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Project • By Jost ArchitectsPrivate Houses

Mollymook Beach House

After seeing how we’d refurbished and renewed their friend’s beach shack home at Burrill Lake, on NSW’s South Coast, our clients engaged us to work some similar magic on their ‘unusual’ home at nearby Mollymook Beach. The Palm Co. While the house was set on a flat 680sq m block just one road back from the beach, the existing dwelling had some challenges. Inside, the house was dark, with a compromised, multi-levelled floorplan featuring one and a half bedrooms and no real connection to the generous backyard. Weird would be a polite way of describing the layout. The Palm Co. The late 1970s house had also been given an ill-thought-out internal makeover in the 1990s which was beginning to look tired and... More

Project • By Cera StribleyPrivate Houses

Parkside Beach House

Taking inspiration from the iconic Mornington bathing boxes, Parkside Beach House features concrete bricks and timber batten cladding throughout. The property is ideal for multi-family use and balances open and spacious communal areas with the privacy of secluded retreats. This holiday home is designed to accommodate multiple families and guests simultaneously, creating the need for both insulated, private spheres as well as functional and welcoming communal areas. With apartment-like spaces, private entry points and a kitchenette independent of the main living/kitchen area, Parkside fits this brief perfectly. With the dramatic juxtaposition of the timber batten cladding and block work of the carport area, the exterior of the... More

Project • By WALARestaurants

Little Man Cafe

The Little Man Cafe is located along the main community strip in the quaint part of Seddon. The neighbourhood in this area has undergone a shift in pace over the last few years of a gentrifi ed nature which sees more cafes and small businesses sprouting up accompanying the infl ux of younger families moving into the area. The cafe occupies a corner lot once belonged to the old Post Off ice which has since moved a couple of spots up the street. The insides of the building was left severely dilapidated, however given its prime corner shop location and prominent street frontage, the new owners were keen to revitalise this empty shell of a building and in doing so, contribute to the growth of Victoria Street. Despite the long and narrow... More

Product • By t-bac designNed Pendant

Ned Pendant

Of all the icons in Australian history, to many none are more dramatic than the helmets of the Kelly gang! The Kelly gang lighting collection is acontemporary series of tubular sculptural lights inspired by the forms of those helmets. The lights are laser cut from extruded aluminium tube with a satin powder-coated outer finish and an anodised or powder- coated inner finish. The Kelly gang lights emit a soft, warm light through the slotted visor with a more abundant warm glow flowing from the bottom which will reflect the interior gold or other colours, enhancing the contrast against the matt black exterior. Bushrangers, folk heroes or revolutionaries, the exploits of the Kelly gang increasingly attract world attention. More