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Brenton Smith, director at Sydney architecture firm Bates Smart, is set to flip his Woollahra apartment after its designer makeover.
<a href="https://bencollierteam.com.au/property/6-313a-edgecliff-road-woollahra/" target="_blank">The apartment</a> in the 1930s Art Deco building, Gainsborough cost Smith $2,325,000 two years ago, following the sale of his 1890s Paddington terrace which fetched exactly the same price.
The Gainsborough apartment purchase ranks as the priciest sale in the Edgecliff Road block. There have been no recent sales in the boutique block of eight.
Smith has installed European oak timber floor throughout the contemporary styled apartment which has over 160 square metres of living space.
It has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a covered balcony with northerly views.
Ben Collier at The Agency is handling the marketing campaign.
Smith became a director at Bates Smart in 2017, having joined the company in 2010 as an associate director.
He has focused on a range of project in commercial office, multi residential and hotel and hospitality.
Smith's latest work was in Double Bay where he was the lead designer of 1788, the luxury $100 million SJD project.
The five level Cross Street block was launched last year, with two sales breaking the Double Bay apartment record.
First the 180 sqm penthouse sold for $10.5 million, presenting over $58,000 per square metre, before the near 300 square metre penthouse, an amalgamation on two apartments, sold for $13.75 million.  
Craig Pontey at Ray White Double Bay has the remaining apartments for sale inconjuncyion with Ray White Projects NSW director Eddie Mansour.
There’s 18 of the 29 apartments remaining for sale with prices for the one bedroom offerings starting at $1.69 million.
The two bedders are prices from $3.5 million and the remaining three bedders from $5.2 million. Early works have commenced with completion expected early 2020.
This article first appeared in The Sunday Telegraph. 
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Architect Brenton Smith looking to flip Woollahra apartment after designer makeover

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The Bulwark is one of Castlecrag's premier addresses and is where some of the finest examples of architecture from the late Bill Lucas are located.Bill Lucas are located.
Lucas built his family home with architect wife Ruth Harvey on the bushland street in 1957.
Dubbed The Glass House, constructed out of steel and glass, the four bedroom home was the first Lucas built on The Bulwark.
It last traded for $560,000 in 1998.
A decade later he would put his name to the two neighbouring homes.
Two years ago one of the homes sold for $2,055,000, and now the home next door is up for sale.
The <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-castlecrag-128323794" target="_blank">four bedroom family home</a> retains its Mid-century modernism, with split levels, white painted ceilings, open treat stairs, slate floors and a fish tank.
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It spans three storeys with six different levels and integrates sandstone boulders that form part of the walls in the lower levels.
Entry to the home below street level is through a semi-tropical landscaped garden, with a curved path leading to a bridge across to the front door. The 740 sqm parcel of native bush leads down to Sailors Bay.
A number of outdoor decks and balconies overlook Castle Haven Reserve.  
Modern House agent Marcus Lloyd-Jones has the listing. 
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In his early days, Lucas designed Moonbah Ski Lodge in Thredbo.
He was a part-time lecturer at the School of Architecture of the UNSW for a decade.
He and Harvey headed up the Paddington Society, which prevented the inner city suburb from comprehensive redevelopment and keep its charm and grandeur.
Worked on an off with Cracknell &amp; Lonergan Architects.
 
 
  
 
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The Bulwark, Castlecrag's Bill Lucas Mid-century modern home listed

