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We are dedicated to a contemporary position in architecture, along with a commitment to the craft of architecture and how the well crafted building, resulting from the intelligent and inventive use of materials, may embody the aspirations of each individual project.

Clifton Hill House
Deftly entwining the individual and shared spaces of a home, this renovation provides a rich diversity to domestic life within a small site.
Flinders Lane
By delicately combining domestic and exhibition space, visitors to this gallery are provided with a unique, intimate experience of art.
Newcomb Park Primary School
Built – imaginarily – from a variety of industrial components, reassembled to deliver flexible and intimate spaces that celebrate the once industrial area.
Altona North Primary School
The design of this classroom building draws upon the school’s existing spaces and surroundings to explore a story of context, legacy and change.
Diamond Valley College
Combining new teaching and collaboration spaces to complement existing teaching spaces to form a contemporary STEM teaching facility.
Stawell Secondary College
Celebrating the original heritage building on the campus whilst acknowledging an awakening awareness of local indigenous culture.
Burrinja Cultural Centre
Drawing out Burrinja Cultural Centre’s diverse and socially connected qualities, visual arts activities are bound together and brought to the foreground of a visitor’s experience.
Spensley Street Primary School
A small project of significant impact, existing library, service and outdoor spaces were transformed into a dynamic learning facility for STEM and Art.
Melton West Primary School
Reinventing the existing primary school in response to contemporary needs in a growing area with great ethnic diversity and significant social disadvantage.
Mernda Ambulance Station
A small but important piece of public infrastructure, making its presence felt within the evolving commercial precinct of Mernda.
Acheson Place, Coburg North
This project revolves around the simple but transformative act of cutting a hole in the middle of a large existing volume.
Myrtleford Jubilee Park
Ties together existing and new elements within Myrtleford’s Jubilee Park creating axis and intersections that drive the geometry of new structures.
Sorrento Visitor Centre
A combination of urban design, sculpture and architecture creating new spaces for the public life of Sorrento.
Fawkner Street House, South Yarra
Explores delicate control of circulation in curating series of visual thresholds that interact and entice occupants to transverse within spaces.
Block Hotel, Little Collins St
A 192-room hotel designed for the owners of the Block Arcade with the intention to feed off and build upon the Block Arcade brand
Pomonal Community Hall
Expressing a moment of change in the town of Pomonal – from the memory of the existing hall to a contemporary place for the community.
Mount Macedon Primary School
Wrapping indoor and outdoor learning spaces around an existing art and music room, a tight budget is cleverly used to provide a new STEAM facility.
The Seymour Apartments, Armadale
With eleven apartments, a generous retail space and car-stacker, rigorous planning has facilitated modest sized apartments with exceptional amenity.
NGV External Lighting
A comprehensive external lighting strategy for NGV in St Kilda Road which integrates several components into the heritage fabric of the iconic existing building.
Mirror Shed, Elwood
Housing bins, bikes, garden supplies and an air conditioning unit, this mirror clad shed visually dissolves, whilst intriguing and confounding the viewer from the street.
Gold St Renovation
A simple spatial concept unites four different uses of one small room; a cupboard, a passage, a laundry, a bathroom.
NGV Summer Pavilion
A helium filled structure lighter than the air it displaces, tethered with weighted tension cables, resting on the courtyard surface.
GW Crossfit Gym, South Yarra
Embodying the Crossfit ethos of strength, aerobic exercise and whole body health, this facility lifts aesthetic standard and amenity, whilst maintaining a sense of toughness.
Diagonal House, North Fitzroy
Innovative add-on opens like a fan towards sun drenched north-facing rear courtyard.
Art Space, Casey
A fragment made from fragments: exhibiting art within libraries using on the idea of a distributed gallery, made from a kit of parts.
Art House, Richmond
A house / gallery defined by a curated circulation path past an extensive collection of books, artworks and artefacts, punctuated by iconic neighbourhood views.
Come Closer: A Meeting Pavilion, RMIT
A circle around a fire remembered as a brass table top, a surface gathering the marks of all who sit there.
True Self: Exhibition Design
To account for varied presentation spaces, we carefully employed materials and objects to create threshold spaces between the gallery and the works.
Bryant Street House, Flemington
Reflecting our client’s fascination with Japanese culture, this house brings authenticity to a Japanese sensibility whilst acknowledging its Australian inner suburban context.
Community Care Home
A residential care facility a range of disenfranchised and vulnerable people.
