own headquarters, Hannell Street Commercial provides Core Project Group with a comfortable, collaborative modern office in a high profile location. The design of the building and office layout allows flexible workspaces, areas for downtime, places for privacy, places for collective discission and room for expansion for the growing company. Viewed in transit from the adjacent roundabout, the linear facacde of the building evokes horizontal movement at speed, with subtle changes in angle allowing light and shadow to articulate a changing appearance across the day.

Kempster Road Guesthouse | EJE

Takamuna is an aboriginal term meaning ‘House on a Hill’. This site provides great views across Merewether and the Pacific.

The guesthouse has been carefully placed at the northern end of the property, below the existing garage to have a low impact on the existing residence.

Allowing for a generous shaded outdoor space a timber pergola on the north-eastern side of the Takamuna residence has been arranged to work geometrically with all different building orientations.

The contemporary style of the guesthouse including sandstone plinth, timber structures, high level glazing and floating low-pitched skillion roof, evokes the notion of longevity like the character of the existing residence.

The aesthetic of the guesthouse with natural and warm materials tried to create a well-articulated texture of great sensibility to its environment. The play between existing architectural elements and a contemporary Australian style, expressed in materiality and form provides its own layer of history.