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05/09/2026

On a stormy late afternoon, peek at our apartments nearing completion at Little Bay.
In a beautiful landscape setting, calm & controlled, great scale & variety
Thanks Alexander Rink @ Brett Sperling Madeleine Rowe
Urban Property Group

03/09/2026

New kid on the block.
View from our studio across Wentworth Ave to new hotel building by BVN Architecture, which sits beside the masonry warehouse building, reborn as the Ace Hotel by Bates Smart architects.
Big city urban architecture, contrasting material & character, together reinforcing the .

31/08/2026

Vale Peter Mould (1948 - 2026.
You may not have have known of him, but Peter was a champion of the public interest in all its facets.
He was the 22nd NSW Government Architect (2006-12), & continued to advise nationally on public projects & on behalf of public clients up until his death.
Peter will be sorely missed.
Condolences to his family.

29/08/2026

The design of a west-facing facade; our in Newcastle (designed with CKDS Architecture) to face a new park.
Combined use of structural blades, external vertical louvres, balconies & insulated walls to give depth & shade.
Elements combine to give a civic scale facing the park

Thanks Aaron Murray Jonathon K & Bloc
brettboardmanphotography

28/08/2026

Are these Sydney’s tallest double hung timber windows?
designed former Presbyterian Church on cnr of Palmer & Stanley Sts in Darlinghurst is such a fine building, all in sandstone as are its attachments.
Restoration works thankfully in progress after long neglect

24/08/2026

Inside Qtopia Sydney, today proudly housed in former Darlinghurst Police Station that once was at epicentre of brutality & victimisation towards community, now with cells transformed into living artworks.

The old Dock serves as a foyer to an intimate theatrette, which hosted a sweet book launch of a novel about the devastating AIDS era; GS Johnston’s For a Moment Longer, published locally by Broadcast Books

24/08/2026

22/08/2026

One of our earliest projects (with Peter John Cantrill) was the design of a pair of compact houses on a steep south-facing site in Northbridge.
Each just 125m2, on 12 slender steel columns, structural frame erected in 1 day, clad in jarrah, inside sequence of spatial volumes/outlook, leading to roof terraces atop.

Mature angophoras & lush ferns retained




Photos Timothy Williams

21/08/2026

Pair of 1930’s by the talented but largely forgotten architect .

Strong form, good brick detailing, consideration of slope & silhouette.
Nestled off Fairfax Rd overlooking Double Bay.

Ward part of a group of architects active between the wars, prolific designers of apartment buildings.

18/08/2026

Big tree - Little houses - Narrow street

Before the 1960’s Sydney’s inner suburbs were bleak & treeless. Then the there was a huge cultural change, both in street tree planting & inserting eucalypts in the tiny yards, so improving the character & environment of the hot dark places.

This is tiny Seale St in Darlinghurst - so many lessons to learn on how to green the newer hostile suburbs across our cities.