Perisher upgrade goes ahead.
After many years of ongoing involvement with the ski club Design King has been asked to proceed with plans to upgrade the lodge in what would be a second stage of renovations undertaken by us as architects.
Vaucluse House commences Construction
The office has recently received approval to proceed with the construction of our most recently documented house in Kings Road Vaucluse. The house is situated on the upper slopes of South Head very close to Francis Greenway’s original 1818 Lighthouse, the first lighthouse to be built in Australia.
Japan Sketches
My last blog touched on the physical experience of traveling in Japan and this week I want to post some of the sketches I did while there. They were done on my iphone using a sketchbook program I down loaded for $1.69. I have got to say it was a revelation.
Japan Visit
I have just returned from a week of journeying in Japan having visited Kyoto, the Island of Naoshima and Tokyo. In Kyoto we stayed in a wonderfully restored merchants house known as Machiya. The restoration and accomodation are organised by the Iori Group who are dedicated to the maintenance of traditional japanese culture. Named Ebisuya-cho the house was built in the 1920’s and situated in the old neighbourhood of central Kyoto. It was a lesson in compact planning and precise use of space.
Coogee House wins Randwick City Urban Design Award Single Residential Category
This week our Coogee House (King House) won the Single House category of the 2010 Randwick City Council Urban Design Awards. The jury consisted of Brian Zulaikha, President of the NSW Institiute of Architects, Chris Johnson the ex NSW Government Architect, prominent environmental Architect Caroline Pidcock, and two representatives of the Randwick Council Planning Department.
Horbury Hunt Awards 2010
Last night the office attended the awards ceremony for the 2010 Think Brick Awards at the Opera House.
Garden Establishment
The Garden at the recently completed Elizabeth Bay house has begun to benefit from the warmer weather and a bit of rain. As with all projects it takes time for the landscape to grow, thrive and become integrated with the architectural framework .
Cootapatamba Hut
A weekend of skiing on the main range usually takes in a some of the remaining mountain huts. In this case with a door that opens to the sky, a chimney that doesn’t smoke and a bedroom that has no windows would in any other context be most bizarre but here, in the ultra-violet rich atmosphere and moon like land-scape of Ramshead Range it seems appropriate.
The Micro Compact Home
It impresses me that people like Richard Horden continue to experiment and offer alternatives and solutions to the issue of housing
Architecture is a matter of transformation
The film “Doshi” follows the life and work of the famous Indian Architect Balkrishna Doshi and was conceived directed and scored by Premjit Ramachandran and Bijoy Ramachandran of 100hands who are based in Bangalore.
Doshi worked with Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier, two of the giants of 20th century architecture. Both had a profound effect on his work and life and modern day India, however he has sought to reinterpret this modernism of Europe and America to local conditions and climate, site and available technology.
