Olivia Hyde leads the Design Excellence team at the Government Architect NSW and is a part-time professor of practice in architecture at the University of Sydney. She is a registered architect with diverse private sector experience on projects locally and internationally.
Olivia Hyde's Latest contributions
Small strategy: Good design is everyone’s business
Small projects (and practices) have much to offer government, writes Olivia Hyde at the office of the Government Architect NSW.
Life above lifestyle: Casba
Billard Leece Partnership and SJB Architects’ mixed-use project offers Sydney a new model for balancing private comfort and civic neighbourliness.
Agitated space: MUSE
Woods Bagot use evocative and angular spaces to provoke creativity within the student hub at Macquarie University.
Paddington Terrace
Bennett and Trimble elegantly resolve terrace house issues with considered small-scale interventions.
Waterloo Youth Family Community Centre
The conversion of a community centre by Collins and Turner in inner Sydney redefines the green roof.
Australia Street Infants School COLA
Scale Architecture has designed a neat covered outdoor learning area (COLA) at the Australia Street Infants School in Sydney.
Pirrama Park
Sydney’s awarded waterside park by Aspect Studios, Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects and CAB Consulting.
Perfect Skin
A little bit of Barcelona in Sydney. A new mixed-use building by Durbach Block on Roslyn Street, Potts Point.
North Avoca House
Lovingly dressed but somewhat wayward. Neeson Murcutt’s North Avoca House was an opportunity to explore wider issues around housing.