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06 Latest08 Coast12 Main Ridge House14 Rhodes Peninsula18 Barangaroo Apartments20 Newcastle City Centre24 The Lighthouse28 Armadale Residence32 Parramatta Tower Competition34 Errington Master Plan36 Nissan House
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Our passion is the built environment. We are proud to have worked on some of Australia’s most recognisable and innovative projects. Over the years, we have built a reputation for bringing enthusiasm, creativity and personal commitment to every commission whether it’s the interior design of someone’s dream home, or the planning and revitalisation of an entire site. Our four entities, SJB Architects, SJB Interiors, SJB Planning and SJB Urban, work as interlocking teams, giving us a cohesive and versatile approach that generates innovative and holistic thinking. In short, SJB is more than the sum of its parts.
We see ourselves as a collection of experts; a multi-disciplinary practice that embraces architecture, interior design, town planning and urban design. Our collective goal is to contribute meaningfully and responsibly to the environments in which we all live. We collaborate with a diverse range of clients, from individuals and research groups to multi-nationals and government agencies, on ventures that aim to achieve this goal, both here in Australia and internationally.
Above all, our practice is about people. Our own knowledge and expertise is constantly expanding, advancing and adapting by working with our clients and communities. We value the relationships we build with those who are passionate about meeting the challenges of our times.
This brochure gives you an insight into our people, some of our built works, and some that we’re currently working on. We hope it will give you an insight into how we think, how we work, and how we strive to fulfil our mission of creating spaces people love.
This is SJB
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This year, SJB celebrates 38 years in practice. Increasingly, as the projects showcased here demonstrate, we are working collaboratively across the SJB network to harness the breadth of knowledge and expertise across our eight offices in Melbourne and Sydney. This inter-disciplinary approach enhances our design philosophy towards a more versatile, cohesive and innovative built environment, and its success is apparent in the diversity of projects with which we are currently involved; projects that range from residential interiors to large-scale redevelopment projects.
Our recent multi-unit residential projects reflect a typological diversity which is driven by an increasingly varied demographic of Australians who are choosing inner-city living. In Melbourne, Tapestry offers a highly crafted product quite distinct from the norm in the rapidly developing inner suburb of Collingwood (p6). In Sydney, Coast (p8) offers a lifestyle in contrast to the poorly designed post-war housing and extravagant private residences of the Bondi area, and SJB Interiors’ work at Barangaroo has set an exemplary bench-mark for new and future development as Sydney’s largest development in decades.
A number of larger projects we have recently been involved with in Melbourne and Sydney have offered an opportunity to investigate the challenges and possibilities for higher-density living in satellite urban and suburban areas. The redevelopment of Newcastle’s east end (p20) highlights a growing challenge in Australian cities – the need to revitalise former commercial and working areas to increase both residential and retail product. Victoria’s Wyndham Harbour, on the other hand, presents a green-field site, a tabula rasa on which designers and planners must imagine and create an eco-system to ensure future natural and cultural sustainability.
As always, there is great pleasure and satisfaction in the design and construction of unique homes for our residential clients. Our design of the inner suburban residence in Armadale (p28) challenges the ubiquitous relationship between house and street, while creating a spacious and light-filled family home and garden. On the Mornington Peninsula, Main Ridge House (p12) is a refreshing coastal dwelling crafted with exceptionally high quality natural materials.
After almost four decades, SJB’s commitment to high quality design is as strong as it was when Nissan House (p36) was completed in 1983. Our continued interest in investigating new technology and modes of practice to create bold and intriguing architectural outcomes is reflected in our recent built work and our participation in competitions such as the Parramatta Tower design (p32).
We look forward to many more exciting projects this year, and hope you enjoy this review of our recent and current projects.
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Barangaroo Retail
Barangaroo is the largest landmark development project Sydney has seen for decades and SJB Interiors has been engaged by Lend Lease to prepare retail precinct guidelines for the shop fronts and signage at South Barangaroo.
The intent of the guidelines is to create a number of interesting and unique street level retail experiences, and to ensure that a sense of human scale is maintained.
