My Oh My Espresso Café by We Are Humble

Text description provided by We Are Humble architects. The extension to My Oh My Espresso reunites the ground floor of this beautiful building in the heart of Richmond. The new dining room takes its cues from the classic cafe and restaurant styling, with built-in banquettes, deep burgundy colour tones and these amazing restored archways.

The expanded venue has a few different dining spots for you to discover. From the new outdoor set-up through to the special hidden dining rooms in the back. Sitting up the front of the new dining room is Five Bounds, the space utilises a series of multi-level plinths and tables that will display their wares.

Private dining rooms are created with new arched entryways and warm timber tones in the rear of the space creating an intimate setting separated from the hustle and bustle of Swan St.

AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA

Architects: We Are Humble
Area: 200 m²
Year: 2021
Photographs: Peter Clarke
Manufacturers: InStyle, Bishop Master Finishes, Four Seasons Commercial Interiors, Paged, Porta Timbers, Tint Paints, Zaneti, Zepel Fabrics, Zlights
Builders: Four Seasons Commercial Interiors

written by : Hana Abdel
10 May 2022
published in : archdaily.com

Gallery of My Oh My Espresso Café by We Are Humble

The extension to My Oh My Espresso reunites the ground floor of this beautiful building in the heart of Richmond.

Luxurious Shelter – Seascape by Patterson Associates

Luxurious Shelter – Seascape by Patterson Associates

Above a private bay on the shores of Banks Peninsula – on New Zealand’s South Island – sits an exposed rocky escarpment, formed out of the remnants of an ancient volcano. In this wild idyllic setting Patterson Associates has created Seascape, a luxurious shelter from the realities of everyday life.

The cabin consists of three rooms – a lobby, combined living and sleeping space, and a bathroom. These spaces use interlocking geometries to take advantage of two view windows – one towards the private cove and the other looking outwards to a double rock arch formation known as The Comb.

With a palpable sense of purpose, the architecture seeks to deepen the connection between human beings and the earth by creating a place to be at one with nature.

The material palette, which emphasises the local and the natural, reflects this intention. Rocks excavated from the site create both interior and exterior walls.

Macrocarpa timber lines the remaining walls and ceiling. This same timber is used for much of the furniture and cabinetry, generating a warm glow inside.

With careful consideration of the environment in which it rests, the cabin is self-sustainable in terms of water harvesting and waste water.

The building is also highly earthquake resistant, important for this area of New Zealand. Extensive revegetation on site was undertaken post construction to restore the landscape, and now the turfed roof helps the building merge with the hillside while also helping it become an embedded part of the ecosystem.

Whiling away the hours relaxing on the deck, gazing out to the horizon, wandering the driftwood-laden beach, contemplating the lapping waves coming in to the private bay, curling up beside the fire – the experience of utmost luxury, absolute seclusion and connection to a virtually untouched landscape is one guests will be sure to carry with them long after they leave.

Words by Camille Khouri
Architecture by Patterson Associates
Photography by Simon Devitt
Build by Hoogervorst Architectural Builders
Interior Design by Jenny Anderson Interior Design

written by : Camille Khouri
2 May 2022
published in : thelocalproject.com.au

Gallery of Seascape project by Patterson Associates

Chelmer River House by Furminger

Text description provided by Furminger architects. A primitive architectural intention was used to establish building and landscape through the metaphor of a ruin. The site was conceived as a large garden to hold program for daily activities. Heavy masonry walls intersect the site, carving out public and private courtyard gardens, creating new entries into rooms through garden spaces. Encouraging the inhabitants to engage with the surrounding climate, landscape and structure.

The main garden walls wrap the internal rooms of the existing building, creating a structure that appears to have no glass nor function. This contributes to the ruin metaphor, forming a solid physical mass embodying the endurance of a ruin – reduced to what lasts.

Material exploration led to the use of commercial materials and construction techniques. Precast concrete flooring as roof and tilt-up concrete panels as walls. Through detail and innovative construction methods services were roughed into the tilt-up concrete panels, including all plumbing and electrical fixtures.

Removing the need for layering trades. Displaying both structure and panel internally and externally. A five-brick palette was developed during the excavation of the site. Stones and sands were collected and matched to masonry finishes further linking the site to the building materials.

