Features & Finishes

The design engages with the changing community perception of Kingpin, using a striking curved ceiling made from 40,000 individual hardwood dowels to create a deluxe atmosphere. The functionality of the space is enhanced through the creation of differently themed mini-venues throughout.

This project breaks away from the conventions of a typical office fitout, creating communal studios that become team households. The blurred boundaries, vibrant colour palette and use of timber encourage a contemporary way of working.

This community centre, named after infamous local activist Juanita Nielsen, is rejuvenated as a social place without sanitisation or gentrification. The 1888 heritage fabric is retained, up-cycled and celebrated, while precise ceiling geometry creates a distinctive zigzag motif, reminiscent of Juanita's famous portrait.

The nature play design of this renovated playground elicits a sense of place with the natural bushland backdrop. The project used timber for its design language around natural materials, as well as its versatility and flexibility in creating unique structures and play elements.

Noma 2.0 is the new restaurant for renowned Danish chef René Redzepi's New Nordic cuisine.

The Shipwreck Lodge is a luxury 20-bed, Eco-tourism resort located in an isolated location in the midst of the wild, but beautifully desolate Skeleton Coast Desert in Namibia.

Quin Wyatt combines huge beams of salvaged wood from Mornington pier with clean new timber to create Asian minimalist inspired residence.

This table responds to an existing curved building façade. The table top is finished to a narrow profile and appears to float freely from three legs. The classic components of traditional timber-turning verge on decorative but are simplified by their precise lines and repetition.

Taking inspiration from a lost grove of fig trees, this flexible venue provides a variety of experiences for diners, creating an intimate, comfortable, and familiar space. Sourced from old housing stock, the exposed timber reflects an honesty in the venue's dining values.

This home receives a refined modular extension with relaxed, light-filled gathering spaces. Set in its leafy suburban location, this family's new peaceful haven features sustainably-sourced blackbutt timber installed with efficiency.

Revamped and renewed, the dated interior of this established barbershop emerges as a dual space. Capatilising on the lack of coffee in the area, the shop maximises all forty of its square metres to establish a relaxing hub for locals and passers by.

Inbetween Architecture and Curious Grace collaborate to produce this dynamic exhibition. Elevating and encouraging visual interest and engagement from passers-by, the dressed pine timber stall complements the furniture design elements without competing with them.