Following the finalisation of the guidelines, we have been working with each of the building’s architects and Lend Lease to review the designs.
ANZ Stadium
SJB Interiors has been engaged by ANZ Stadium to re-design the existing Centreline lounge and dining space. The client brief is to provide a contemporary, masculine space providing a great dining and bar experience for the Centreline Seats members.
Working with a refined tonal palette of natural timbers, rough honed granites, glazed volcanic tiles and the existing concrete finishes, we have contrasted textures rather than colours as a way to express spaces. The two new bars are positioned to physically define and enclose the space, creating an appropriate club atmosphere.
The Guilfolye
SJB Planning worked collaboratively with SJB Architects to coordinate and manage the approval of a number of amendments to the planning permit, facilitating better commercial and design outcomes for our client. Approval was obtained for an additional 39 apartments in response to changing market conditions.
The Guilfoyle forms a backdrop to the Shrine of Remembrance and, in collaboration with key members of the project team, we used our planning expertise to sensitively and successfully resolve various planning and design challenges, including wind effects and reflectivity, with the relevant authorities.
SJB Planning also obtained planning approval for Liquor Licences (restaurant/cafe) for each of the four ground floor commercial tenancies, increasing their market appeal and value.
LOGIS Dandenong North Industrial Park
SJB Planning is the town planning consultant for the LOGIS Dandenong North Eco-Industrial park, which sets a new benchmark for sustainability in Australian industrial developments. Our clients are Places Victoria, an urban renewal organisation working with the Victorian Government and private sector. This project is on Melbourne Water land formerly used as a water treatment plant, and is Victoria’s first eco-industrial development.
We have been assisting Places Victoria since the initial stages of the proposed industrial subdivision of the 154 hectare parcel of land, providing strategic planning advice and input into the creation of urban design guidelines to inform future development outcomes. The planning approvals process has necessitated collaborative working arrangements with a large multi-disciplinary project team as well as local and state government stakeholders.
A Planning Permit for the staged subdivision of the land was successfully obtained in August 2013. We continue to be involved in the subdivision certification and statement of compliance process, and have also commenced work on statutory planning applications to facilitate project delivery.
One of the applications we are working on is a proposal to integrate public Soccer5s facilities into the site. The proposal is for the construction of eight all-weather five-a-side soccer pitches, two all-weather seven-a-side pitches and associated clubhouse and cafe/bar facilities. The development will promote the growth of the sport through the delivery of inclusive, innovative and environmentally sustainable facilities.
In May 2014 it also won the best business or industrial park award at the Property Council of Australia’s national innovation and excellence awards for outstanding quality and environmental performance.
Tapestry Apartments, Collingwood
In the sought-after Melbourne neighbourhood of Collingwood, Tapestry Apartments is a clever design solution to a unique site. Despite a limited street frontage of just 10m and a depth of 40m, Tapestry offers 21 spacious apartments over seven floors; a limited collection of boutique spaces for modern urban living.
Light wells maximise open space and natural light on these narrow floor plates, and the interior space is defined using highly crafted and detailed joinery elements. These features also create an elegant sculptural background to the living environment, and also reference the heritage of the area. The selected material palette of profiled raw concrete, black steel and hand-made tiles, juxtaposed against a crisp contemporary shell, gives a sophisticated ambience that captures both Collingwood’s past and future.
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38 Years in Practice
Founded on April Fool’s Day 1976 by Alan Synman, Charles Justin and Michael Bialek, SJB has grown into eight entities across two cities, with 140 people. This year we celebrate 38 years in practice, continuing to work towards the creation better cities through great design.
We thank our teams in Melbourne and Sydney for their enthusiasm, knowledge and contribution to achieving our goals.
The Pacific Dunes Estate
Pacific Dunes is a housing estate integrated with an 18-hole golf course in Medowie, NSW. SJB Planning has been working with the client group and consultant team, led by the developer RCL Group, on a planning proposal to amend the planning controls to rezone a significant and environmentally sensitive area of privately owned land from a special recreation open space zone to an environmental protection zone. The proposal also sought to rezone an area within the estate previously identified as the village centre precinct, including short term tourist accommodation, and a range of medium and small-lot residential development.