By maintaining as much of the existing building fabric as possible and working with the existing plan, a strategy to wrap the building with a new structure and maintain the central spaces within the home was developed. This enabled the family to live on site during the construction of the newly built works. Reducing the overall cost of the project.

Returning to the first principles of building led to a questioning of how to create an opening in a wall – through forms or by pulling structure apart? As the construction of the dwelling was precast and tilt-up concrete panel it was treat by separating two elements.

This is evident in plan as well as elevation, in plan the roof is stretched to become a skylight over the doorway to the boot-room. In elevation the garden walls are pulled apart to form a new entry and doorway into the existing dwelling.

Programmatic organisation and careful additions allow much of the home to operate as a series of smaller apartment type dwellings. Through the use of separate entries, private courtyards and provisional services.

Allowing for multiple types of occupation to occur. The building may be used as a family house, adjusting to change as children grow, as parents age, but equally it may accommodate non-family residents, or working from home, with an independent office or studio.

Architects: Furminger
Area: 120 m²
Year: 2021
Photographs: David Chatfield
Manufacturers: AllKind Joinery & Glass, Elton Group, ABI Interiors, Archicad, Artedomus, Rogerseller
Lead Architect: Christopher Furminger
Structural Engineers: Ingineered
Landscape Architect: Ecru Design Studio

written by : Hana Abdel
1 May 2022
published in : archdaily.com

Gallery of River House by Furminger

Woollahra House by MGAO

Woollahra House by MGAO

This project is a residential dwelling, located in a small pocket of the leafy Sydney suburb of Woollahra. The project involves the alteration and addition of an existing, heritage-listed terrace. The existing dwelling forms part of a row of single-story terraces houses, all of which share their rear boundary with a public park.

The alteration & addition reconfigure the interior to accommodate the needs of the clients growing family. The original portion of the house contains a small study/guest room and a living room. The new double-story addition contains a powder room/laundry.

An open plan kitchen/dining room on the ground floor, and two bedrooms and amenities upstairs. The new living room has a strong connection to the rear garden, ensuring that the compact spaces retain a generous spatial quality.

The design inspiration for the new living zone came from the openness of the former breezeway (an external space that enables light and ventilation into the habitable rooms). The memory of the ‘Breezeway’ is implied through the use of a full-length skylight, which draws light deep into the new living zone

WOOLLAHRA, AUSTRALIA

Architects: MGAO
Area: 140 m²
Year: 2021
Photographs: Kat Lu
Manufacturers: Fisher & Paykel

written by : Hana Abdel
30 April 2022
published in : archdaily.com

Gallery of Woollahra House Residential Project by MGAO

Cultiver HQ Showroom by YSG.STUDIO

Cultiver HQ Showroom by YSG.STUDIO

Drawing from the grandeur of Italian villa design and subtle organic antipodean references, a warehouse of modest proportions in St Leonards was transformed into a gestural expression of arched volumes and tactile finishes for Australia’s leading home accessories brand, Cultiver.
Client Brief – Sequenced over two levels, the new flagship showroom required zones for trade customers to experience Cultiver’s range of bedding, tablecloths and napkins, cushions, bath towels and mats, plus loungewear, demonstrating the ease in which their collections could seamlessly mix and mingle.

It also needed integrated areas for staff to both work and liaise with clients that offered opportunities for new product range photo shoots plus a dedicated space for stock storage and distribution.

Aesthetically, it had to wield the mood enhancing impact of colour – akin to the company’s design philosophy – with a touch of luxury that invited interaction at every turn.

Level One – Budget constraints forced us to pivot resourcefully, settling on references to Italian loggias with arched colonnades plus bordered checkerboard marble floors.

Holding pattern, a rich tapestry of tourmaline-hued stones add an aged legacy to the revived space. Upon closer inspection each veined ‘tile’ is hand- painted on a poured concrete base, with trompe-l’oeil grouting binding them together by long-term YSG collaborators, Creative Finishes.

