Articles Tagged with ''Australia''

In 1996, architect John Denton purchased 150 acres of land—78 of them under vine—in the middle of the Yarra Valley, about an hour’s drive from Melbourne; think of it as Napa Valley’s Australian cousin.

The Zinc House is an adaptive re-use of a building that dates back to the 19th century.

No one told Jackson Clements Burrows Architects they weren’t supposed to play with stacking blocks on a tennis court—and the Australian firm’s clients are glad. 

Project Specs Kew House Melbourne, Australia Jackson Clements Burrows Architects << Return to article the People Architect Jackson Clements Burrows Pty Ltd Architects Principal architects  Tim Jackson, Jon Clements, Graham Burrows Project architect Andrew Bos Project team Tim Jackson, Jon Clements, Graham Burrows, Andrew Bos, Tim Leslie Contractor Murray Dance (Dance Brothers Builders) Structural engineer Andrew Beattie (Adams Consulting Engineers) Roofing contractor Chris Sinn (Specialised Roofing Services) Landscape Jim Fogarty (Jim Fogarty Landscape Design)   the Products External materials Alternating Colorbond and Rheinzink flat-sheet panels, messmate cladding, Kidco anodized aluminium windows and doors, frameless glass balustrades, grey ironbark decking, synthetic

It was just about five years ago that I sat down with my colleague Alanna Stang to begin work on a survey of ecoconscious residential design, ultimately published as The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005). The book’s thesis was straightforward: The green-design and high-design wings of the architecture profession, which had looked at one another for so long across a chasm of mutual disdain, were beginning to find common ground. Photo © Earl Carter Half of Australian houses sit within 8 miles of a beach. The Glenburn House reverses the house/water relationship, looking like

Project Specs: Glenburn House by Sean Godsell Architects