The planning proposal was further pursued to develop later stages of the project and to introduce an expanded and diversified range of housing types within the estate, as well as to facilitate the consolidation of the environmentally sensitive land into an appropriate environmental land use zone.
After extensive consultation and dialogue with council and state agencies, particularly the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, the rezoning has now been successfully completed and come into force.
We work with the RCL Group on a range of Development Applications for the estate including clubhouse upgrades, and community infrastructure provision.
2-14 Northcote Street, Naremburn
Working in collaboration with Popov Bass Architects, SJB Planning prepared the Development Application for a private developer client looking to create a mixed-use development on this site. Northcote Street sits on the northern fringes of the St Leonards Station and Royal North Shore Hospital precincts, and as such forms a significant transition between the adjoining commercial uses and the lower-scale residential development and open-space recreation areas.
The transition between the commercial and residential uses presented us with a number of challenges relating to building bulk and scale, solar access and privacy, all of which we resolved successfully.
Development consent was achieved via the JRPP for 120 dwellings, commercial space and a child care centre in a building ranging from four to ten storeys in height. This development will continue the transformation of the St Leonards / Naremburn boundary from low rise, older style commercial buildings into a revitalised mixed-use precinct.
Making: 2014 National Architecture Conference
The 2014 National Architecture Conference, which took place in May this year in Perth, was curated by Adam Haddow, Director of SJB Architects Sydney, architectural critic and academic Helen Norrie, and architect Sam Crawford. The team selected the theme ‘Making’, and the conference explored four subthemes: making culture, making life, making connections and making impact. More than a dozen international speakers focused on architectural excellence grown in different economic, cultural and political contexts, looking to Asia, Africa and South America to discover alternatives to the European models. The speakers were drawn from regions that have traditionally been underrepresented, such as South America, Africa and Asia. “We want to look at architectural practice in different cultural, economic and social situations,” Adam says. “It’s a very different context from Europe and North America, and we want to see the innovative ways architects are finding to deliver excellence in challenging environments. We also want to open discussion about creating the conditions that enable architecture excellence around the world.”
150 years in the making: Cleveland & Co
SJB Architects have this year worked with renowned interior designers Burley Katon Halliday (BKH) to create Surry Hills’ latest landmark residential development: Cleveland & Co. Situated on land once owned by the famous William Redfern, this Cleveland Street edifice was known colloquially as the Demco building. Two buildings form the unique site, the 1889 New York & Brooklyn Tobacco Factory, designed by Sydney architect R. Kunstman, and the 1938 Demco Machinery Company, the work of J. Aubrey Kerr.
SJB and BKH have together created a new chapter in these buildings’ long history, capturing the historic features of their industrial foundations within a contemporary, functional elegance. Residents will find themselves in a city oasis, with all the amenities Surry Hills has to offer outside and unique features from a watering hole in the lobby to a rooftop terrace with astounding views. SJB’s design has carefully restored and updated the exterior, making this building the latest feature in this old suburb’s regeneration.
Guardian Child Care
Guardian Childcare commissioned SJB Architects to prepare a concept for a childcare centre that could accommodate 78 under-fives in the CBD of Sydney. With limited outdoor space available in this fit-out, the design concept looked at ways to create the qualities of outdoor space in an indoor environment. We achieved this with the provision of an ‘umbrella ceiling’ and naturalistic tree sculptures. We also provided intimate spaces for little people to enjoy, such as tepees and rooms within rooms with recognisable ‘cubby house’ profiles. The root base and ‘welcoming hollows’ at the bases of fig trees inspired the housing of the toilet block. Doors and windows designed at a child’s scale give a sense of ownership of the daily play space, which is designed to contribute to the children’s sense of exploration and creativity.
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Coast, a complex of 6 apartments, is located at the end of the Ben Buckler peninsula – a rocky headland overlooking Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach.