Removing a wall and doorway to conjoin two rooms, a shouldered arch replaces the severity of original right-angled returns and aluminium architectural framing devices. Its fine hand-drawn pinstripes add depth to its margins whilst acknowledging the delicate Cedar Stripe design on a selection of the company’s linen pieces (as does the striped charcoal and chocolate carpet upstairs). A custom ottoman seated before open oak shelving is loosely fitted with a Cultiver fabric, its finished edges echoing the scalloped details of the arch.

The existing kitchen was refreshed with the addition of gumleaf grey/blue joinery and a custom impasto splashback bearing a textured imprint of native tree leaves. Further responding to Cultiver’s socially responsible fabric selection process given its pure Italian linen, 100% Mulberry silk and Turkish cotton, plus recycled denim are OEKO-TEX® certified, the natural leaf motif also appears in vintage glass wall sconces dotting the stairway to the office spaces aloft.

The existing steel handrail was entwined in soft leather. Warm to the touch, it ushers engagement with the ranges displayed above.

Level Two – Upstairs, domestic vignettes are gently framed via recessed arches and partial height walls that dually act as display ledges with goods at arm’s reach. Even the newly built kitchen area serves multiple roles: accommodating staff meal preparation, enabling dining plus internal and external client meetings around the dining table, and facilitating intimate product launch events as it conjoins a lounge area.

The warm salmon terracotta shade of the arched zone matches a floor tone beneath, whilst visually expanding the room’s depth.
Embracing the relaxed wrinkles and pre-washed softness of Cultiver’s natural linens to achieve a ‘lived in’ feel, a vast selection of furniture and rugs are vintage, with velveteen fabric refreshing two armchairs.

Complementing the structural curved embraces, rounded returns abound, from the rattan dining chair backrests to the bone-hued travertine coffee table and nubbly cream sofa behind it that provides a neutral canvas for Cultiver’s seasonal cushion ranges to settle upon.

ST LEONARDS, AUSTRALIA
Interior Designers: YSG.STUDIO
Area :225 m²
Year :2021
Photographs: Prue Ruscoe
Manufacturers: Cult, Laminex, Chee Soon & Fitzgerald, Creative Finishes, Curotorial + Co., En Gold, Euroluce, FLOS, Formakami, Nord Modern, Planet Furniture, Spark & Burnish, Spence & Lyda, The DEA Store
Interior Design: YSG.STUDIO

written by: Hana Abdel
25 Apr 2022
published in: www.archdaily.com

Gallery of Cultiver HQ Showroom project by YSG.STUDIO

Vaucluse Apartment by MHNDU, The Unlisted Collective and Atelier Lab

Vaucluse Apartment by MHNDU, The Unlisted Collective and Atelier Lab

Embodying the light casual nature of living in the sky, Vaucluse Apartment is imagined as a mouldable base for an assortment of potential residents. MHN Design Union (MHNDU), The Unlisted Collective and Atelier Lab combine to focus on a connection to the natural environment, creating an elevated and relaxed series of homes interconnect across the multi-storey site.

While designing for an unknown client is no easy feat, ensuring a broad appeal with core connections both internally and beyond forms a grounding base to start from. As a series of 19 apartments across multiple levels, each of the homes are connected through shared principles of space, openness, and lightness. Located in Sydney’s Vaucluse, the same-named series of homes add to the increased density of the area, where single detached homes are more common.

Centrally positioned near the water and close to the city itself, each of the apartments are afforded views out and over Sydney Harbour, while heightened detailing internally ensures the experience of the contemporary home reflects its location. As a combined effort, MHN Design Union, The Unlisted Collective and Atelier Lab each bring their own areas of focus to ensure a balanced and considered resolve.

An unexpected pairing at times, furniture, artwork, and lighting is curated to reflect a lofted softness, while there is an airy feel to each of the spaces, as an offering to the harbour-side locale.

Although Vaucluse Apartment is outwardly focused, it retains a sense of self internally. From approach, the overall form hints at an ingrained privacy, with the encasing timber batten cladding creating a veil that surrounds and protects the home.

The approach also reinforces a sense of connection through a shared rhythm and texture, deceptively concealing the levels behind. The scale offers a playful responsiveness, which is then brought internally and expressed in another way. While the views out offer a break in the overall mass, the framed black metal apertures break up the timber and introduce another element.

