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9 Roslyn Street,
Potts Point
NSW 2011

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View of infinity pool above a cliff looking out to the ocean at a cliff house at Dover Heights Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Hand drawn watercolour concept sketch of university campus for UTS in Ultimo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Watercolour concept sketch of office building in Potts Point Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
View of infinity pool above a cliff looking out to the ocean at cliff house at Dover Heights Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
White painted entry door with frameless glass framing view of ocean in cliff house in Dover Heights Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Curved white painted brick wall with steel framed window framing the view of the ocean in house in Dover Heights Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Dark grey steel and Carrara marble window looking out over cliff in house at Dover Heights Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
White dinner plate with sketch of North Bondi Surf Club Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Collage of sketches of surf life saving club at North Bondi Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
hand drawn concept sketches of commercial tower in Sydney Australia designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Office building with curved tiled walls and dark grey steel windows in Roslyn Street Potts Point Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Central courtyard garden with Birch trees in an office building in Melbourne Victoria designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Viewing platform a surf lifesaving club looking out over the beach at North Bondi designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Curved plaster wall with exposed steel beams and columns in penthouse apartment above industrial warehouse in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Watercolour concept sketch of surf club in North Bondi Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Detail view of circular skylight at surf lifesaving club at North Bondi Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Concept hand drawn sketch of Commonwealth Place Canberra designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Cityline shot of penthouse apartment on top of an old industrial building in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
View of ocean and horizon at cliff house at Dover Heights Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Curved timber walled staircase with circular skylights in cliff house in Dover Heights Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Detail view of white rendered garden wall and timber clad garage door of architect designed family home at Point Piper Sydney
Handmade painted balsawood models of beachfront family house in Tamarama Bondi Beach Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Curved white plastered stairwell with fine steel handrail and windows from house in Bellevue Hill Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
View of curved stone garden stairs with white rendered walls and fine stainless steel handrails at a family house at Bellevue Hill Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Sketch model of Le Corbusier exhibition proposed at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Polished plaster arch framing view of garden at family house in Dover Heights Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Hand drawn watercolour sketch of office building in Potts Point Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
View of infinity pool overlooking ocean and horizon at cliff house in Dover Heights Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Hand drawn watercolour concept sketch of university campus for UTS in Ultimo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Close up view of coloured framed windows at night at university campus at UTS Ultimo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
View of frameless glass window from fern garden in Watsons Bay Sydney
Curved white plastered lightwell in office building in Melbourne Victoria designed by designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Steel and concrete spiral staircase at Beachfront house at Tamarama Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
View of pool and handrail at beachfront house at Tamarama Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Hand drawn concept sketches of retirement village project on the Central Coast NSW designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Closed up view of curved white rendered walls and thin steel balustrade of a university building at UTS Ultimo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Close up view of wall with Timber clad wall with strips of  glass framed in charcoal painted steel at family house at Point Piper Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
Close up view of Omnia Apartment building behind tree in Potts Point Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
View of ocean and horizon through frameless glass at cliff front house at Dover Heights Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects
410 Pitt St

410 Pitt St

Commercial

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Lavender Bay House

Residential

Palm Beach House

Palm Beach House

Residential

Phoenix Central Park

Phoenix

Commercial

Raw sculptural concrete brutalist house on located on the Sydney harbour front in Point Piper designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.

House Taurus

Residential

Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney

Omnia

Residential

Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.

Tamarama House

Residential

House Holman

House Holman

Residential

Droga penthouse apartment above an industrial warehouse conversion in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.

Droga Apartment

Residential

North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club

North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club

Commercial

UTS Thomas St Building

UTS Thomas St Building

Commercial

Roslyn St

Roslyn St

Commercial

Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.