Perched within the natural headland and walking distance from the beach, the apartments were designed to complement their natural surrounds within the context of Bondi’s existing culture and architecture. We wanted to be able to provide larger, high quality residential dwellings combined with exceptional amenity—something we think is rare in Bondi.
We found that the boxy nature of the surrounding buildings is created partly by the lack of balconies—typical of an outdated development style that did not place importance on a connection with the external environment. We wanted the design to provide the iconic indoor/outdoor lifestyle of contemporary Australia. The amenity to each apartment is exceptional, with large courtyards and balconies complimenting living areas, and smaller more intimate balconies and terraces providing private outdoor space to the bedrooms.
A hard edge helps define the street interface, hides the car parking and elevates the private courtyards off the ground level. This edge is broken at the point of the pedestrian interface through the insertion of a landscaped court, providing identity and sense of arrival to the building and a point of mediation between the street level and the raised landscaped gardens.
The basement and entry are cut into the headland, forming a podium upon which the building sits. The apartments above are articulated as a simple, pure geometry; two rectangular extrusions separated by a vertical recess. The external surface is punctuated by deep irregular cuts, each incision exposing a patterned marble surface. The depth of the marble façade orchestrates the relationship between the interior and exterior architecture by manipulating and framing views, privacy and the external environment.
Above the basement and entry podium each apartment is mirrored along a central axis, giving a continuous façade to three sides, surrounded by landscaped courtyards terracing with the fall of the headland. Every living space and bedroom opens to a balcony or courtyard – a continuous connection to the outside experienced through the apertures of deep, angled reveals. Glazing disappears seamlessly into concealed pockets within the building fabric, the unobstructed transparency of each opening contrasting with the monumentality and solidity of the marble façade.
Natural materials are used extensively; wide lime-washed oak floors, travertine stone and aged brass benchtops with a natural patina. The palette of materials, with a sandy warmth, are punctuated by highlights of dark bronze and muted green mosaic tiles in the bathrooms. The interiors have a casual elegance throughout the apartment, designed to maximise spatial connectivity and the exceptional views.
CoastBen Buckler Headland, Bondi
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This private residence at Main Ridge on the Mornington Peninsula located atop rolling hills with expansive views to the Bass Strait, was recently rebuilt, extended and completely redesigned as a contemporary and stylish coastal retreat.
Redesigned with luxury, comfort and elegance to the fore, the residence has a distinctive American flavour, with wide interior spaces and natural light filtered through traditional plantation shutters. It holds practical and spacious living and dining rooms, a kitchen with butler’s pantry and four bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, and the master suite comprises a master bedroom, dressing room, en suite bathroom, study and sitting room.
We used a palette of natural materials in the interior design, including wide-plank oak timber floors in soft grey and laid in a modern parquet design, complemented by exposed rock walls, ebonised steel, planked timbers, inserted woven wall coverings and large exposed white roof trusses. The bathrooms and kitchens feature contrastive Elba white marble and honed black stone. Bespoke interior detailing includes a custom-designed oak kitchen, a dark steel rangehood and crafted joinery details. The soft furnishings include English carpets, Belgian linens and woven wool fabrics. Our clients completed their refurbishments with a selection of artwork by local artists.
Main Ridge ResidenceContemporary American style
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This ex-industrial brownfield site was earmarked for regeneration a decade ago by the NSW State Government. With excellent transport links and a peninsula position affording wide views of the inner harbour, it was ideal as a new development providing medium to high-density residential living. Supported by retail, recreation and community amenities, the development offers exceptional foreshore parks and cycle paths through Sydney Olympic Park.
Working alongside Canada Bay Council, SJB developed the Master Plan for the central portion of the precinct, which includes a total of eight individual super-lots.
Through the planning process, we were engaged by the landowners to provide designs for a number of master-planned lots, most of which have now been completed. The last lots, 2A and 3A, are currently under construction and are due to be completed in 2015. These lots cover a total area of 58,000sqm, and include 2150sqm of retail space.
The final lots comprise three stages: ‘Harbour Views’ and ‘Parkside’, now completed with a total of 325 apartments; ‘Shores’, currently under construction with a total of 160 apartments; and ‘Bayside’ and ‘Skyline’ which together will offer 275 apartments. Also included is a unique public space, designed in conjunction with landscape architects Oculus.