Monash Sound Shell, Clayton
A place for performance – music, dance, theatre and film – the sound shell acts as a catalyst to enliven the entire surrounding precinct.
Hampton Park Ambulance Station
Conceived as a house with a super-sized garage, this building is clad in emergency services livery including the iconic red-cross.
Bldg. Eng. Office Fitout, West Melbourne
A light filled contemporary office space for fifty staff with strong connections to the built fabric of the existing building.
Nicholson Street Extension, South Yarra
Removing wasteful circulation this extension, provides enlarged living areas whilst getting northern light into the south facing spaces
Eaglehawk Bowling Club Canopies
Drawing upon the existing clubroom structure, the screen wall and green canopies curve together as an integrated, civic-scale street edge.
Curtain Street Extension, North Carlton
Complementing substantial internal renovations, this hovering, custom laminated plywood pergola provides sun protection, weather protection and generous filtered day light.
Porte Cochere, Collins Place
An installation with Bridie Lunny to create a series of stages for performance that are carefully intertwined with the daily life of the Sofitel Hotel.
Park Facilities for Masons Falls and Jehosaphat Gully
By combining familiar rural forms with a direct response to the site, we wanted these facilities to feel like they’d always been there.
EcoVillage House Designs, Cape Paterson
7.5 star housing designs founded on research showing that the financial benefits of an environmentally friendly home now far outweigh the costs.
NGV Asian Galleries
A dedicated display space for NGV’s Asian collection designed in collaboration with NGV under curatorial guidance.
NGV Studio Gallery
An experimental gallery space for NGV at Federation Square for the display of emerging local artists with an emphasis on street art and youth culture.
North Melbourne Primary School Stage 3
Abandoning traditional classrooms in favour of an ‘activity based team teaching’ model, this project contains two open plan ‘learning neighbourhoods’ across two levels.
Greenhills Primary School, Greensborough
The implementation of a masterplan with new administration building, classroom block, and ‘Cultural Centre’ housing Library, Art, Music, Canteen and ICT spaces.
Strathewan Bushfire Memorial
A splintered collage of sky and green with an underside of blackened steel establish a narrative of hope and regeneration, floating above the ashes of devastation.
Pinwheel House, North Carlton
Like a pinwheel, the different spaces and rooms of the house connect off a centre point – giving the house not a room, but a hub.
Freemans Villa, Freemans Bay, New Zealand
Textures and colours evolved through discussions in the design process. The end result is a careful combination of finishes lining the new spaces.
Camberwell Primary School
For a local primary school running an immersive bilingual program in French and English, this project includes six classrooms above a multi-purpose gymnasium.
Affordable Bushfire Home, Kinglake & Marysville
An affordable bushfire resistant home designed for those left homeless by the black Saturday bushfires in Kinglake and Marysville.
Rembrandts: 9 Installations
Artistic and architectural responses to Rembrandts; a defunct entertainment centre and a place of memory and significance for its community.
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1:1 Interface, Majorca House, Melbourne
Thinking big in a small space: Four projects re-imagine the facade of the Majorca Building in Melbourne’s Centre Place.
North Melbourne Primary School Stage 2
New new multi-purpose hall / gymnasium and after school care facilities along with the remodelling of the west wing of the existing heritage building.
North Melbourne Primary School Stage 1
New classrooms, library and administration facilities along with the remodelling of the east and central wings of the existing heritage building.
Roofscape House, North Carlton
The addition to an inner-suburb terrace for a young family reflects the roof-forms and colours of its surroundings.
Melbourne Wholesale Markets, Epping
A strategic reference design for buildings and hardstand circulation, produced following extensive consultation with both the market community and the government.
Parallel Intersect, Installation MUMA
The pavilion is formed from two supporting devices; the impossible meeting of floor and ceiling planes and the dual shadow volumes cast from the absent.
Cecil Street Extension, Fitzroy
A clever response to a small site – accommodating a contemporary household by providing new amenity and flexibility.
Joshi-Fordyce Extension, Northcote
An extension, the form of which is conceived as a stylised lava flow of volume shaped by both internal spatial requirements and external forces.
Monash Recreation Pavilion, Clayton
Designed to encourage student social interaction this building houses a flexible, multi-purpose space and service areas to support a range of student activities.
Monash Recreation Pavilion, Berwick
Designed to encourage student social interaction this building houses a flexible, multi-purpose space and service areas to support a range of student activities.
Mimco Retail Fitout, Paddington
In keeping with the eclectic nature of the brand, this fitout incorporates the original building fabric along with a mix of fabrics, mirrors and merchandise.
