Norfolk apartments

It is rare, in Sydney, to design for a site and building located as close to the water as this one. Externally, this building is designed to be calm, refined and discrete. With surroundings like these, ostentatious architecture would merely distract from the stunning views to the harbour. Due to the steeply sloping site, the apartments at Kurraba Road are barely visible from the street. It is only from the water that the finely detailed roof and facade of the building can be seen. The roof is intentionally kept light and tapered: together with the consistently expressed floor slab edges this creates a dominant language of thin horizontal planes. The rooms between these planes step back to reduce perceived building mass and allow for more p... More