400 Barangaroo Avenue

Commercial

The Garden House

The Garden House

Residential

 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters

Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters

Commercial

Cloud Pull Door Handle

Cloud Pull Door Handle

Products

Indiana, Cottesloe

Indiana, Cottesloe

Commercial

3+2

3+2

Products

Lever Door Handle

Lever Door Handle

Products

Newcastle East End apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney

Newcastle East End

Residential

Kambala School Masterplan and Staff Green Room

Kambala School Masterplan and Staff Green Room

Commercial

Balmain Apartment

Balmain Apartment

Residential

W3 Light

W3 Light

Products

Love Lace Exhibition

Love Lace Exhibition

Commercial

House Sixel Miller

House Sixel Miller

Residential

Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale

Commercial

House Hrdlicka

House Hrdlicka

Residential

Brick Pit Ring

Brick Pit Ring

Commercial

House Villa

House Villa

Residential

Installation Elizabeth Bay House

Installation Elizabeth Bay House

Commercial

House Spry

House Spry

Residential

House Twin Peaks

House Twin Peaks

Residential

Apartments King Street Wharf

Apartments King Street Wharf

Residential

Commonwealth Place

Commonwealth Place

Commercial

Apartment Building Three

Apartment Building Three

Residential

Olympic Amenities Buildings

Olympic Amenities Buildings

Commercial

House Darling Point

House Darling Point

Residential

Tusculum, Royal Australian Institute of Architects

Tusculum, Royal Australian Institute of Architects

Commercial

Wentworth Point Competition

Wentworth Point Competition

Residential

210-220 George Street

210-220 George Street

Commercial

UNSW Gate 9

UNSW Gate 9

Commercial

Green Square Library Competition

Green Square Library Competition

Commercial

The Infinity House

The Infinity House

Residential

Happy Haus

Happy Haus

Residential

Kanwal Village

Kanwal Village

Commercial

Park Street Building

Park Street Building

Commercial

Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

Commercial

410 Pitt St

Commercial

2021

410 Pitt St

An improbably narrow, six meter wide site is envisaged for a 100m tower in the downtown area of Sydney near its central station. 

Our proposal embraces this extraordinary attenuated quality, proposing a ‘column’ tower on a low scale podium. 

The podium references the delicacy and detail of its heritage neighbours, using the language of grand arching brickwork. A three story urban room houses multiple levels of lobby, cafe & lounge, visible through a large scale keyhole window. A walled courtyard garden for shared use overlooks the street. 

The tower simulates the compression and extension of a column, through a continuous abstraction of the elements of a column: base, shaft and capital.
 
The facade begins with compressed horizontal screening, slowly transforming into exaggerated verticals at the top. Horizontals begin wide and flush with the outside frame, slowly thinning and receding at the height of the tower. Each horizontal is at the height of the slab, handrail and door head height. 

The capital is joyfully expressed as a flying balcony and shell curves of a rooftop sundeck, pool and “hammam” spa. The soffit of the curved ceiling  is brightly tiled, visible from both the street below and the city beyond.
 
Each floor houses compact hotel rooms, gathering light from the street, rear court or internal shapely voids. The voids are tiled to reflect light and colour into the rooms. Key hole windows provide a framed vignette of the seamless tiled surface.

Testing the boundaries of construction and design, the ‘pencil’ tower adds both a generous street room and  a heroic skyline to its neighbourhood.

410 Pitt St
410 Pitt St
410 Pitt St
410 Pitt St
410 Pitt St
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Lavender Bay House

Lavender Bay House
410 Pitt St
410 Pitt St
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410 Pitt St

Lavender Bay House

Residential

2020

Lavender Bay House

Recently completed. 

Photography by Andrew Cowen and Tom Ferguson 

Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
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Palm Beach House

Palm Beach House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
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Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House
Lavender Bay House

Palm Beach House

Residential

2020

Palm Beach House

New beach house, recently completed in 2020. 

 

Photography by Anthony Browell and Tom Ferguson

Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
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Phoenix

Phoenix Central Park
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Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House
Palm Beach House

Phoenix

Commercial

2020

Phoenix Central Park

Phoenix Central Park is a gallery and performance space located in Chippendale, in inner-city Sydney.

The vision of remarkable arts philanthropist Judith Neilson, the building is a partnership of architecture and artistic fields. The intention is to have the spaces working together, to have visual arts interwoven with the performing arts. Two architects bring the design together: John Wardle Architects designed the gallery in the east wing and Durbach Block Jaggers designed the performance space. The components are linked centrally by a courtyard and garden.

The performance space is a singular bell-shaped clearing, made by stepped and contoured timber ribs, embedded in a fabric of lobbies and circulation.  

Like an Elizabethan theatre, the action is in the round, seen from many vantage points. A projecting balcony loops into the volume, creating an alternate stage or viewing box. The circulation is direct or via a gracious set of stepped landings, scaled for arresting movement and inviting overview.

The over-scaled gold window allows glimpses and light from the street in an otherwise dark space. The theatre is lined with timber fabricated from digital templates in the factory and assembled on site.  