Grover Home Office, Clifton Hill
A backyard home/office and laundry/bathroom which allows connection with the life of the family to be maintained but with a degree of separation.
‘This Way Up’ Installation, Fitzroy
A familiar graphic at an unfamiliar scale and location which demands interpretation, alluding to stencil art, ‘big’ things and the importation of cultural traditions.
Preter Exhibition Design, Melbourne
An installation of abstracted drawing boards turns an ex-Army Drill hall into an architecture exhibition space.
Brunswick Extension
An extension conceived as an independent annexe to the existing house with its own distinct relationship to the yard at the rear.
Sorrento Couta Boat Sailing Club
Celebrating the history and material iconography of the Mornington Peninsula, this project reflects on the traditions of timber boatbuilding and maritime navigation.
Clauscen Street Extension, North Fitzroy
An addition dynamically shaped to reduce shadow-loading on its adjacent neighbours and to reduce the felt-effects of building bulk.
Virtual Reality Centre, Malaysia
A state of the art virtual reality facility, ovoid in shape, with the curved projection screen at one end the control console the other.
EDAW Office Fitout, Melbourne
Conceived as an imaginary landscape trapped inside the exiting building, this fitout allows is the greening of a sparse interior with virtual courtyards.
Park Orchards Extension
A multiple-extension to an existing house designed by Alistair Knox which includes garage space for four cars and an extension to the existing living area.
O’Reilly Budd Extension, Thornbury
Entered from the side, this extension is defined by three distinct prismatic forms, sculpted to suit the scale and functional requirements of the site.
SACHA Design Showroom, Fitzroy
This multi-use commercial refurbishment contains a new furniture showroom – thought of as an eighteen metre deep shopfront display – and a fabrication workshop to the rear.
Buttery Apartment, Melbourne
An interior fitout defined by a sculptural freestanding joinery unit which fulfils the functions of bedroom partition, kitchen pantry, refrigerator housing, wardrobe and bookshelf.
Conical Art Gallery Conversion, Fitzroy
An artist run gallery space with a ‘rustic’ room to the front placed in deliberate opposition to the ‘white’ room to the rear.
Bayswater Secondary College
Reinventing a school to better accommodate its pedagogy, the needs of its students, and connecting its activities into landscape.
The Belonging Place, Healesville
A culturally appropriate and safe place for the delivery of integrated services and programs to the local Indigenous Community.
Grampians Peaks Trail Hiker Centre, Dunkeld
A place to gather, to pause or to simply pass through; this shelter and amenities pavilion captures these changing occupations as an intersection of paths.
Fungi Pavilion, Raglan
Drawing the gaze downwards, into the scale of the forest floor.
Batemans Bay Town Centre Masterplan
At the meeting of the Batemans Bay Marine Park and Clyde River National Park, Batemans Bay is a place of junctions, both constructed and natural.
Westspace Gallery Fitout, Melbourne
A front of house re-work features a reconfigurable desk and display unit that echoes the striking herringbone floor.
Old Shire Offices
A glowing shed and a timber box: this extension of the Old Shire Offices in Viewbank combines these elements to create a simple, flexible facility.
Part Fab Housing: Quicksmart and Cantabrian Project
Part Fab: Quicksmart combines prefabricated and panelised components to improve the flexibility, affordability and amenity of the detached home.
Stacked Vacationer
A high rise speculation on the Australian beach box, the Stacked Vactioner creates airy infrastructure for holidaying over Bondi Beach.
FB is BIG – Urban Scale Design Research
Contributing ideas for this new city through design strategies, not masterplans.
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Fishermen’s Bend is an opportunity to create an entirely new city adjacent to the Melbourne’s CBD. It…
Everything, All Together: Flinders Street Station Design Proposal
Our proposal enriches Flinders Street Station through the interconnection of new activity and circulation.
Workplace Research
Workplace research providing new standards for the environmental performance of government buildings and approaches to the design of workplaces.
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In conjunction with university and government partners, this research…
“Proposition 3047” Urban Centre, Broadmeadows
A prize winning entry in a national design competition, this scheme is for a new ‘transit city’ centre in the City of Hume in Broadmeadows.
re-Housing: Housing Design Research
reHousing is an international housing conference, exhibition and publication that examined the role of architects in housing design.
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Workshop Architecture principal Simon Whibley has been undertaking nationally recognised research…
Nam June Paik Museum Masterplan, Seoul
A landscape and architectural masterplan for a museum to house the work of Korean born video artist Nam June Paik.