Softly Restorative – Walsh Bay Penthouse by Greg Natale

Softly Restorative / Walsh Bay Penthouse by Greg Natale

A quiet and restorative haven, Walsh Bay Penthouse sees a muted and soft approach create a home of plush and refined layers. Greg Natale optimises the home’s enviable siting and creates a protective and welcoming cocoon internally as a balanced counter to the sunlit and open balcony that surrounds.

With full-height glazing that opens to the same-named bay from each room, Walsh Bay Penthouse drinks in its surrounds while creating a protective place for its residents to shelter and feel isolated. In its elevated position atop an assortment of diverse residences, the home is spread over two generous levels and extends to three bedrooms and connected living zones.

As a renovation effort, existing elements such as the lofted proportions are maintained and accentuated through a light palette, while soft curves are introduced to mimic movement through the home and create the feeling of freestanding sculptures as furniture. This same vernacular extends to all elements internally, creating a cohesive and connected series of spaces. Greg Natale draws from on the studio’s reputation of luxury and combine with a nod to the organic in conjuring the resulting home.

As a contemporary and light home built by4×4 Carpentry and Building Services, Walsh Bay Penthouse reflects its engagement beyond its bounding walls. With the floods of natural light filling the home, the use of a muted palette of soft pinks and yellows is complemented by the use of white and grey, allowing for a natural hierarchy to be created. The brief called for curves to accentuate the connectivity internally and also to soften the rectilinear floor plate. The introduction of a European influence is seen in the furniture selections, lighting and accessories placed throughout, carefully weaving in the narrative of a time-tested and historically proven lineage.

A newly crafted staircase connects the two levels and becomes a focal point amongst the main occupied area, the shared living zone. Originally in an alternate location, the realigning with the vertical movement in this open and elevated space sees this living area become the heart of the home and signal to the spaces tucked away from view.

A similar curved line shapes the stair and the other inserted elements, completing the story of the home as one where subtleties are expressed in a considered and deliberate manner. Amongst the soft pastels of the furniture and soft furnishings, brass is used as a cool and tactile element to engage and interact with daily, while light timber flooring adds warmth and a natural element throughout.

Greg Natale Architects Project Details

WALSH BAY, NSW, AUSTRALIA

PHOTOGRAPHY Anson Smart
STYLING Claire Delmar
ARCHITECTURE Greg Natale
INTERIOR DESIGN Greg Natale
BUILD 4×4 Carpentry and Building Services
WORDS Bronwyn Marshall

15 SEP 2021
published in: thelocalproject.com.au

Gallery of Walsh Bay Penthouse by Greg Natale

Concrete House, Wembley WA

A unique multi-generational new residence for a growing family of five. The house creates a new form of linear planning and environmental responsiveness by locating private and social spaces to the southern edge, resulting in a full, site length, north facing linear garden connecting the rear private lane and main streetscape. 7.2 Star NatHERS environmental rating.

Client Mark Civitella + Megan Kaino Structural Engineer McDowall Affleck Landscaping DIG WA ESD Cadds Energy Builder Distinctive Homes WA

published in : ah-a.com.au

Concrete House, Wembley WA

Daramu House – Tzannes

Daramu House - Tzannes

Text description provided by Tzannes Architects. Daramu House is an evolution of its sister building, International House Sydney. Together they complete the first stage of the Barangaroo South precinct, establishing the unique and desirable character of mass timber construction in the competitive CBD office market. Daramu House has been designed to present a cohesive and inviting public threshold to Barangaroo South, providing a transition in scale between the three towers and Sussex Street, establishing a 7 storey street wall and continuous colonnade edge to the precinct.

What distinguishes Daramu House, is its position at the intersection of the commercial and residential Barangaroo precincts. The architecture responds to this condition at the northern boundary by taking on a sculptural, folding form. This form signals the end of the street wall on Sussex Street and the turning point toward the harbour.

The fluid northern form provides generous amenity on the ground plane, enhancing the connection between Sussex Street and the harbour. The distinctive architecture of this part of Daramu House differentiates the commercial precinct of Barangaroo from the residential precinct to the north, whilst reinforcing precinct and harbour vistas. The rounded corners of Daramu House encourage seamless pedestrian movement into the precinct contributing to the connectivity and legibility of the public domain.

On Sussex Street, the commercial entry is announced through a dramatic two storey space. An impressive 18m span in glulam members allows a column-free entry by utilising the bracing elements on the upper 5 storeys as a truss. On the vibrant laneway of Scotch Row, the façade intersects with the exposed CLT lift core providing views to its timber anatomy for the full height of the building, both from the public domain and from within.

