Sarah Foley Architect in Woolloongabba | Architectural designer

Sarah Foley Architect

Locality: Woolloongabba

Phone: +61 404 355 207

Address: 2B Hubert Street, Woolloongabba Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.foley.archi

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25.01.2022 Back at the Alma Mater doing critiques.

24.01.2022 Professional photos to do this Bardon renovation justice. Light bright spaces and some generous feeling bathrooms in a fairly tight space. Simple finishes that should age well. Builder: Petro Builders. Petro Builders... Photographer: Scott Patterson www.instagram.com/scottpattphoto/ See more

21.01.2022 Aha. The raked ceilings and high windows are just so satisfying! This is the gallery/library evolving. Kenmore. Builder: DJD Constructions.

20.01.2022 Progress photos! Undulating ceiling and framing is coming along.

19.01.2022 Thanks to my lovely client, Tara for the beautiful flowers at the end of her renovation. Great to see the stunning results!

18.01.2022 My impromptu shots of a recently finished renovation under an existing house on a relatively steep site and access issues, where the clients are extremely happy with the design, price, timing, quality and builder! That’s the result everyone wants! We were working with the existing column layout.....like playing chess to get a good layout without undoing all of the existing structure.

18.01.2022 This also happened today....cabinetry! Everyone loves a new kitchen. This one is the whitest of whites. Streamlined. There will be detail in the lighting, upholstery and furnishings but this kitchen is about minimalism. (well, when the splashbacks and tops go in.) Cabinets by Urban Kitchens

18.01.2022 Photo from DJD Constructions of a job coming together! Love clerestory ceilings in this library.

18.01.2022 Congratulations to my clever clients who have just completed this substantial renovation at Ashgrove. Builder is James Brothers Constructions. Cabinets by Urban Kitchens. Full set of images on my website: www.foley.archi

17.01.2022 Love a good joinery check-measure. This subcontractor is tracing the horn of the double-hung window so it matches others in the house. Laser levels get accurate measurements of the openings where sashes are to be replaced. Thorough! (I like thoroughness)

15.01.2022 I thought the apartment (project mentioned below) was bereft of typical 1950s detail, but a section of tiling was revealed today when some infill brickwork came out. ......back to the drawing board so we can incorporate it into the cabinetry. Odd things excite architects! #remnant.

15.01.2022 This is mid-surgery....architecture style. This is the retro apartment, week two. Demo is done. Plumbing and Electrical rough in is done. Air con veins run neatly in the walls. There are conduits for wall mounted tv and chased in cables so we don’t have any exposed services. The skeletal framing is always interesting to me and preplanning is everything. Builder: Samadhi Builds

15.01.2022 Progress at this site! My client is reorganising his fabulous library and artwork collection into the new section, so stage two, the main house can be reworked.... Really pleased with the duck-egg blue bookcase backs and blackbutt floors. Will look stunning when library ladder goes in and all finished off. Beautiful artworks to accommodate. See more

14.01.2022 Shared Office Space Available in Woolloongabba from for a trusted Professional. Share with established Architect. $215/week. 50m2 approx. Includes use of kitche...nette, amenities, wifi, power and opportunity for signage. Easy street parking. Central location and on bus line. PM, call or email for address to inspect. [email protected] 0404355207

13.01.2022 These clever clients have transformed their home by relocating the rooms that blocked access to their backyard. Reorganising the house gives it a whole new outlook and relationship to the outside. Nice work!

13.01.2022 Was in the gym for two hours yesterday...longest I’ve been in gym for ten years! No activewear though. This Greenslopes one, FD2,is having Physiodynamics physiotherapist rooms added. Need a boot camp in gym equipt knowledge.

12.01.2022 This is an interesting project. You’d think it was a heritage listed property but it was actually lifted in the 1980s and renovated from bits and pieces salvaged from demolished heritage homes and banks and even convict hewn sandstone. It is getting refined and lightened up for it’s next century of life. Builder: Jamieson Hay

11.01.2022 Update on the gym project: Has been replanned to accommodate three new Physio rooms. A quick 3d model helped the clients visualise the spatial layout and working closely with their knowledge of the equipment meant smart placement of their existing machines with only three pieces having to be removed.