Once completed, the Rhodes development will provide 2050 apartments; quality high-density living in what is fast becoming one of the inner west’s most desirable precincts.
Rhodes PeninsulaRegenerating Sydney’s industrial legacy
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Awarded the master plan by Multiplex and Trafalgar for foreshore precicnt (10ha)
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DCP completed for the site, in partnership with Architectus and Jane Irwin Landscape
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Billbergia engage SJB for Site 1A: multi-residential, 250 dwellings, basement parking, 6–8 storey
2009 – completed
Bridge Hill engage SJB to complete documentation for Site 1B: multi-residential, 135 dwellings, 4–8 storey
2010 – completed
Design development and documentation on site 3D (Monaco) for Bridge Hill: Mix use residential, 220 dwellings, 9 storey, basement parking
2012 – current
Sites 2A and 3A are amalgamated by Billbergia and a review of the planning controls delivers changes to land use zoning and building heights.
The project includes a total of 5 stages with stage 1 completed, and further stages to be completed by 2015: mixed use, 760 dwellings, 6–25 storey towers, basement parking, publilc domain.
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SJB Interiors was selected by Lend Lease to be part of the design team associated with the first apartment building in Sydney’s largest, most scrutinised development site – Barangaroo.
In collaboration with FJMT Architects, our design concepts were inspired by the harbour side location, incorporating a relaxed finishes palette with an abundance of natural materials, highlighted with reflective surfaces and sparkling details.
A strong emphasis was placed on each apartment layout to maximise the harbour views and allow for a light filled interior environment.
The launch of the Anadara building in late August 2013 saw all 159 apartments selling within just 3.5 hours. The public’s confidence in the Barangaroo development and design team, as well as Sydney’s real estate market was on clear display.
Barangaroo ApartmentsSydney’s newest landmark
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NewcastleRedesigning a city centre
In 2011, the Lonely Planet rated Newcastle one of the Top 10 cities in the world to visit. New York was voted number one, however, following SJB (Architects, Urban & Planning) being awarded the master plan for the Newcastle CBD, we can look forward to knocking New York off its perch.
The client is a joint venture between GPT and UrbanGrowth NSW, both of whom have a long history of working in Newcastle, with varying success in delivering outcomes. The team, led by Adam Haddow and Jonathan Knapp along with Alison McCabe from SJB Planning were selected having successfully negotiated the two-stage tendering process. A key concept identified during the submission process was the opportunities offered by the site’s unique and steeply undulating topography, which allows parking and servicing to be screened by active retail and residential uses, whilst being hidden within the ground plane. The change in levels also allows a number of connections to be made through the site to adjoining streets to create a highly permeable and exciting movement network where routes cross and intersect at key points within the CBD.
The success of this master planning project will be striking the balance between land uses, community expectations and market realities, the delivery of adjacent infrastructure, and integrating this project into a number of significant urban regeneration projects that are planned for Newcastle City. The project, which consists of 80,000 sqm of retail, residential, commercial and community uses, and a construction value of $375 million, is to serve as the catalyst for the regeneration of Newcastle. The 6-month program incorporated a comprehensive community and stakeholder consultation strategy, including engagement with the Department of Planning and Infrastructure, Newcastle City Council, Transport for NSW, property owners, local businesses and the broader community.
The staged (Concept Master Plan) Development Application was lodged with Council on 31st March 2014 and will be assessed by the Joint Regional Planning Panel. The application is seeking to lock-in development framework for the site where the heights, massing, setbacks and floor space will be defined and supplemented by site specific controls outlined in the Newcastle Urban Renewal Strategy.
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The Concept Proposal distils the aspirations and controls outlined in the Newcastle Urban Renewal Strategy, Local Environment Plan and other policies, the findings of the urban analysis (2.0), and the design principles outlined above (3.0), to include the 10 key design manoeuvres for the concept proposal.