At the heart of the design is the warm, golden glow of the timber structure that is wrapped in a minimal glazed envelope allowing the timber to be celebrated as the hero. The expanded structural grid of 9m x 9m is currently the largest in the world for mid-rise commercial projects, allowing for generous and flexible fit-out opportunities.

Daramu House celebrates the rich industrial history of Barangaroo by reinterpreting the timber building typology that dominated the site post-European settlement. The pragmatic and expressed use of solid timber as the structural component of the building connects the history of this precinct to the present. External timber elements are made from Australian recycled hardwood selected for robustness, durability and weathering. Internally, the timber is left unadorned and uncovered providing warmth and a tactile beauty to the commercial floors, as well as contributing to a healthier, biophilic workplace for all users.

Architects: Tzannes
Area: 11700 m²
Year: 2019
Photographs: Ben Guthrie, Brett Boardman
Structural Engineer Team: Lendlease DesignMake, Lendlease DesignMake – Tim Butler, Tom Watts, Sindu Satasivam
Mechanical Engineers: Lendlease Applied Insight
ESD: Lendlease Applied Insight
Acoustic Engineer: Wilkinson Murray

written by : Hana Abdel
9 Sep 2021
published in : archdaily.com

Gallery of Daramu House by Tzannes

Malvern Evolution by kirby architects

Malvern Evolution by kirby architects

Text description provided by Kirby Architects. Having enjoyed this gracious Victorian villa for over ten years, our clients’ asked us to evolve the house so that it could function in different modes and adapt to suit their future. As a ‘forever home’, they wanted options for accommodating extended family who regularly stay over, generous entertaining spaces and new work from home zones.

This a full renovation, where modern lifestyles meet with heritage values. Removing the rear, we created contemporary and elegant rooms for large scale entertaining and lovely guest quarters with discreet disability-friendly features and private access.

To make the most of the fabulous northerly aspect, the large kitchen living space connects with the outdoors. Stepping onto the deck is like entering another realm; for big get-togethers, four pairs of steel french doors are flung open so the spaces flow easily. Behind the new kitchen is a butler’s pantry, which means party preparations can be underway, yet the kitchen is always presentable.

Inspired by the colour and texture of the Victorian red brick frontage, steel box windows are our solution for adding extra seating. They make the living room seem larger without extending the external walls and add a touch of romance so you can sit amongst the cushions and have a private moment.

Architects: kirby architects

written by: kirby architects
published in: kirbyarchitects.com.au

Gallery of Malvern Evolution by kirby architects

McNeal 020 Pavilion – Atelier David Telerman

McNeal 020 Pavilion by Atelier David Telerman

McNeal 020 emerged from the desire of David Telerman and a private client based in France to build a perennial structure in the American desert, Southern Arizona, in response to the shared fascination for the surrealist nature, which brought years before artists such as Max Ernst in search of new forms. By bringing together the raw elements of the surrounding place, the building must offer a landscape to experience, as a photographer or a painter would do with their own means, with precise attention to the vastness of the desert, the weight of the wind, and the geometrical precision of the light.

The pavilion, all made of reinforced concrete cast-in-place, is composed of an inverted pyramid, digging into the ground and closed in the centre. At the top, extending from the roof, are four lines of various lengths flattened onto the ground: elongated lines leading the visitor; lines to walk above, to feel the verticality of a fragile body, the fear of falling down; lines below, to capture the ever-changing light, distorted shadows waving on the steps as precise pendulums.

Inside, a linear bench faces the door and the sunset light shining through. The underground structure, not visible entering the site from the East, gradually appears, revealing a breach, the steps, and the central space: the organization of procession.

Despite its apparent simplicity, the structure tends to express, almost in a primitive way, the contrast between nature that gradually disappears down the stairs in a quiet sound and the view of nature reappearing while climbing up the stairs, the reddish ground, heavy wind, and the mountains in the far end.

Architects: Atelier David Telerman
Area: 267 m²
Year: 2020
Photographs: iwan baan
Structural Engineering: Bollinger+Grohmann

written by : HAN Shuangyu
31 Aug 2021
published in : archdaily.com

Gallery of McNeal 020 Pavilion - Atelier David Telerman

North Perth House – Nic Brunsdon

North Perth House by Nic Brunsdon

Text description provided by Nic Brunsdon Architects. The North Perth House is an urban-in all project in inner-city Perth. Located on a small block, the design responds by providing a variety of spaces, determined by simple structural arrangement. Eyciencies of construction and economies of trade were key considerations in managing a tight budget and a difficult site with restricted access.

