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Country - Australia
Location - Cairns
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Dramatic sectional layering and extensive openings to the outdoors create a small home with a strong visual impact.

Fewer walls, more life: Big Small House

Designed according to the philosophy that “less is more,” this layered family home by People Oriented Design offers an engaging contribution to the conversation about twenty-first-century Queensland architecture.

Residential
The form of the house is created by two curving concrete slabs (which overlap but aren’t the same shape) with glass in between.

Tropical living machine: Planchonella House

Immersed in a luscious rainforest, this home by Jesse Bennett Architect is a precious, handcrafted object that embraces the tropical climate and is a delight to inhabit.

Residential
Queensland Maple and Brown Penda decking from the site were recycled into the new built structures.

Cairns Foreshore Development

A landmark collaborative project led by the landscape architecture team at RPS.

Landscape / urban
The Cairns Institute at James Cook University’s Cairns campus.

The Cairns Institute

Woods Bagot and RPA Architects design a facility for tropical studies at James Cook University, Cairns.

Education
Triangular volumes form the basis of the plan, and the shape is repeated throughout the interior and exterior.

Oribin House + Studio (1956-58) revisited

Maverick architect Eddie Oribin’s Queensland home is enjoying a renaissance.

Residential
The house references Philip Johnson’s International Style Glass House, minus the glass.

(–) Glass House

Charles Wright Architects reinterprets the classic Philip Johnson Glass House for Cairns.

Residential
View over the parkland along Lake Street towards the Cairns CBD.

Cairns Cruise Liner Terminal

Arkhefield, Total Project Group Architects

Cardno S.P.L.A.T.’s Cairns Cruise Liner Terminal is sculptural, elegant and controlled.

Commercial, Public / cultural