11.01.2022 This Grand old dame (circa 1890) is having her corsets tightened to rationalise old renovations and add new bathrooms and kitchen.

10.01.2022 I am a UQ Architecture (Hons 1) graduate (1999) and have worked in Sydney, Brisbane and London. Growing up with a father as Jeweller, Media and Art teacher and mother who Nursed and raised four children I developed a compulsive need to create and experiment. The childhood home was a constant cacophony of instruments and patina of paint, inks and paper. I am dedicated to continued development, innovation and research. This is reflected in involvement in University History a...nd Design Tutoring, in contributing to Architectural publications and in private practice. I have been principal of Bosanquet Foley Architects, a dynamic architecture practice incorporating art & architecture, for 15 years since 2004 and now practice as Sarah Foley Architect. My work in remote and regional areas in Residential and Commercial scale is balanced with child-wrangling and artistic pursuits. Professionally, I was selected as a Development Tribunal Referee this year. I have been an assessor for BOAQ Registration exams every 6 months since 2009. I have been on the AACA National Program of Assessment (NPRA) Panel for the past two years as well as assessing Experienced Practicing Architects (EPA) this year I thrive on making interesting spaces.

10.01.2022 Not my project but, Ahhh... the colours. I had to stop!

10.01.2022 This grand project is also progressing well. Painting is underway. Next update will have wallpaper and furnishings!

09.01.2022 Watch this space...In 1958 it was planned to be a Frock shop and Surgery (see plan....which would have been great!) but ended up an apartment with no Typical 1950s Torbreckian elements so now it gets some walls realigned and new cabinetry. #apartmentreno #torbreck

08.01.2022 Today I was back at Stradbroke Island, up the Whale watching tower I designed a decade ago, hatching plans to convert the house from septic to sewered and add a few new fixtures. Nice place for a site visit!

07.01.2022 I often have client’s children in renovation planning meetings. When their iPad threshold has been reached I often give them trace and a task to replan their house. This fellow gave himself the biggest room (obviously), a fish room (the pool); peter rabbits room (the garden); wacapakas room (a fave toy??) and the galah’s tree and guest tree. ... I hope some of these mini-apprentices come through as future architects.

07.01.2022 You've seen my Kitchen Garden project (designed for RPS and Legacy Way) before but I hadn't seen it occupied and we happened to be at the Botanical Gardens for the Japanese festival today and the Kitchen Garden was bursting with sushi making demonstrations! (which we did...yum) So good to see it in use. The gardens are now established too so it has settled in. So...photos.

06.01.2022 Nearly finished!! This stunning home was once unmaintained and in need of some love. It has been transformed into light-filled spaces with enough complexity to... be visually exciting but with a simple palette of finishes to be classic and long-standing. So excited for this gentleman client to move back and enjoy his fabulous art collection in style!! Game changing! Builder: DJD Constructions Engineer: NGS

05.01.2022 I love my job because I get to do all sorts of projects! This was Friday's one. Setting out a Recycling Warehouse on the periphery of Brisbane.

05.01.2022 And then Kenmore site visit in the afternoon with DJD Constructions.

02.01.2022 This wedge of land is 10m long; 5m wide at the widest part tapering to a point, is on a steep site and has a tree right in the middle of the site. It has a retaining wall that needs to be kept that retains the driveway to the main house, as well as a row of trees that also need to be kept for privacy. Perfect place for a tiny-house!! I won't post the plan for privacy reasons but it has a bedroom, amenities, sitting area and kitchen, with big sliding doors opening onto a de...ck that surrounds the tree. The rooms literally wrap around the existing tree. The roof also does the only thing it can do to keep the tree....splay upwards. (rough 3d model attached and will post more photos as it grows) The owner-builder is doing an incredible job of the precise steelwork.