Queensland
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Project • By Kirsten Johnstone Architecture • Private Houses
Veil & Co. House
Idyllically located in a Sunshine Coast hamlet wedged between nature reserves, Currimundi Lake and the surf beach, Veil + Co. House is a multigenerational co-living coastal residence. With an atypical entry and a deeply setback main dwelling, the project reinterprets traditional Queensland housing for contemporary living, showcasing flexible accommodation and high levels of privacy.
Alanna Jayne McTiernan
This new home needed to flexibly accommodate grandparents or Airbnb guests while also providing adaptable long term family living along with work-from-home requirements for both parents. Visual and acoustic privacy required particular attention to suit a multigenerational or shared accommodation arrangement with the clients’ yo... More
Project • By Phorm architecture + design • Housing
Family Treehouse
The Family Tree House is a set of architectural interventions grafted onto a remnant coastal character house.
There is a family lineage to the house, it has been our Client’s Grandmother’s place and in turn his mother’s home. At its core was a humble one-bedroom hardwood framed cottage with an enclosed verandah wrapping along its eastern and northern edges. Accompanying and protecting the house is a colossal Weeping Fig planted generations ago, it has been climbed by our Client and his siblings as children and his own 3 boys whilst the family gathered beneath its boughs in the coolth of its shade.
Christopher Frederick Jones
Our site strategy is one of respect and retention, with the architecture aspiring to c... More
Project • By Elenberg Fraser • Urban Green Spaces
66 Hope Street
Forest & Lane delves into our fascination with contemporary Queensland and our deep reverence for the local Murri way of life. We have long admired the Queenslander and our concept pays homage to the unique architectural set up of elevating living yet maintaining the natural topography of the land.
Composed of two buildings raised 30m off the ground modestly supported by slender pilotis, we seek to evacuate the ground plane and to introduce a new urban thoroughfare; the linear forest, the laneway and the cabinet of curiosities all within a single urban gesture. The city receives a new tactile forest experience with dense layered vegetation that seeks a visceral connectedness to the original custodians of the land, the Turrbal and Jager... More