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Woven timber “roots” frame Brisbane high-rise by Koichi Takada Architects

February 9, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Australian studio Koichi Takada Architects has completed Upper House, a 33-storey high-rise in Brisbane designed to reflect the city’s tropical setting and First Nations history. Upper House contains 188 apartments and 1,000 square metres of communal amenities behind a winding timber facade described by Koichi Takada Architects as “architectural roots”. “The Brisbane lifestyle is enviable and

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Woven timber “roots” frame Brisbane high-rise by Koichi Takada Architects

February 9, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Australian studio Koichi Takada Architects has completed Upper House, a 33-storey high-rise in Brisbane designed to reflect the city’s tropical setting and First Nations history. Upper House contains 188 apartments and 1,000 square metres of communal amenities behind a winding timber facade described by Koichi Takada Architects as “architectural roots”. “The Brisbane lifestyle is enviable and

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John Ellway updates Brisbane cottage with staggered extension and gardens

December 23, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A series of small gardens designed to “encourage play and movement” breaks up Hopscotch House, a cottage in Brisbane with an extension by local studio John Ellway. Situated on a low-rise estate in the suburb of Woolloongabba, the project leaves the original building and its relationship to the street largely untouched, instead extending backwards to fill

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Weathered-steel staircase wraps plant-filled atrium at Midtown Workplace

October 21, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Weathered-steel balconies with cascading plants wrap the skylit atrium at the centre of this office in Brisbane, refurbished by Australian studio Cox Architecture. Named Midtown Workplace, the office occupies the top nine floors of a development that has been created by merging two separate towers in the Australian capital into a single building. The project

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Brick and concrete walls enclose outdoor spaces at River House extension in Brisbane

May 6, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0
Car port at River House in Australia

Architect Christopher Furminger has completed an extension to a home in Brisbane, Australia, featuring robust walls that frame gardens, courtyards and paths linking the living spaces. Furminger was asked to expand the existing weatherboard home, named River House, by adding a garden and carport along with a new entrance and extra rooms for the owner’s

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Nielsen Jenkins creates backyard extension for K&T’s Place in Brisbane

September 19, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0
K&T's place by Nielsen Jenkins

Australian studio Nielsen Jenkins has used raw timber and concrete blocks to extend a home belonging to an artist and art gallery director. The project, called K&T’s Place, involved the renovation and expansion of a modest “Queenslander” cottage in the Brisbane suburb of West End, which is undergoing significant redevelopment. The goal was to provide

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Nielsen Jenkins designs Brisbane home to withstand bushfires

August 19, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
Mt Coot-Tha House by Nielsen Jenkins

Australian studio Nielsen Jenkins has completed a “tough” family home with lush green courtyards protected from extreme bushfires by high blockwork walls. Mt Coot-Tha House sits on a challenging site characterised by a steep slope at the foot of Mt Coot-Tha, in the suburb Brisbane of Bardon. Faced with the requirements of the second-highest bushfire

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Peter Belsey uses pale bricks and thick mortar to create monolithic facade of Brisbane’s Couldrey House

April 22, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Couldrey House by Peter Besley

Mortar oozes between the off-white bricks that clad this house in Brisbane, which architect Peter Belsey has designed to look “immensely heavy”. Couldrey House measures 320 square metres and is situated west of central Brisbane, nestled in the foothills of Mount Coot-tha. Besley wanted the house’s heavy materiality to contrast vernacular residential architecture in Australia,

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Alexander & Co creates sunny interiors for Brisbane’s Burleigh Heads Pavilion

July 12, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Burleigh Heads Pavilion by Alexander & Co

White-painted walls and pastel furnishings help create a “sun-drenched” aesthetic inside this beachside pavilion in Brisbane, which Alexander & Co has converted into two eateries. Nestled on the sandy shoreline of Brisbane’s Gold Coast, the Burleigh Heads Pavilion was originally erected in 1987 to accompany a community swimming pool. It now accommodates an à-la-carte restaurant

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Richards and Spence creates resort-like atmosphere for The Calile Hotel in Brisbane

February 14, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of The Calile Hotel, designed by Richards and Spence

Sun-bleached pinks, sandy-beiges and gold decor appear inside this hotel, which Richards and Spence has designed to reference to Brisbane’s balmy climate. Decked out in warm hues, The Calile Hotel in Brisbane, Australia, has been designed by locally based architecture studio Richards and Spence to “deliver a resort experience in an urban setting”. “In our opinion

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