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The Crone architectural firm recently completed a striking new Melbourne headquarters for the Australian Nursing &amp; Midwifery Federation (ANMF). 
Located between the CBD and major universities, the 10-storey building at 535 Elizabeth Street is a contemporary addition to Melbourne’s educational precinct, designed to house the member-based organisation that represents nurses, midwives and carers and provides access to industrial, professional and legal representation, education and training facilities. 
Kieran Gleeson, Crone director and Melbourne principal said in a nod to Melbourne’s laneway culture, Crone created an internal ‘street’ through the building to provide a pedestrian thoroughfare between Elizabeth and O’Connell Streets.
The podium facade then wraps around into this internal laneway, continuing the external materiality indoors and blurring the lines between internal and external streetscapes. 
The interior is divided into three distinct areas – conference, education and workplace – with spaces designed to be flexible, changing from social spaces into informal teaching spaces with operable walls and divisible boardrooms.
At the centre of the building is a four-storey void with a dramatic staircase providing a sculptural link from the ground up through to the education levels. 
On ground level, there is a dramatic 400-seat auditorium is highly visible to visitors as they enter the building, featuring faceted timber walls and ceiling that draws the eye towards the central retractable screen and stage while providing a high level of acoustic performance. 
Lisa Fitzpatrick, ANMF (Victorian Branch) secretary, said there were more than 80,000 ANMF members.
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A Tamworth property created by Sydney architects Tanner Kibble Denton has won the World Architecture News Commercial Architecture Award 2017.
The building, Glasshouse at Goonoo Goonoo Station, was honoured in London recently with the project design director John Rose present to receive the award. 
“This is a very proud moment. We have a dynamic young team based in Sydney and this award shows the world what they are capable of," Rose said.
"A juror said that our project was a ‘stand-out’; this is an incredible endorsement amongst such an impressive line-up of international projects."
The Glasshouse is a state of the art restaurant and function centre with a contemporary dining experience with expansive views of the surrounding hills.
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It sits between two original agricultural structures, the 1870s Woolstore and a 1950s Shearing Shed.
The restaurants offers a strong visual connection with the Woolstore, with the rusticity of the sheep ramp and shearing shed. 
“The design responds to the materiality of country- steel, stone and timber," Rose said.
"It complements the solid enclosure that is the Woolstore and the mechanism that is the Shearing Shed.
"The outcome is an elegant and simple building, occupying the space between the historic elements that animates the entire precinct when in use."
Goonoo Goonoo Station was first established in 1841.
Glasshouse also won the Sir Arthur G Stephenson Award at the Australian Institute of Architects NSW.
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A reimagined Alistair Knox-designed home has been listed in Research, some 24 kilometres north east of Melbourne.
The three bedroom, two bathroom <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-research-126979634" target="_blank">Camelot Close home</a> has a $2.3 million to $2.5 million price guidance through Fletchers Real Estate.
"It is one of Alistair Knox's finest designs," agent Chris Chapman said of the transformed design of the old mudbrick master.
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Chapman said it is one of the area's grandest homes.
The home, restored to honour its origins, features soaring high ceilings, windows expanses and a blend of rustic timbers with sleek modern finishes.
A seperate one bedroom studio sits on the 10 hectare estate surrounded by bushlands. There's also a swimming pool and tennis court.
Expressions of interest for the home close December 12.
 
 
 
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Architecture firm HDR Rice Daubney has dropped "Rice Daubney'' from its name, a plan in the works since co-founder John Daubney’s retirement last year.
The firm, which Sunshine Coast hospital, was acquired by US giant HDR in 2013 in a deal that was expected to give healthcare and defence-facility specialist HDR a toehold into the Australian market.
Stephen Auld was announced as the new managing director earlier this year, as part of the leadership transition, after John Daubney stepped down.  
Auld said the name change took the geography out of the equation, reported The Australian Financial Review.
"We're part of a global business. It allows our team to work internationally with a lot more ease. It's a very well-known brand,” he said.
The increasing use of technology has impressed upon the need for firms to have links with larger practices to spread the cost of research and development, Auld was cited as saying by the AFR.
"The access we have now within HDR to things like computational design, data analytics and data-driven design is just unbelievable," he said. "That gives us a competitive advantage and enables us to bring to our clients huge opportunities that we wouldn't have been able to before."
Omaha, Nebraska-based HDR, which also offers engineering services, ranked fifth in the latest WA100 global ranking of architecture firms, with 1072 architect employees, the AFR said. 
It was founded by H.H. Henningson as Henningson Engineering Company in Nebraska in 1917.
The architecture and design world has seen a wave of consolidation, with firms such as PTW and Rice Daubney being bought by larger foreign players. 
In April, design firm Suters was acquired by Bangkok-based DWP and took on the branding and identity of its new south-east Asian parent. 
In February, Sydney and Melbourne-based architecture firm Billard Leece Partnership acquired interior design firm THID. 
Omaha, Nebraska-based HDR, which also offers engineering services, ranked fifth in the latest WA100 global ranking of architecture firms, with 1072 architect employees.  
The local arm of the business that turned 40 last year specialises in health, which last year accounted for about 40 per cent of revenue – which Auld declined to disclose – retail (30 per cent) and defence and education, science and technology design (about 15 per cent each). 
HDR Rice Daubney is currently project architect for the NSW government on the $900 million Westmead Hospital redevelopment project.
Property Observer reported sometime back that HDR Rice Daubney designed the buildings at Royal Shores, a $450 million estate being developed by PAYCE and Sekisui House on a portion of the former Defence Housing Australia (DHA) site at Ermington.
It designed the buildings with pitched sawtooth roofs and white-painted brick facades, drawing on the site’s rich maritime history.  
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Architecture firm HDR drops 'Rice Daubney' from Australian arm's name 

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Jill Garner has been appointed as Victoria's new government architect, set to have a major role in assessing major development and infrastructure projects across Victoria. 
Ms Garner, the associate Victorian Government architect since 2010, replaces Geoffrey London, who stepped down last year after two three-year terms.
Prior to working for the state government, Ms Garner was at an architecture firm she co-founded, <a href="https://garnerdavis.com.au/" target="_blank">Garner Davis Architects</a>.
She has also taught design, architectural history and contemporary theory at Melbourne University and RMIT. 
Garner Davis Architects is a St Kilda based architecture studio, established by Jill Garner and Lindsay Davis in 1990.
"I am also happy to announce today that the Office of the Victorian Government Architect's Design Review Panel will be given a stronger role in the development of our city, and will be charged with independently assessing new significant development applications in the central city," the Planning Minister Richard Wynne said.
"Their assessment will be made publicly available."
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