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Ruth Newman Architect is a multi-disciplinary architectural practice with expertise across Residential, Commercial, Retail and Hospitality design. Contact us to help you with your new Duplex, your renovation or your office fitout.

14/10/2026

A school master plan isn't a drawing of the next building. It's the map of how your whole site develops to support how you teach.

And it can change. A plan written for how you taught ten years ago may not match how you teach now.

Review it every few years, and whenever the way you operate shifts.

Read more about it right here: https://vist.ly/5nazc

It's been great to see The Bay Golf come together on site in Kirrawee!We assisted with the design and took the project t...
12/10/2026

It's been great to see The Bay Golf come together on site in Kirrawee!

We assisted with the design and took the project through the Development Application (DA) and the Construction Certificate (CC) approval stages. So exciting to know it's opening soon!

We are looking forward to seeing this fun space up and running

Progress on a mural on Clarence Street today - impressive 4 hours work
08/10/2026

Progress on a mural on Clarence Street today - impressive 4 hours work

08/10/2026

A school building program isn't one decision. It's a sequence of them, made over years, by boards that change and budgets that shift.

The buildings still have to keep up with how the school teaches, stay compliant, and get built around active classrooms.

What decides whether the program works is the thinking done at the beginning. That's the master plan.

Ruth's new blog covers all this and more, read it here: https://vist.ly/5mgsg

World Architecture Day has a special place in our hearts at RNA...Architecture is a complicated profession, it brings so...
05/10/2026

World Architecture Day has a special place in our hearts at RNA...

Architecture is a complicated profession, it brings so much beauty to the world, yet the industry itself and it's environmental impact has a huge potential to take away that beauty.

Everyday we feel incredibly privledged to be in this industry and continue to learn more so we can have a positive lasting effect on the world around us.

Share with us your favourite architectural project in the comments!

29/09/2026

Unauthorised building works in NSW are more common than people admit, and there's a proper path through them.

Bought a house with an extension that was never approved? Inherited a carport nobody has paperwork for? You're not stuck.

It's called a Building Information Certificate. The council assesses the existing work and, if it's sound, issues a certificate that stops them ordering you to demolish or alter it for 7 years.

One catch worth knowing before you lodge anything: a BIC limits council action, it doesn't retrospectively approve the work the way a DA or CDC does. That distinction matters if you're buying, selling or refinancing.

We apply through the NSW Planning Portal, usually with measured plans and reports of what's actually there.

Sorting this out before you commit is Decide work. Do it before contracts, not after.

Save this, or send it to someone mid-purchase who's just found something odd in the contract...

For a full plain-english explanation click the link below and head to the blog
https://vist.ly/5kdeh

The Spring long weekend has Sprung!RNA will be closing at 3pm on Friday and reopening on Tuesday in our usual hoursFrom ...
29/09/2026

The Spring long weekend has Sprung!

RNA will be closing at 3pm on Friday and reopening on Tuesday in our usual hours

From the team, we hope you have a wonderful break! 😎

An Australian Sports Nutrition franchisee needed their new shop fit-out rendered and documented on a very short timeline...
24/09/2026

An Australian Sports Nutrition franchisee needed their new shop fit-out rendered and documented on a very short timeline.

The design had been done to the brand guidelines, but the franchisee needed detailed documentation and renders for the landlord of the shopping centre to provide the necessary approvals.

Landlord approval on a deadline? Send me a message as soon as the lease is signed.

21/09/2026

How to choose an architectural style: start with your block, not the picture you've saved.

Falling for a style is the easy part. Confirming it suits your site, your street and the house you already have is where the real decision sits.

Two real projects from our portfolio:

A weatherboard cottage that could only be extended across the block, because of a stormwater easement and the existing garage. That constraint happened to suit the Hamptons look the owners already loved.

A heritage cottage needed more space, so we renovated the original and added a contemporary pavilion at the rear, linked back by a corridor. The heritage part stayed honest and the new part didn't pretend to be old.

Working out whether a style fits is Decide work. Design is how we make it real. Do it in that order and the later work flows.

I'm the architect you bring in before you commit, not after.

Save this before your next Pinterest session. Read the full piece here: https://vist.ly/5jbqw

18/09/2026

'I want something modern.' That sentence means five different things.

Because modern and contemporary aren't the same. Modern is a set movement. Mid-century lines, flat roofs, big glass, honest materials.

Contemporary just means "of now." Climate-led, site-specific, sustainability built in.

Mix them up and your brief goes one way while your head's picturing the other. That's how you end up with a house that feels wrong and no one can say why.

For the full guide read right here: https://vist.ly/5i2fk
Work out which one's actually you.

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