Q Respect views to and from the Cathedral from key vantage points and public spaces
W Reinstate the Market Square in the centre of the site, accommodating a range of public uses, activities and passive activities - the focal point for the East End
E Two retail anchors at diagonally opposite points, driving the retail circuit within and through the site
R Residential towers located at the south-eastern and south-western corners of the site, where their impacts can be mitigated
T Realign Laing Street so that development can screen the car park and connect Newcomen Street to Perkins Street through a new east-west pedestrianised environment
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U Hunter Street Mall to remain the primary retail space for Newcastle - including public realm improvements and the potential for Light Rail
I Reinforce the existing north-south connections through the site, including Wolfe, Thorn, Perkins and Newcomen Streets
O Respect the unique character of the East End by retaining and adaptively reusing existing heritage buildings, in addition to those already listed, and
P Reinstate the north-south spine along Market Street, connecting the site to the harbour foreshore along a pedestrianised space that can accommodate markets, public events and passive activities.
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The Concept Proposal distils the aspirations and controls outlined in the NURS, LEP and other policies, the findings of the urban analysis (2.0), and the design principles outlined above (3.0), to include the 10 key design manoeuvres for the concept proposal.
1. Respect views to and from the Cathedral from key vantage points and public spaces
2. Reinstate the Market Square in the centre of the site, accommodating a range of public uses, activities and passive activities - the focal point for the East End
3. Two retail anchors at diagonally opposite points, driving the retail circuit within and through the site
4. Residential towers located at the south-eastern and south-western corners of the site, where their impacts can be mitigated
5. Realign Laing Street so that development can screen the car park and connect Newcomen Street to Perkins Street through a new east-west pedestrianised environment
6. King Street to serve as the primary service and access point for vehicles
7. Hunter Street Mall to remain the primary retail space for Newcastle - including public realm improvements and the potential for Light Rail
8. Reinforce the existing north-south connections through the site, including Wolfe, Thorn, Perkins and Newcomen Streets
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10. Reinstate the north-south spine along Market Street, connecting the site to the harbour foreshore along a pedestrianised space that can accommodate markets, public events and passive activities.
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The Concept Proposal distils the aspirations and controls outlined in the NURS, LEP and other policies, the findings of the urban analysis (2.0), and the design principles outlined above (3.0), to include the 10 key design manoeuvres for the concept proposal.
1. Respect views to and from the Cathedral from key vantage points and public spaces
2. Reinstate the Market Square in the centre of the site, accommodating a range of public uses, activities and passive activities - the focal point for the East End
3. Two retail anchors at diagonally opposite points, driving the retail circuit within and through the site
4. Residential towers located at the south-eastern and south-western corners of the site, where their impacts can be mitigated
5. Realign Laing Street so that development can screen the car park and connect Newcomen Street to Perkins Street through a new east-west pedestrianised environment
6. King Street to serve as the primary service and access point for vehicles
7. Hunter Street Mall to remain the primary retail space for Newcastle - including public realm improvements and the potential for Light Rail
8. Reinforce the existing north-south connections through the site, including Wolfe, Thorn, Perkins and Newcomen Streets
9. Respect the unique character of the East End by retaining and adaptively reusing existing heritage buildings, in addition to those already listed, and
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The LighthouseWyndham Harbour
Wyndham Harbour, just 30 minutes west of Melbourne’s CBD is the kind of large-scale infrastructural landscape that has the ability to provide a new, healthy and sustainable place to live for an expanding urban population. This project is focused on establishing a sense of community and neighbourhood character and importantly, enabling a sense of place to grow over time through provision of attractive amenity that allows people to interact with one another.
With an increasing number of Melbournians moving to the fringe suburbs as the inner-city areas become cramped and exclusively expensive, there appears to be a renewed desire to employ the skills of architects in the master-planning and strategic framework establishment of fringe suburbs, suggesting a shift in community expectations for housing and planning. A far cry from the urban infill projects of inner-city Melbourne, the success of individual architectural projects in this environment relies on an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to landscape urbanism - understanding the scale, urban fabric, regional and cultural context, and designing relationships between a new dynamic environment and an evolving urban form.