Concrete pre-cast panels are deployed to be both the finishing material and the building structure. Using this commercial construction system as the main conceptual organising principle, the project gained significant budget and time savings while maintaining legible design integrity and innovation in housing type.

There are only two-panel types in the project; one for the ground floor running east-west parallel to the street, and one for the first floor running north-south pointing to the city. The four panels on the ground floor support the four on the first floor and interlock like a lattice, secured by gravity with some lateral bracing.

On the ground floor, these panels demarcate layers of privacy from the street front back towards the rear of the property, each signifying a threshold leading deeper into the private life of the house—garage, Gallery, Vestibule, Kitchen, then Living and garden. On the first floor, the panels rotate 90 degrees, giving long views back to Perth city on the south side and welcoming northern light into bedrooms. Moments of overlap allow for interesting spatial dynamics and vertical and oblique views through and out of the house.

Each panel is punctuated with two types of the arch, a grand arch and a pedestrian arch. The grand arch is provided for the more significant gestures in the house – prospect from the kitchen, a sun-shade to the rear, a hidden robe, and a gallery window.

The pedestrian arch is for clean perpendicular travel. The pedestrian arch also maintains the length and width of the site. On opening the front door, an uninterrupted sightline is presented from the front to the rear of the lot. Similarly, on arriving on the first floor, the pedestrian arch presents the full width of the house. These are Important gestures on a constrained site of 9.5 x 23 metres.

When the arch is not required, it is filled with a timber inlay or insulated translucent polycarbonate sheet, keeping the opening legible. The material palette is deliberately restrained to these three treatments; raw concrete for the heavy and hard-working elements like the structural panels and the floor, timber for the intimate moments like furniture, kitchen joinery, balustrades and bedheads, and the translucent sheeting to mediate the hard east and west sun and provide soft light to the height of the interior spaces.

The simplicity of the design belies the complexity of the resulting spaces that are created; spaces that are compressed and dark, high and washed, raw and unfinished, and rich and intimate.

Architects: Nic Brunsdon
Area: 195 m²
Year: 2019
Photographs: Ben Hoskin
Lead Architect: Nic Brunsdon

written by : Hana Abdel
01 Apr 2021
published in : archdaily.com

Gallery of North Perth House - Nic Brunsdon

Garden House – Baracco+Wright Architects

Garden House - Baracco+Wright Architects

Text description provided by Baracco+Wright architects. This experimental and ‘sometimes’ house on Boon Wurrung land was conceived through the inclusion of it in the repair of the site’s ecosystem. Garden House architecture is one of the relationships that revisit the project of a theory of space, this time in the terms of its physical place and the life supported there. It is made with a mix of industrialized elements (the steel frame) and handmade (timber frame) without concern with itself and modes of making. The thinnest of physical boundaries (perhaps fabric is thinner), polycarbonate sheet, maintains transparency otherwise displaced by a building for the sustaining of life, rather than architecture’s own terms of the material theory of transparency.

Spatial boundaries are not achieved in usual architectural terms (walls, windows, and rooms, ceiling, and floor) but made by the vegetation on either side of the polycarbonate layer, not perhaps quite a wall – but together with the vegetation, an ill-defined wall is made that starts on the inside with the moat-like horizontal boundary achieved through the way the raised floor stops short of the polycarbonate.

The raised deck is another expanded threshold this time with the ground – allowing the unsealed ground and its floodwaters to carry through. The window that frames an interior’s relationship with nature is absent. The ontology is almost flat – nature is neither confined to containers or brought inside. This quality of space is evident in Rory Gardiner’s photographic technique where frames are often replaced by images that fill the view without edges so that it is sometimes unclear if you are looking inside or outside.

The tent has often been a reference for Baracco+Wright. This building could be thought of as a little more than a tent: a deck and raised platform, covered by a transparent ‘shed’, the interior perimeter ‘verandah’ is a garden (and spontaneous vegetation) space and living areas are dynamic yet subtly spatially defined; up, down, under, above. The soil and a natural ground line are maintained and carried through. In the temperate south-eastern Australian climate, one is a little cold and a little hot sometimes but mostly comfortable. The ability to hear the outside is something surprising in this house. Nature is noisy. To hear enables one to locate themselves in space outside your own body.

The story of the natural history of the site drove the decision-making. The site is part of a leftover heavily vegetated corridor in-between cleared grazing land. It is a historical anomaly, and it gives a glimpse into what used to be there, although it is now mostly altered through domestic gardens, human and (nonnative) animal activity. Small patches of the endemic vegetation remain, mainly tea-tree heath, among mown grass, introduced species and plants considered invasive weeds.

