Features & Finishes

Cabin 2 intimately engages with the landscape but remains camouflaged from the surrounding streets with new fence lines and indigenous planting to expand the feeling of the site beyond its immediate confines.

The design by Robert Simeoni Architects is a collection of buildings with residual outdoor spaces that can be manipulated by using folding screens to control accessibility, allowing the zones to be adaptable to the time of year or day.

The first multi-story building designed entirely with timber materials has finally won through over strict fire regulations from the Ministry of Construction in Japan.

Balanced on the spine of a rocky ridge, the 300 square metre linear house threads through a grove of strawberry trees. At the entrance, the beautifully timbered roof form is a common gable. All rooms are accessed off a central hallway.

An innovative combination of re-cycled hardwood and LVL has been used to create a factory prefabricated timber pavilion for a community garden in Melbourne.

An adaptable dwelling that solves a major inner-city liveability problem: lack of outdoor space.

A “home among the gum trees”, this 1000 m2 residence sits 140m above a valley and on a 30 to 60 degree slope - the concept was to ‘float’ amongst the trees.

This timber-framed-and-clad fishing hut like no other provides secure boat and tackle storage at one of the best fly-fishing locations in Britain.

Melling:Morse Architects drew their inspiration for this residence on a tiny, windy site from the local architectural history of modest weatherboard.

Presented as a corridor of archways, this ‘journey of time’ creates a series of delayed thresholds, or framed scenes.

The chapel’s hard, rectilinear stone and cool glass finishes are relieved and softened by ribbons of big-leaf maple veneer – visible from inside and out.

The development objectives were to create a beach community based on sustainable design principles, where each home visually engages with the ocean, has generous outdoor living room, and a sense of community through density, building relationships.