Above, a meeting space for artists and its companion garden courtyard are modelled in brightness and whiteness, capturing unexpected planting, local vignettes and sky views.

The outer brick surface is a binding element of the overall building, finding a singular expression to contain the diverse interior worlds within. DBJ’s wall cants, curves and steps for a street garden and multi-figured ‘cloud window

The bricks themselves are unusually long and flat, akin to a stacked stone and emphasising the mortar joints. A thin veil of mortar has been washed over the bricks to exaggerate the continuity of surface. This surface is then dimpled, twisted, cut and vaulted around openings where inside and outside worlds meet.

The co-authored project has been guided by open discussion by both architectural firms. The project is perhaps a more compelling proposition for the input and insight of the other. This idea seems to echo the primary intention of Phoenix Central Park: to be an artistic hub where visual and performing arts are in constant dialogue with one another. 

For live and past streams of performances, click here.

Photography by Martin Siegner, Trevor Mein, Kien Van Young, Tom Ferguson and Julia Charles

  • Awards
    9
  • 2020
    Architecture MasterPrize - Cultural Architecture
  • 2020
    Dezeen Cultural Building of the Year
  • 2020
    Dezeen Public Vote Cultural Building of the Year
  • 2020
    AIA Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture (National)
  • 2020
    AIA Emil Sodersten Award for Interior Architecture (National)
  • 2020
    AIA NSW Architecture Medallion
  • 2020
    AIA NSW Sir Arthur G. Stephenson Award for Commercial Architecture
  • 2020
    AIA NSW John Verge Award for Interior Architecture
  • 2020
    Think Brick Horbury Hunt Commercial Award
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
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House Taurus

Raw sculptural concrete brutalist house on located on the Sydney harbour front in Point Piper designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park
Phoenix Central Park

House Taurus

Residential

2020

Raw sculptural concrete brutalist house on located on the Sydney harbour front in Point Piper designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.

House Taurus, 2010-2020.

 

Photography: Brett Boardman, Andrew Cowen, Tom Ferguson and Kien Van-Young.

Raw sculptural concrete brutalist house on located on the Sydney harbour front in Point Piper designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Raw sculptural concrete brutalist building on located on the Sydney harbour front in Point Piper designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
House Taurus
House Taurus
House Taurus
House Taurus
House Taurus
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House Taurus
House Taurus
House Taurus
House Taurus
House Taurus
House Taurus
House Taurus
House Taurus
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House Taurus
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Omnia

Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Raw sculptural concrete brutalist house on located on the Sydney harbour front in Point Piper designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Raw sculptural concrete brutalist house on located on the Sydney harbour front in Point Piper designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Raw sculptural concrete brutalist building on located on the Sydney harbour front in Point Piper designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
House Taurus
House Taurus
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House Taurus
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House Taurus

Omnia

Residential

2018

Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney

The Kings Cross intersection is an iconic place in Sydney, memorable for the bright red, looping coke sign at its apex.


An adaptive re-use of the Crest Hotel, the tower is modelled as a curvaceous hourglass form on a tiled podium, a pale green version of the Coca-Cola sign.
The building’s hourglass shape is formed by adding a shaped edge to the existing slabs, tapering up and down, to maintain surrounding views. The façade system consists of double height elements, emphasising the vertical while creating a woven field across the shapely form.


The building houses 132 apartments. Many of the apartments are dual level and L-shaped in section, allowing city and harbour views and sunlight to the majority of the interiors.  


A communal garden occupies the space between the podium and tower, adding life and landscape to the streets and  grand intersection. 

Photography: Brett Boardman, Anthony Browell and Tom Ferguson

  • Awards
    1
  • 2019
    ACSE Award for Large Building Projects
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
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Tamarama House

Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney
Omnia Potts Point apartments designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney

Tamarama House

Residential

2015

Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.

AIA NSW judge's citation:

"As you walk through the Tamarama House your eye is continually drawn to remarkable details: of animated handrails, folded steel and carved concrete. However, it is the purposeful and sequential manipulation of volumes — from the compressed entry portico to the vast living space, layered cabana and intimate master bedroom — that leaves a lasting impression of delight. This is a timeless and extraordinary piece of architectural craftsmanship where the hand of the architect is ever present. The overlapping geometries of the form and dual garden arrangement of the plan masterfully respond to the particularities of the site. Central to this gesture is the sunken front garden facing the street. Sheltered from wild weather, it acts as both a place of repose and respite, and a balanced juxtaposition to the expanse of ocean adjacent. Views are carefully framed, reflected and enclosed throughout the house, capturing moments to dwell on sky or surf.
Whilst the budget was significant, this was managed with remarkable acumen, the elegant palette of materials conveying at once a sense of casualness and grandeur. Viewed from both the street and the ever—popular coastal walkway, the beautifully sculptural form of Tamarama House is offset by the layered textures of a highly integrated garden that anchors the house within its coastal setting."

