All Blog Posts Tagged 'Australia' (15)

The design for Ormond Esplanade is serious fun.  The playful façade functions like skin.  In fact, like real skin, it is blemished and rough, tough and resilient, protecting the more vulnerable interior.  Inside, shape and color combine to create distinct spaces.  The children’s bedrooms are…

The Hive Apartment is just the first in a series of hip hop inspired buildings by Australia’s ITN Architects.  It’s the result of a collaboration by ITN’s  Zvi Belling and graffiti artist “Prowla,” both of…

When I first saw the façade of the Law Street House, I thought it wouldn’t be a project that interested me, because I’m not a fan of dark, industrial style.  I was surprised and delighted to find that the closed metal exterior gave way to a…

Created by Melbourne-based architectural and urban design practice Lyons, the Biosciences Research Building for the Australian…

This delicate timber structure holds some of Australia’s most powerful microscopes.  The Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM) Processing and Devices (P&D) Building at the University of Wollongong serves as a bridge connecting…

The Cloud House by Australian architecture firm McBride Charles Ryan is both an addition to and a renovation of an Edwardian house in…

The Trunk House is a small cabin in Victoria’s Central Highlands in Australia.  The design by Australian firm…

The Drew House aims to create a kind of luxury campsite nestled in the gnarled Bloodwoods and ancient Palms south of Gladstone in Australia.  The home was created by Simons Law Anthill…

The Dome House by McBride Charles…

The  Junior Boys building at Penleigh and Essedon Grammar School (PEGS) in Australia was recently…

There is something I find so exquisitely graceful about trees and leaves.  I’m drawn to them, and I’m drawn to everything that resembles them.  Leaf House is a pavilion for a private residence in northern Sydney, Australia.  A design by the London-based firm…

Churchill is a township in the La Trobe Valley of Victoria, Australia that grew around the Hazelwood power plant. The design of the Churchill Community Hub by Suters…