Cork House

2023

Residential


Cork House is a new family home within an old timber and brick shell. Materials and shapes capture the surrounding parkland and waterway together with the home’s original construction and era


Architect | Studio Shand
Builder | Horizon
Photo | Traianos Pakioufakis

Buon Gusto Studios

2024

Commercial (in construction)

New creative spaces housed within an iconic inner-city slice of Italy

Riddell

2023

Residential (in documentation)

We wanted to create a family home that borrows warmth from its owners and their existing c.1900 cottage by proposing a timber volume above that’s both conversational and deferential. By opening the front room whilst maintaining its original gable, we have allowed this element to shine and serve as a key visual anchor for the elevation and elements beyond. To the south, a double height setback provides façade articulation and cover, whilst also allowing an original timber arch to be exposed and serve as the entry

Old South

2023

Residential (in documentation)

Known by many as being adjacent to the famed childhood hang Plaster Master, we had a bit of fun injecting warmth and quirk into this new four-bedroom home. Functional habitable rooms are flanked by new private outdoor spaces that capitalise on site width and maximise available sunlight. From the outside, folded red zinc and articulated openings that reference existing details form the heart of our proposal

Nobbs

2023

Residential (in documentation)

Alts + adds to a ten-terrace row in Surry Hills. We love so many of the proposed moves to the original residences that retain and reintroduce heritage features whilst improving amenity – but we’re most excited about the new rear elevation inclusive of a sculptural podium that slides under and in-between four new laneway dwellings. We have designed these around existing landscaping from a sensitive and robust palette of earth and aluminium with parapets that raise and spill foliage to provide character to an overlooked laneway, articulating a new face that gestures to the adjacent parkland

Architect | Studio Shand⁣
Landscape | Nelson Thomas
Heritage | Design 5 Architects
Planner | RUP
Renderer | Fold Studio


Nickson

2023

Mixed development (in design)

Riley Roof

2023

Commercial

An elevated deck atop a converted interwar workshop, Riley Rooftop uses its expansive plate to fold out furnishings and screens to form intimate spaces against the skyline. To the centre, a galvanised column pavilion projects the workshop’s exposed structure and provides shade through a canopy of coated sections threaded through and suspended by perforated plates. To the east and west of the deck, ‘UFO’ planters are wrapped with precast slices that float off aluminium blades to create a round seat and bar. To offset this palette, spaces are saturated with landscaping, softening and colouring built elements to deliver an inner-city oasis

Architect | Studio Shand
Landscape | Black Beetle
Builder | APM Australia
Photo | Traianos Pakioufakis

Evans

2023

Residential

Alterations to a face brick apartment circa 1970. Removing plaster walls and cutting away timber floors revealed original tessellated kitchen tiling, on show here through inset joinery composed of thick acrylic, machined + polished to all faces⁣

Canopy

2022

Structure

Something special. Reverse angle posts float a perforated canopy with cylinders that project through fascias. Laser cut components slot together, with mechanical fixings that elevate and shadow profiles of steel and aluminium

Architect | Studio Shand
Builder | APM Australia
Photo | Alex Johnstone

S’WICH Bondi

2022

Food + Beverage

We approached the brief for a new sandwich bar as a dynamic study in colour and shape through time. Blending brick construction with duotone interiors and custom sculptural furnishings, our design interplays raw and refined elements to present as a casual diner for the future. Bands of brand colour wrap the store, metal blades split prismatic panels and galvanised plates suspend crystalline blocks to create an artful environment that places focus on the produce and product on offer

Architect | Studio Shand
Builder | APM Australia
Photo | Claudia Smith

WINNER BEST CAFE DESIGN – EAT DRINK DESIGN AWARDS 2023