 

Photographers: Andrew Cowen, Erieta Attali, Tom Ferguson, John Gollings and Brett Boardman

  • Awards
    2
  • 2017
    AIA NSW Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture (New)
  • 2017
    Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture (National)
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
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House Holman

House Holman
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Sculptural concrete beachfront house located in Tamarama along the Bondi to Coogee walk designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.

House Holman

Residential

2004

House Holman

Sited on the edge of a 70-metre high cliff, the plan of Holman House refers to Picasso's painting The Bather. It contains a complex series of fluid living spaces set within a meandering perimeter that arcs, folds and stretches in response to sun, landscape and views. Living and dining areas cantilever out over the ocean, allowing dramatic views up and down the coast. The lower floor forms a base that is built from rough stone walls like an extension of the cliff below. These walls continue along the cliff edge to form a series of eccentric terraced gardens and a vase-shaped rock pool.

Photographers: Peter Bennetts, Brett Boardman, Anthony Browell, Chris Cole, John Gollings and Reiner Blunck

 

  • Awards
    2
  • Publications
    2
  • 2005
    National Award for Housing
  • 2005
    Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture
  • 2005
    Architecture Now! Houses, Taschen
  • 2007
    Pacific Modern, Rizzoli
House Holman
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Droga Apartment

Droga penthouse apartment above an industrial warehouse conversion in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
House Holman
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House Holman
House Holman

Droga Apartment

Residential

1997

Droga penthouse apartment above an industrial warehouse conversion in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.

5 level warehouse conversion and new 2-storey penthouse. An addition that is both contemporary and contextual.

 

Photographers: John Gollings and Patrick-Bingham Hall

  • Awards
    2
  • 1998
    Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture (NSW)
  • 1998
    Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture
Droga Apartment
Droga Apartment
Droga Apartment
Droga Apartment
Droga penthouse apartment above an industrial warehouse conversion in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Droga penthouse apartment above an industrial warehouse conversion in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Droga penthouse apartment above an industrial warehouse conversion in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Droga penthouse apartment above an industrial warehouse conversion in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
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North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club

North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
Droga penthouse apartment above an industrial warehouse conversion in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Droga Apartment
Droga Apartment
Droga Apartment
Droga Apartment
Droga penthouse apartment above an industrial warehouse conversion in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Droga penthouse apartment above an industrial warehouse conversion in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Droga penthouse apartment above an industrial warehouse conversion in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.
Droga penthouse apartment above an industrial warehouse conversion in Surry Hills Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects.

North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club

Commercial

2013

North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club

In association with Peter Colquhoun.

The North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club (NBSLSC) is located on the prominent, iconic and national heritage site at the northern end of Bondi Beach. Replacing the existing, disconnected and introverted building, the proposal is for an open connected and extroverted building. The new building increases the accommodation of the existing club, while creating a light and apparently smaller building.

Photographers: Anthony Browell, Joshua Davies, John Gollings, Tim Granter, Stefan Heim, Jeannette Lloyd-Jones, Mark Syke, Eugene Tan and Natalie Walsh

  • Awards
    1
  • 2013
    AIA NSW Public Architecture Award
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
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UTS Thomas St Building

UTS Thomas St Building
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club

UTS Thomas St Building

Commercial

2014

UTS Thomas St Building

In association with BVN Architecture.

The soft centre of the Alumni Green, a garden in the city, will transform the image of UTS. 
The sense of this space as a sanctuary, and central gathering space will be consolidated by a cohesive and animated built edge. 
The image of the Science faculty onto the Green is a grove of trees, gently moulded and shaped, its underside a friendly shadow. 
The ‘tree-branching’ façade is fine grained and varied.