A similar restraint shared by the architecture is brought internally, where a controlled palette is used as a base, and introduced elements add moments of focus and interest.

An unexpected pairing at times, furniture, artwork, and lighting is curated to reflect a lofted softness, while there is an airy feel to each of the space, as an offering to the harbour-side locale. Able to be opened from within, the spaces become naturally ventilated and lit and match a palette of lighter finishes.

Creams sit comfortably against pastel tones and muted timber, as a sensitive palette that reflects a connection to context and place.

Words by Bronwyn
Architecture by MHN Design Union
Photography by Dave Wheeler
Build by HSN Constructions
Interior Design by The Unlisted Collective
Styling by Atelier Lab

written by : Bronwyn
24 Apr 2022
published in : thelocalproject.com.au

Gallery of Vaucluse Apartment Project by MHNDU, The Unlisted Collective and Atelier Lab

10 Fold House by Timmins+Whyte Architects

10 Fold House by Timmins+Whyte Architects

The original single storey Edwardian cottage was dark and lacked connection to the outside. We used 10 folds in the roof to draw in light along the skinny, long house and site. The folds minimise bulk to the eastern neighbour and rise up to the large two-storey contemporary western neighbour. The house humbly addresses the street with a contemporary tweak to the Edwardian cottage and the two storey part of the house sits further back from the street hiding the bedroom volume behind it.

The rebuilt original room was painted white in keeping with the original cottage on site and the neighbouring houses. The two storey “new” parts of the house were clad and painted a green, colour matched to leaves from the Australian bush. We chose timber windows and doors because they are the parts of the building where our clients interact with most and timber adds warmth to the palette.

Throughout, the space creates its own sense of expansion and compression – from intimate dining to the towering ceiling suspended over a wall of handpicked art. The rearrangement of spaces from the original house has meant that the kitchen and dining are now open to their seasonal and edible garden, where neighbours houses are unseen yet their mature trees, including a palm and Jacaranda, become part of our client’s seasonal experience.

True to our design philosophy, this is a considered and crafted home, improving living for our clients ten fold.” The construction is light weight stud frame and roof beams clad in a v join fc sheet painted. The roofs are clad in colorbond metal.

On ground floor the single storey front room acts as a living room, study and guest bedroom on occasion. The laundry and bathroom are central to the plan and a small service courtyard allows views and air from the shower. The garden and northern light is directly accessed from the kitchen and dining space. The opportunity to lounge in this space is also achieved through a sofa and the cushioned L shape banquette seat. Upstairs is a second bedroom and the two bedrooms for our clients and their teenage daughter.

The house uses passive cooling and ventilation to minimise the use of air-conditioning and artificial light and we are told by the client that they couldn’t be happier with how it functions. The client gladly invested in solar panels, water tanks for garden irrigation as well as the opportunity to up-spec the wall and roof insulation which keeps the house at a pretty stable temperature over all seasons. Openable skylights over the stair exhaust hot air out in summer and the upper bedrooms benefit from the heat rising from downstairs in winter.

ABBOTSFORD, AUSTRALIA

Architects: Timmins+Whyte Architects
Year: 2020
Photographs: Peter Bennetts
Manufacturers: James Hardie Australia, About Space, Colorbond, Dulux, Warwick Fabrics, Adriatic stone, District, Great Frames, MK Upholstery , Profile Office Furniture, Tide Design
Builder: Encore Projects, James Boeck, Alberto Sebastiani
Electrical Contractor: Emseem, Marko

written by : Hana Abdel
20 Apr 2022
published in : archdaily.com

Gallery of Ten Fold House Project by Timmins and Whyte Architects

Wheelers Hill Residence by Matyas Architects

Nestled within the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Wheelers Hill Residence as a contemporary framhouse aims to cast its own mould of what makes a generous and connected family home. Looking to the traditional rural structures of farmhouses, the overall form and its peaked gable roof hint to another setting yet, through a scaling down and immersion within a curated landscape setting, it feels grounded in place and responsive to its surrounds. The use of a peaked roof acts to both create a sense of identity amongst its context while also adding generous height internally to create an unexpected home setting once inside.

Matyas Architects focuses on the tactile and textural elements of the home as a contemporary framhouse to create a welcoming and calm place of repose.

