Graeme Barr Architects in Lennox Head | Home improvement

Graeme Barr Architects

Locality: Lennox Head

Phone: +61 427 877 973

Address: 4 Stonehenge Place, Lennox Head 2478 Lennox Head, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.graemebarr.com

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23.01.2022 Hugh and Eva Buhrich Award for Residential Architecture Houses (Alterations and Additions) | NSW Architecture Awards 2020 Bismarck House | Andrew Burges Archi...tects | Peter Bennetts Congratulations @andrewburgesarchitects Bismarck House is a richly layered and exquisitely crafted transformation of a semi-detached dwelling. Breaking with the expected sequencing of rooms, the building form pinches to introduce a courtyard space between dining and living areas, inserting greenery and light at the centre of the plan. The house masterfully embraces the opportunity of the corner site to address the side lane along its length. This move offers activated screens to the living spaces and softly planted landscape edges to the beachside suburban backstreet. The chosen materials are raw yet heightened by their combination and treatment. Exposed concrete floors and soffits are balanced with fine frames of galvanised steel and glass. White-washed brickwork to the ground floor living rooms modulates into polished plaster walls for first floor bedrooms and bathrooms, the materiality shifting to reflect departure from the public realm of the house. The first floor is draped with a screen of perforated aluminium pleats. This produces the impression of a floating form above the monolithic ruins of the ground floor, its own rooms being engulfed by an equally considered and textured garden. Bismarck house achieves a completeness in its consideration of the existing building, new addition and garden. Architecture is generously gifted to the street to the same degree it is afforded to its inhabitants; playful, elegant and enduring in its expression. Thank you to jury members Shaun Carter FRAIA, CarterWilliamson (Jury Chair), Grace Mortlock, Other Architects and Jemima Retallack, Retallack Thompson With thanks to our awards partners @lysaght_au @duluxaus @bluescopeaus @builtenvironmentchannel @bondor @brickworksbp @fielderssteel #architecturemedia #plannedcover #NSWAwards2020 #NSWarchitectureawards #architecturensw #architecture #architects #architectureAward #AustralianInstituteofArchitects #designexcellence #kloseby More info link in bio

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17.01.2022 The John S Chappel Award for Residential Architecture - Houses (New) - 2020 SA Architecture Awards Spinifex House by Khab Architects. Congratulations Spinif...ex House is the new kid on the block, an unexpected and well-considered house along a prominent beach-side streetscape in Adelaide’s west. A challenging site enhanced by views through to the beach, this house is a true and thoughtful response to its context. Overshadowed by taller houses, buffeted by sea breeze and scorched by setting sun, the new house rises to all these challenges with an understated response. Spinifex House is an effortless play of materials that are considered, yet simple in detail and finish, expressing both solidity and lightness, refinement and honesty. The result is a restrained, elegant and tasteful revisit of the modern Australian shack aesthetic. Peter Barnes Custom Built Projects - Builder P&G Structures - Structural Engineer #architects #saarchitectureawards2020 #NatAwards20 #australianarchitecture #saarchitecture #saarchitectureawards

08.01.2022 I am very proud of my daughter Elan Barr, who was project architect at M3 Architecture, for the Sybil Centre at Sydney University which just won A Good Design Australia award. Congratulations Elan and M3. https://good-design.org/pr/the-womens-college-sibyl-centre/

07.01.2022 One of the best long term benefits of an architect’s ideas are to future generations, who eventually understand and warm to these concepts and approaches, even if these ideas are not currently understood. (Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia, designed in the later nineteenth century and due for completion soon.)

05.01.2022 Award Enduring Architecture | NSW Architecture Awards 2020 Palm Garden House | Richard Leplastrier| K Loseby Congratulations ... Built between 1974 and 1976, Palm Garden House by architect Richard Leplastrier, invites us to imagine a simpler life lived more in tune with nature. Tucked into a gully on Sydney’s northern beaches, Palm Garden House is a hidden sanctuary designed for a professional client by an architect and educator who has studiously shunned the spotlight over his long and influential career. Behind rammed-earth walls, within the embrace of ancient palms, the house all but dissolves into a sun-dappled landscape. Leplastrier and some shipwright friends built the house. Its two rooms are joined by a central corridor, along which a steel framing system supports the two skins of the house: its timber and canvas linings, and a twin roof of rolled copper. All the essential elements of domesticity are compressed into a rammed-earth wall along the corridor, so the overwhelming experience is of the contemplative garden: the trickle of water, the rustle of leaves, shadows playing on fabric walls. For 45 years it has nourished its owner, who shares it still with the birds, inspects and water dragons that inhabit this cool, meandering oasis. The years have brought not decay, but a lustre to its timbers, and a lichen colony to the retractable canvas roof. All else is thoughtfully preserved. In a post-pandemic world questioning values and ways of life, Palm Garden House is a reminder of our elemental selves, and a touchstone to architecture that is built with nature, not against it. Thank you to jury members: Kathlyn Loseby FRAIA, NSW Chapter President (Jury Chair), Jennifer Preston, Chair Heritage Committee, JPA & D, Susan O’Neill, NSW Land and Environment Court, and Peter Salhani, Sparkkle.space With thanks to our awards partners @lysaght_au @duluxaus @bluescopeaus @builtenvironmentchannel @bondor @brickworksbp @fielderssteel #architecturemedia #plannedcover #NSWAwards2020 #NSWarchitectureawards #architecturensw #architecture #architects #architectureAward #AustralianInstituteofArchitects #designexcellence #kloseby