The site connects to its neighbouring vegetation and Westernport – a large tidal bay. The road now occupies the position of an ephemeral creek, and being downhill, the area can be seasonally wet and dry and can flood. It acts as a compromised wildlife corridor for animals travelling from nearby Gurdies Nature Conservation Reserve to the coast and perhaps most successfully supports birds.

Garden House Project Details by Baracco+Wright

Architects: Baracco+Wright Architects
Year: 2021
Photographs: Rory Gardiner

written by : Hana Abdel
14 Sep 2021
published in : archdaily.com

Edge House

Edge House by Hare And Klein

Nestled on a secluded cliff face, Edge House by Hare and Klein Architects is a luxurious modern oasis. This alterations and additions project was designed to capture both ocean views and the city skyline, and features huge outdoor living spaces, polished concrete flooring, natural stone benchtops, a sauna and wine cellar.

Build by: stratti building
Designer/Architect: Hare and Klein
Photographer: Smart Anson
Credit: N/A

published in : strattibuildinggroup.com

Gallery of Edge House by Hare and Klein Architects

Agnes by Amok Studio

Agnes by Amok Studio

Text description provided by Amok Studio Architects. From the inception of Agnes, the focus was to create a venue that celebrates the theatre of wood-fire cooking and offers a genuine experience of sharing a meal. Our concept, “Back to Basics”, focussed on this, along with celebrating the raw beauty of the existing architecture. Guided by our concept and the budget, the design carefully integrated new contemporary elements within the existing building character. While respecting the old rather than replicating it, the design adopted a “bang-for-buck” approach and achieved an intriguing juxtaposition between raw rugged textures and simple yet elegant insertions.

The kitchen was a strong focus in the design process, with the dining spaces configured to maximise views to the impressive wood-fires. Surrounded by aged brick, concrete and render, the stairs constructed of steel and recycled timber connect guests to each of the unique spaces, some of which are encased within custom steel framing.

In the basement, the amenities adopt a controlled palette of rustic concrete, mirror and charcoal finishes. The carefully considered lighting design creates an atmosphere that is both moody and relaxing. At the same time, glimpses of the outside world are captured through steel windows, inspired by the industrial nature of the original architecture.

Agnes Project Details

PROJECT NAME: Agnes
PROJECT TYPE: Commercial Hospitality
LOCATION: Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia
PHOTOGRAPHER: Cathy Schusler
ARCHITECTS: Amok Studio
CONSTRUCTION: Apollo Property Group
COLLABORATORS: Tyron Simon, Ben Williamson, Frank Li

20 Jul 2021
published in : amokstudio.com

Gallery of Agnes by Amok Studio

Meals on Wheels SA Head Office / JPE Design Studio

Meals on Wheels SA Head Office by JPE Design Studio

Text description provided by JPE Design Studio. The Meals on Wheels SA Head Office brings together administrative, office and commercial kitchen functions together in a consolidated cook and chill facility. Representing the expansion and modernisation of Meals on Wheels South Australia, this new two-storey commercial building expresses a sense of warmth, openness, and approachability that reflects the heart of this non-for-profit organisation. With a rich history dating back to 1954, it was important for this building to showcase the significance of Meals on Wheels and their role in serving the community.

Located on the apex of 2 major traffic corridors, the new central hub redefines the streetscape with an expressive façade that is textured, inviting and bold. The design utilises a refined materials palette of robust feature brickwork and bold transparent forms, which frame the activity within the street whilst expressing the structure. The feature truss supports the upper level, traversing the main driveway entry from Sir Donald Bradman Drive and emphasizing the presence of the building along the streetscape.

Meals on Wheels now has an enhanced identity and interface with the community. The consolidation and provision of a new multi-purpose facility provide an inspiring and unified workplace for staff. Kitchen and office spaces have been arranged around a central courtyard to encourage gathering, provide a flexible space to host events and enable incidental connectivity.

The effective spatial consideration ensures building connection and integration of inhabitants with the outdoor environment. The courtyard allows daylight and fresh air to flow into central spaces and throughout. This new building is a functional and purposeful response to the future of Meals on Wheels, incorporating flexible and adaptable spaces that can change over time. The design prioritises efficiency, diversity and connectivity with working environments that offer a contemporary workplace and nurture social interaction.

A true representation of their core values and identity, this new facility represents a new beginning for Meals on Wheels South Australia whilst responding to their legacy. The new central hub better caters to the organisations future, with a flexible environment that allows for more effective working and efficiency whilst providing a contemporary environment focused on people and the role Meals On Wheels has in supporting our community.