Marcus Baumgart is a founding partner of Baumgart Clark Architects, which is based in Melbourne and Canberra and works throughout Victoria and ACT/NSW. He is a long-time freelance contributor to Architecture Media magazines, and the author of the blog marcusbaumgart.com. This blog explores the landscape and methods of uncertainty and certainty in relation to writing and design.
Marcus Baumgart's Latest contributions
Inner city agora: Emporium Melbourne
Emporium Melbourne is in some ways a model of classic retail planning, but in other ways it turns this model on its head.
Blackwood Street Bunker
Dubbed ‘The Bunker,’ this shared workplace gives new purpose to a building “only an architect could love.”
Force of gravity: Holiday House
A holiday home on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula by BKK Architects.
Architectural Urbanism: Seoul/Melbourne
This exhibition investigated divergent urban strategies explored by selected architects from Melbourne and Seoul.
Hover House
The central courtyard of this Bower Architecture house in Victoria is the focus of all daily activities.
Flipboard Cafe
This tiny, labyrinth-like cafe by Brolly Design to brings life to neglected corners of Melbourne’s CBD.
Smith Street Apartment
A Paris-inspired loft-style apartment added to a period mercantile building in Melbourne.
Saltwater Coast
Tract Consultants used landscape as the starting point for this new residential subdivision.
CBA Customer Service Centre
Davenport Campbell (interiors) and graphic agency Frost Design make a vibrant Melbourne workplace.
In the round: Prahran Hotel
Techne Architects transforms a tired corner pub into a lively hub with a hint of voyeurism.