Developed collaboratively with SJB Urban and Tract Landscape Architects, our design for the Lighthouse, situated at the prominent termination of Quay Boulevard at the Marina and fronting the major new foreshore, crafted an intimately urban response and defines an architectural form uniquely responsive to water-front living.
The north-south orientation of the site provided the ability to maximise northern orientation and views to the distant CBD, but limited the number of apartments with bay views to the west. To ameliorate this,
the building was massaged to create a multi-faceted form which could provide a greater array of views and outlook. The northern edge of the form was carved out to create a large courtyard with an undulated coastal landscape reminiscent of sand dunes, but also to alleviate the complex challenge of concealing above ground car-parking. The folding of the ground plane continues around the building to form a protected, sunken café seating area. Full height glazing along the ground level retail and café spaces will help create a lively promenade opposite the marina facilities.
The façade is treated as a framing device for each apartment, focusing views while providing deep and generous outdoor living spaces. Building entries are highlighted through enhanced scale and double-height glazing. Shifting angles of the framing walls provide a rhythmic freedom to the façade combining with a palette of hardy materials to respond to the coastal setting and present a refreshing outlook. The almost completely white exterior, contrasting with grey window frames and ground-level screening is complemented by the green and grey colours of the extensive natural vegetation.
The design for each of the 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom apartments offers a greater diversity than is typically seen in urban developments – a direct response to the diversity and lifestyle qualities of this new coastal locality. Each apartment is given optimum glazed frontage against a crisp internal layout.
Following the success of the Lighthouse, we have been engaged to develop a design proposal for the new Marina – the primary waterfront attraction.
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Armadale ResidenceContemporary, modernist, classic
This private client approached us to design a family home that would recall the planar forms of modernist Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra. We took a contemporary approach to the brief, and the finished residence achieves finely detailed cantilevered planes contrasted with solid, grounding elements.
Located in the inner Melbourne suburb of Armadale, the design creates a unique relationship with the street, replacing the ubiquitous suburban garage with a refined cantilevered carport roof. An expansive forecourt, softened by edge landscaping, reads as an additional outdoor living space.
Open, flowing internal family rooms create a strong connection between indoor and outdoor living. Multi-layered spaces created by raised platforms and contrasting hard and soft surfaces, create visual articulation and spatial definition.
In contrast with this permeability, the bedroom suites maintain a high level of privacy, with the master bedroom at ground level and children’s and guests’ rooms above, each with additional living areas.
Using a combination of luxurious materials such as travertine, edged steel detailing and timber cladding, along with extensive glazing that echoes Neutra’s love of expansive glass walls, the design achieves a refined residential scale and quality.
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Paramatta TowerCompeting to create an icon
In 2012, Parramatta City Council held a competition for the design of a super-tall tower to form the centrepiece of its redevelopment of the Parramatta CBD, Parramatta Square. The challenge was not only to locate the tower in the heart of Parramatta as an iconic landmark, but also to design a high-rise building that incorporated environmentally and socially sustainable measures. Our entry was for a 75-storey mixed-use, multi-unit residential tower with a focus on community. In large-scale residential high-rise environments, communal meeting spaces are much needed – but often lacking. Designed well, these spaces encourage community cohesion and provide places for people to meet, converse and play in safe surroundings, or just sit in the sun. Accordingly, our proposal included community gardens, located on every third level, each servicing the residents of 24 dwellings.
Each north-facing garden space was designed as a large court to enable recreation and social engagement, and to visually connect the tall façade of the building with the public spaces at the foot of the tower. They also doubled as sustainable bio-filters, enabling the tower to operate comfortably without traditional mechanical air conditioning. The inner-city air would be cooled, cleaned and circulated throughout, so that the difficult wind conditions encountered in high-rise buildings would not prevent these apartments from gaining fresh air.
A veranda-like feature at the ground floor, facing north, created a public promenade that would be shaded in summer and open to the sun in winter. Street-level activity was generated by retail spaces, integrating and scaling the street-facing spaces of the tower with the overall concept of Parramatta Square as a new retail, social and liveable precinct.