Bedrooms and bathrooms are located on the more private upper level. A refined material palette of local hardwood and white sand cement reflect the character of the local beach environment and coastal landscape. On a practical level, the materials employed are robust in nature, to withstand sand, salt, and water coming off the ocean and little feet.

Binding all of the natural and expressive gestures is a sense of restraint used throughout.
As a considered insertion, Wheelers Hill Residence respects its suburban context, as Matyas Architects elevates the traditional approach through considered and crafted detailing.

Words by Bronwyn Marshall
Architecture by Matyas Architects
Photography by Alex Reinders
Build By Marcus Builders
Interior Design & Styling By Matyas Architects
Cabinetry Planera
Landscape Design Le Page Design

written by : Bronwyn Marshall
18 Apr 2022
published in : thelocalproject.com.au

An Unexpected Retreat – Wheelers Hill Residence by Matyas Architects

An Expression of Values – Otter Place by Milieu

Otter Place by Milieu – An Expression of Values

With an emphasis on the value of good design and amenity, Milieu’s ambition to cultivate an everyday culture of design has driven collaborations with respected architects and designers, creating place-specific developments that respectfully engage with context. For the latest project, Otter Place, Milieu partnered with Hassell and long-standing collaborator DesignOffice to consolidate and express principles of inner-suburban liveability.

The architecture of Otter Place responds to the suburban vernacular in scale and form, while turning its head to the city. Hassell has shrouded the podium levels in white glazed bricks in a tender reference to Collingwood’s gritty, post-industrial masonry.

Above, a glazed ‘box’ creates a sleek counterbalance that celebrates the site’s neighbourhood outlook and striking CBD views.

Driven by DesignOffice and Hassell’s expertise in human-centred design, the interiors of Otter Place are cleverly planned to optimise natural light, encourage adaptability and craft an atmosphere of joy and comfort.

A foundation of quality materials – including European oak, linished stainless steel, exposed concrete, stained timber, natural stone and granite – is designed for longevity, inviting occupants to layer and personalise their spaces to suit their individual needs.

COLLINGWOOD, VIC, AUSTRALIA

ARCHITECTURE: Hassell
INTERIOR DESIGN: DesignOffice
DEVELOPMENT: Milieu
WORDS: Hayley Curnow
IMAGES COURTESY OF: Milieu

written by : Hayley Curnow
14 Apr 2022
published in : thelocalproject.com.au

Gallery of Otter Place Project by Milieu

With an emphasis on the value of good design and amenity, Milieu’s ambition to cultivate an everyday culture of design has driven collaborations with respected architects and designers, creating place-specific developments that respectfully engage with context.

Bassano Residence by Tom Robertson Architects + Simone Haag

Bassano Residence by Tom Robertson Architects + Simone Haag

The project involves the reinvention of two existing cabins to create one single luxury private suite and artist studio. The suite itself has been boldly carved into two halves. The entry side contains a kitchen and breakfast nook, as well as a cozy lounge. The remaining side is more private and features a bedroom and striking ensuite.

The interior concept is intended to invoke a sense of relaxation, grounded in calming textures and tones. The main central steel spine strongly defines the identity of the space, with its refined industrial detailing. In response to the project brief, the interiors provide a private and intimate retreat away from the urban chaos.

Bassano is unique and full of unexpected experiences. In direct contrast with the soft rural exterior architecture, the interior delicately balances bold brutal ideas with delicate detail design. In particular, the featured concrete bath and basin are proudly centered in the space and are theatrically illuminated from above. The concrete texture compliments the travertine flooring and is both robust and permanent.
The innovation of Bassano is evident in the ability to transform the original building fabric into such an iconic space. In particular, the sequence and scale of the individual spaces, and their controlled connectivity to one another. The resulting interior architecture is an experience rich in textured materials and humbled luxury.

RED HILL, AUSTRALIA
Architects: Tom Robertson Architects
Interior Designers: Simone Haag
Area :112 m²
Year :2021
Photographs :Derek Swalwell
Manufacturers : Fisher & Paykel, Simone Haag
Interior Architecture : Tom Robertson Architects
Landscape Design : Blac Design
Furniture : Bieemele
Construction : Bieemele