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Enchanted forest: Rose Bay House

Projects | All the glazed wall panels between the living areas and the garden slide back, and automated blinds come down to temper the fierce summer sun. The owners collect beautiful art and have a variety of fine...

Reuse

Archive | The new roof floats over the sandstone building of the former St James Station toilets. The cafe seen from Hyde Park. The outdoor cafe space sheltered by the pavilion roof and shaded by holland blin...

Active systems to reduce energy use

Practice | Blinds, including automated or sensor-operated, decrease heat loads in a room. If they are blocking direct sunlight, they also shield us from the uncomfortable effects of radiant heat. Home automation i...

Commendation for Housing

Archive | The extensive glazing to the north pavilion is protected via electrically operated, external sun control blinds and extensive eaves. JURY VERDICT Two generous single-level pavilions, separated by the ma...

Interiors

Archive | Twisting the envelope of a Victorian bedroom, Perth architect Gary Marinko / has created a matchstick-modern boardroom for a law firm in the mining industry.AboveOverall view of the first floor boar...

Frederick Romberg award for Residential Architecture — Multiple Housing

Archive | Operable louvred blinds enable individuals to temper the sunshine and prevailing winds, which in turn adds subtle textural variation to the architecture’s public facade. Fronting the opposite, private f...

620 Wickham Street

Projects | By the reduction of the window-area, or by the use of venetian blinds, we do not reduce the intensity at the point of entry. The only effect is to reduce the amount of light in the rest of the room, and...

2012 National Architecture Awards: Harry Seidler Award

Awards | The facade system includes an inner skin of performance glass, automated venetian blinds and an outer skin of clear glass separated by a naturally ventilated, externally accessible cavity. All aspects o...

2012 National Architecture Awards: Sustainable

Awards | The facade system includes an inner skin of performance glass, automated ventilated blinds and an outer skin of clear glass that is separated by a naturally ventilated accessible cavity. In addition to ...

2013 National Architecture Awards: Public

Awards | The north facade uses a series of fixed sunbreakers, blinds and sliding internal panels to allow maximum enjoyment of natural light and views with the flexibility to control it. The design provides maxi...

Radical yet respectful: EDG Forum

Projects | Archer needed to “peel away the piecemeal additions, plasterboard walls and window blinds.” Once this had been done they were still faced with “an incredibly dark space,” which was not helped by the dar...

Unlocked potential: D House

Projects | Operable blinds, concealed within the head of the opening, alternatively allow complete privacy to the bedroom. A linear skylight lets in soft natural light and articulates the transition to the living ...

Scenery and shenanigans: Rocky House

Projects | A weekend charrette involving a bunch of happy campers from Base Architecture resulted in a love and understanding of this expansive, semirural site. Perched high on a hill with a foreground of the sl...

Telescopic vision: Annandale House

Projects | Welsh and Major Architects doesn’t seem to have a predictable tactic or a recognizable style that the architects apply to every project. Even if it did, every site is different and every client is dif...

Brick by brick: Grey Street House

Projects | Arising from the constraints of a modest site and budget, Grey Street House by Local Architecture celebrates the beauty of humble materials and the legacy and process of making. Sitting respectfully b...

Tranquil and textural: A Pavilion Between Trees

Projects | That said, sheer dark curtains and blockout blinds are available when needed. To further encourage a sense of refuge, volumes are lit naturally or indirectly and mainly organic and raw materials were ch...

Hiding in plain sight: Macmasters Beach House

Projects | Macmasters Beach House by Polly Harbison Design plays a game of stealth. In a secluded pocket of the New South Wales Central Coast, it hides in plain sight above a sand dune – a concrete bunker sheath...

‘On the rocks’: The story of Sirius and the fight to save it

Review | Myra Demetriou, the last resident remaining in Tao Gofers’ Sirius, may be 90 years of age and legally blind, but she refuses to be intimidated by a concerted government effort to displace residents of...

Tracing a ‘revelatory path’: 2017 NGV Architecture Commission

Projects | In the blinding light of a thirty-three-degree summer day, I watch a black-clad figure exit the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) Great Hall onto the court fronting the garden, cross the misting mo...

Idiosyncratic luxury: Brae Guest Houses

Projects | There is a synergy between the architecture of Brae by Six Degrees Architects and the food by its client and chef Dan Hunter. Brae is located on a farm outside of Birregurra in Victoria, a town of eig...

2015 National Architecture Awards: Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Awards | Jury citation / The jury found this slimmest of residential slabs on a 126-square-metre site in Surry Hills, Sydney to be an exciting prototype for creatively rethinking tight inner urban locations. ...

Unbuilt

Archive | THE OFFERINGTHE OFFERING / Project team— / Richard Weller, / Gary Marinko, / Mike Rowlands, / Bruce RoweKaren Burns considers Richard Weller and Gary Marinko's shortlisted entry to the Tsunami Memori...

Hawthorn House

Projects | Surrounded by Edwardian and Victorian brick edifices off a bustling road in Melbourne’s inner-east, you could be forgiven for thinking you’d stepped back in time, were it not for the rows of luxury ca...

Balmain East Residence

Projects | The shoreline around Sydney Harbour varies enormously, as do the houses on its waterfront. Modern properties on the eastern shores are designed to maximize the view at all costs. They are characterize...

Carnsworth House

Projects | While interiors by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects (JCB) always distinguish themselves, it is primarily the shells housing them that the practice is well known for. For this idiosyncratic 1960s ho...

So, what would Utzon do now?

Review | Soon enough the microphone crackles to life, blinds are lowered and the symposium begins in earnest. “What would Utzon do now” – the distinctively evangelical theme of the symposium, resonated with the ...

Enlightened learning: William Macmahon Ball Theatre

Projects | In these days of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and smart teaching with increasingly smarter devices, it might seem a little odd to be spending time and energy designing a lecture theatre. After ...

Dining with drama: Prix Fixe

Projects | It’s been said many times that Melbourne’s laneways are the lifeblood of the city. These narrow streets-between-streets have developed a cult status and are burgeoning with well-caffeinated cosmopolit...

Up the line: Lagoon House

Projects | Located in the south-eastern corner of the South Arm Peninsula, just outside Hobart, Clifton Beach is uniquely positioned on an isthmus between Pipe Clay Lagoon to the north and its popular surf beach...

Going with the grain: Hurlstone House

Projects | Revitalized original windows, big new doors that enable the courtyard facades to be slid away, clerestory lights in the kitchen, large vertically proportioned windows protected by external blinds and sk...