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Errington Master PlanSt Albans, Victoria
Brimbank City Council’s St Albans Connect program is a regeneration project focused on community engagement, ownership and pride in this north-western Melbourne suburb. As part of the program, SJB Urban prepared a Structure Plan for the Activity Centre that would regenerate central St Albans, and which was adopted by Brimbank Council and now informs current design implementation. In response to one of the key recommendations from the Structure Plan, we delivered a Precinct Plan and illustrative landscape Master Plan for the Errington Recreation Reserve Precinct.
Working collaboratively with Council officers through a series of workshops and reviews, we developed a new urban structure for the Reserve which will create a more integrated, legible, safe and accessible recreation facility, accommodating a broad range of activities and user groups.
The Master Plan incorporates an enhanced sports oval, new community centre and sports pavilion buildings, relocated tennis courts, an all-abilities playground, youth-focused recreation space, cycle routes and a pedestrian-focused campus ‘spine’ which accesses and connects the various facilities and spaces along its length.
Following its completion, Council enthusiastically adopted this Master Plan, and this ambitious $18m project is set to establish Errington Recreation Reserve as the showpiece of the revitalised neighbourhood.
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belowIndicative layouts of buildings 01–03
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rightPerspective sketch new community centre and reserve
below rightPerspective sketch new community centre and forecourt
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We are highly recognised within the industry for our commitment to quality commercial architecture. We have completed a large number of commercial office buildings in Melbourne since our foray into this typology in the 1980s, including a number of significant sites along St Kilda Road and within the Southbank precinct.
In the last issue we revisited one of these early mixed-use projects, 55 Southbank Boulevard (1989). This seven-storey building, situated on a prominent site, established a new presence for Southbank and paved the way for an influx of retail, commercial and residential buildings.
In the late 1970s and early 80s, however, Synman Justin Bialek (as SJB was then known) was an emerging architectural practice and large commercial projects such as this were not yet a part of the repertoire. Early work included some two and three storey commercial projects, but was largely high-end residential.
Nissan House at 210 Albert Road, South Melbourne is regarded by directors Alfred de Bruyne and Michael Bialek as a pivotal project for the practice. Completed in 1983, it led to their development into this typology and scale of work.
“We won the project for Nissan Finance through a limited competition, presenting only a perspective drawing of our proposal – the hero shot. The clients liked our proposal, which met their requirements for a bold, signature building for the finance arm of Nissan in Australia, while also providing commercial viability. At this stage, we’d never designed a building of more than two storeys, let alone one with a basement car park and lifts.
“The site had great potential to achieve high-level views of Albert Park Lake. The approach was to invert the building, increasing the floor area to the upper levels, and tapering in to the ground floor, creating a recessive entry forecourt to invite people in off the street.
“The entry to the building is quite dramatic, with a feature glass ceiling angled over the foyer. This double height space draws you in and under the cantilevered office floors above, creating a sheltered entry.
“We wanted to provide a landmark address for the corner site through a distinctive form, created by angled walls and bold geometric shapes. The cantilevered corners are further defined through the use of cement soffit coffers. The simplicity of finishes including off-form concrete with epoxy resin, grey coloured aggregate and grey tinted reflective glass, reinforced the overall sculptural quality of the building as object.
“This project provided many opportunities for us to experiment with, and research building technologies. Our hero-shot perspective indicated expansive frameless glass and our client loved this, so we spent a lot of time working with the window manufacturers to develop the details we needed to achieve this look. Frameless glass is commonplace now, but in the early 80s this was really new technology. We also worked with the manufacturer to achieve glass fins as the structural elements – this was ground breaking!
“The project won us our first Royal Australian Institute of Architects (Victorian Chapter) award in 1983, with the jury citing the sense of concern, consistency, and strength of concept on the part of the architect, which lifts it well above the norm of speculative office buildings of a similar scale.
“It’s hard to imagine documenting a building this size by hand with just a team of two, but that was how we did it then. This extraordinary experience for us, as young emerging architects, successfully led to a number of commercial projects in the area, and the development of our practice profile.”
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