Western Sydney University Bankstown City Campus | HDR and Walker Corporation
The Western Sydney University Bankstown City Campus, designed by HDR, embodies a groundbreaking approach to tertiary education architecture, introducing a hybrid “omniverse” model. Developed in collaboration with Lyons, Western Sydney University, and Walker Corporation, the campus accommodates up to 10,000 students and 1,000 staff, fostering universal collaboration in a technologyrich environment. The 18storey structure integrates 32 adaptable learning and research studios, emphasising agnostic and informal learning.
Committed to inclusivity and cultural celebration, the design reflects the cultural heritage of the Dharug people, featuring a reimagined Wall of Hands and a Yarning Circle at the Badanami Centre for Indigenous Education.
With a 6 Star Green Star rating, the campus prioritises sustainability through innovative systems and recycled materials, positioning it as a transformative hub for education, research, and community engagement in Western Sydney for years to come.
Trilogy House | p.s.architecture
Trilogy House sits on the edge of Pittwater looking north up the bay. Located on a steep populated slope, surrounding residences are ever expanding. Designed by Peter Muller in the early 60s and added to by Glenn Murcutt in the 90s, the pedigree was already daunting.
Subsequent to meetings with Mr Muller, both the clients and architects elected to contribute a chapter to the story.
Additions and modifications to this project were undertaken with reference to the past and a contribution to the future. The mindset in architecture needs to shift to answer issues of waste, energy, recycling, capacity and humanity. Projects that capture a responsible architectural outcome will reenforce the means by which architecture can reshape the world management of resources can no longer be left to those who most profit, it should be critiqued by those who care.
Vessel | Madeleine Blanchfield Architects
Vessel is a Victorian Terrace situated in a quiet enclave amidst vibrant Darlinghurst. The philosophy for the project was to design a bare stage for lifes theatre to fill and empty.
Our response to early heritage advice that a new addition would require a pitched roof form was to take this further and create a double skylit void in a folded roof form. These two funnels of light explore the fullness of the void invoking the feeling of being inside a ceramic vessel which opens at the top and in which the space inside the object creates the form.
The design is a testament to focussing on the creation of an atmosphere rather than the embellishment of spaces. The scrutiny and distilling down of whats essential to house within a home reveals the value of empty space in this design; how joy, discovery and meaning emerge from an empty stage.
The White House – Elizabeth Bay | Michael Fox Architects
The house was designed by Frank Fox & Assocates and constructed in the early 1960s. The 2 storey house refernces Frank Lloyd Wright and is included in the Elizabeth Bay Conservation Area.
In December 2021 Michael Fox Architects were engaged to carry out investigations, modifications and upgrades to the residence.
Thompson Residence | Cullinan Ivanov Partnership Pty Ltd
A new family home, perfectly situated facing due north and buried into the landscape. This allowed the whole whole house to be on one level. While the eastern side of the house is part of the landscape the northern ends of the pavilions rise above the ground towards the sunlight.
The entry sequence deliberately funnels and compresses the approach to the house towards a grand entry door, once opened revealing the central lightfilled courtyard. The house is made up of two pavilions along the side boundaries, housing the private bedroom spaces, and connected by the public living/dining/kitchen space. This arrangement forms a central courtyard which is the focus of all the public and private spaces, and contains a swimming pool and landscaped lawns stepping down to the north.
Transport Access Program – Tranche 3 | Transport for NSW Urban Design (Public Transport & Precincts)
The Transport Access Program (TAP 3) is a 10year, billion dollar project of station precinct upgrades across NSW. Design managed by Transport for NSWs Urban Design Team, the program goes beyond accessibility compliance to deliver bespoke, safe, pedestrianfriendly environments in complex urban neighbourhoods, regional towns, and heritage settings.
The TAP 3 program challenges traditional thinking, bringing an architectural and urban designled process to one of the most heavily regulated sectors within the built environment. The program spans 54 station precincts across city, intercity and regional networks.
It has delivered valuable place benefits that could easily have been abandoned in favour of cost and compliance. Improved access comes hand in hand with urban heat mitigation, Aboriginal and heritage interpretation, intuitive way finding and reduced visual clutter. By championing strong contextual public domain principles from the beginning, these station upgrades move beyond standardisation and repetition to positively contribute to the communities they serve.
Transurban | Bates Smart
Transurbans new workplace, located in Sydneys Poly Centre, achieves elegance by focusing on the essentials only. The base building architecture with its long, skinny floorplates, double height spaces and large concrete buttresses helped us to derive three interior principles.
1.Focus on simple but strong ideas, to sit cohesively within the base building.
2.Play with volume and shape, to buffer the space and create key moments of welcome and effect.
3.Prioritise the workzones to have just as much intent and impact as frontofhouse spaces.
The client floor avoids embellishment, instead demonstrating a few bold moves from the moody arrival in the lift lobby to the impressive glass conference rooms. A simple stair connects to the workfloors below, where workstations are reduced in density and illuminated by diffuse light. The interior cleverly integrates a material palette that speaks to Transurbans portfolio Sydney stone, concrete, steel and digital artworks.
Tree House | DunnHillam Architecture + Urban Design
This house has as its central organising principles two things; the established garden and the kitchen table. During the previous 20 odd years of occupation of this house by the clients those two elements were almost the same thing. The majority of meals were eaten at a large table in the garden, and though the brief was to provide a more allweather solution to dining there was also a desire to keep the connection and feel of being in the garden.
The design of this house has dual ambitions; to provide a quiet retreat for two busy professionals, and then at other times to welcome family and friends. Further, the house seeks to demonstrate a way of living that creates more gentle density in our established suburbs and to give an old house another couple of hundred years of useful life.
Tree Island | Carter Williamson Architects
Tree Island is a family home whose airy verticality transcends the limitations of its tight footprint and heritage context, using planning constraints as direct design opportunities. Elegantly balancing the protection of an existing cottage with the freedom to climb up against the adjacent warehouse conversion, its dramatic section is as rare as it is expansive, making of the most of its narrow innercity site.
A breathtaking, lightfilled void at the centre of the home unites the living, dining, and kitchen areas, playing host to a glorious fig tree planted in the kitchen island itself. Illuminated by a long, northfacing skylight, this doubleheight space cradles the most essential functions of its young familys life as it brings the garden inside.
The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland | CHROFI & NBRS
The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre (formally the Sutherland Entertainment Centre) holds an important place in the collective memory of the Sutherland community. As an iconic building in a prominent location, this substantial refurbishment afforded the opportunity to create a catalyst for local placemaking. Our approach was to work with the existing building, creating a versatile, welcoming timber and glass foyer that improves connection with the neighbouring Peace Park.
The venue boasts a spacious auditorium with seating for over 680, offering every visitor an intimate and engaging experience. The Pavilion also features versatile events spaces that can accommodate a range of performances, exhibitions, conferences, and community gatherings. Visitors are immersed in a captivating atmosphere that blends elegance, innovation, and artistic vibrancy. The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre sets a benchmark for performing arts facilities in the Shire, supporting the local community, while attracting touring productions to the region.