 

Photographers: Darren Bradley, Anthony Browell, Peter Bennetts and Julia Charles

  • Awards
    6
  • 2015
    AIA National Award for Educational Architecture
  • 2015
    AIA NSW Educational Architecture William E Kemp Award
  • 2015
    NSW City of Sydney Lord Mayor's Prize
  • 2015
    Sustainability Awards - Public Building and Urban Design Prize
  • 2015
    NSW Environment Green Globe Award for Excellence in Sustainability - Built Environment Sustainability - Commercial Properties
  • 2015
    Gold Sydney Design Awards (Architecture - Mixed Use - Constructed Category)
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
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Roslyn St

Roslyn St
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building
UTS Thomas St Building

Roslyn St

Commercial

2009

Roslyn St

A 4 storey commercial building located in Kings Cross, Sydney. The design includes a ground floor restaurant / bar, and a rooftop garden. The material choice and form are in response to the character of the suburb.

Photographers: Anthony Browell, Peter Bennetts,
Neil Durbach and Julia Charles

  • Awards
    2
  • 2010
    AIA Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture
  • 2010
    AIA NSW Chapter Sir Arthur G Stephenson Award for Commercial Architecture
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
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400 Barangaroo Avenue

Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St
Roslyn St

400 Barangaroo Avenue

Commercial

2016

Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.

400 Barangaroo Road, Barangaroo (‘400’) forms part of the entry sequence to Barangaroo South, Sydney’s new waterfront mixed-use precinct - a hinge - between the city and the harbour.

This complex trapezoidal site inherited minor public functions of the development, such as car park entry and public toilets, a fixed basement structure and significant services risers within and adjacent to the building.

‘400’ and its neighbour, Barangaroo House by Collins and Turner, are linked, smaller scale buildings sited in the round between the existing development of King Street Wharf and the commercial towers of Barangaroo South. Their shared materials palette of timber, planting and concrete combine to enliven this new pedestrian precinct, adding a delicacy of scale in counterpoint to their massive neighbours.

The action of the building is brought to the surface, through the external wrap around stair, cutting through the façade and linking every floor to the ground plane. The stair is engineered to act as a required second fire egress, maximising the use of the floor plates within. Each entry is figured with unique outlooks, levels, signage seats and planters. Cold shelled at the time of completion, ‘400’ now houses a bookshop, café, bar, ferry office and gym.

The stair, a vertical, overgrown promenade ends in a rooftop bar and sheltered garden courtyard. A series of circular roof openings, carved out of the concrete ceiling, act as frames for rooftop planting, and as lenses to view the city above.

The façade is constructed of stacked, angled and offset timber columns, grading from dense at the base to lighter at the top.

In pure elevation the façade appears open, in obtuse views, the timber appears more solid and prominent. The timber boxes are made from accoya, a sustainable softwood that, through a process of non-toxic acetylation (loosely a kind of ‘pickling’), acquires properties of stability and longevity.

To the East the façade curves and cants back, a gentle, embracing gateway to the new Barangaroo South precinct.

Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
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The Garden House

The Garden House
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.
Landmark commercial gateway building and rooftop bar at Barangaroo Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects Sydney for Lend Lease.

The Garden House

Residential

2010

The Garden House

The house hugs the sloping rear boundary, orienting to the northern sun and a new garden with established trees. It has is a simple L-shaped plan, both containing and extending into the stepping garden. An internal garden court is hidden in the depth of the plan, bridging between the floors and inverting the line of inside and outside. The brick facade is given a fabric like quality through its pattern, texture and treatment. The underside of this looping facade tilts and lifts, admitting light and views to the ground floor public rooms, through clerestory glazing.

Photographers: Peter Bennetts, Anthony Browell, Julia Charles, Neil Durbach and Camilla Block

  • Awards
    2
  • Publications
    2
  • 2011
    AIA Architecture Award for Residential Architecture
  • 2010
    Horbury Hunt Winner
  • 2012
    Living in Sydney, Taschen
  • 2011
    New Directions in the Australian House, Pesaro
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
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Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters

Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House
The Garden House

Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters

Commercial

2008

 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters

5000 sq.m Offices, private art gallery, 3000 sq.m carparking, corporate dining room, boardrooms and studios.

Photographers: Peter Bennetts, Brett Boardman and Patrick Bingham-Hall

  • Awards
    2
  • 2009
    AIA Victoria Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award for Commercial Architecture
  • 2009
    RAIA National Award for Commercial Architecture
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
 Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
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Cloud Pull Door Handle

 Cloud Pull Door Handle
Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters
Sussan/Sportsgirl Headquarters