Peta’s House | Mt Eyk

The housing market’s fixation on superficial metrics undermines housing quality, leading to wasted resources and missed opportunities. Peta’s house stands as a refreshing departure from this trend. Peta prioritised good design over resale value, resulting in a bespoke home tailored to her real needs.

The design focuses on site-specific solutions and individual desires, perhaps not surprisingly this appeals to a greater diversity of people, not less. Peta’s two-bedroom house, is energy efficient, compact though generous, has a strong relationship to vegetation, and is simple and minimal in aesthetics and maintenance. It includes a self-contained space that generates income, for Peta personally and for economy via tourism. Short stay that contributes to, not detracts from, community and place.
Peta’s house is 97m² on a 273m² block. Good design makes this possible. By playing outside the rules, Peta has created a home that perfectly suits her needs and brings her financial benefits.

Piara Waters Senior High School – Stage 1 | With Architecture Studio

The state of art, futuristic design of the building aligns seamlessly with the school’s vision of 21st century learning, inclusivity and excellence.

Students and teachers have access to specialist and flexible learning spaces, setting the scene for ‘deep learning’ and the education of the ‘whole child’.

Workspaces for administration, professional and allied professional staff, are customised for ease of purpose, comfort and convenience. A focus on wellbeing is evident in the purposeful built spaces.

Piara Waters Senior High School’s energy efficiency, solar passivity and green footprint proudly support our environment.

One The Esplanade | Hassell

One The Esplanade celebrates the site’s unique cultural significance as a place for gathering and trade, a place for coming together and celebrating.

Working in partnership with Brookfield Properties and cultural partners Soft Earth, Hassell ensured a deep connection to Whadjuk Country by respecting the site’s cultural history, by using local materials, endemic planting and commissioned artworks by First Nations artists creating a lasting legacy that celebrates the past while embracing a shared future.

The 29-storey tower presents a timelessly elegant landmark on the city skyline offering a new destination for Perth. Its sophisticated integration of diverse uses is complemented by a generous public realm that seamlessly connects the city to the waterfront.

The masterful application of a restrained materials palette, detailing, lighting, and high quality of craftsmanship results in One the Esplanade establishing a new benchmark for architectural design in Western Australia.

OneNinety | Donaldson Boshard with Rezen Studio

Representing a paradigm shift for the Perth CBD, 190 St Georges Terrace is a departure from the traditional corporate lobby experience. Offering a boutique, club-like atmosphere this forgotten space has been revitalised through a crafted, contextual approach that has resulted in a unique and commercially successful corporate hospitality offering.

At the heart of the project is the “Living Laneway”, a string of curated experiences extending across the site, integrating the vibrant new lobby, café, wine bar, and lush urban courtyard.

The client and design team embraced a bold strategy by eschewing rigid distinctions between public and private areas, instead opting to invest in universally accessible high-quality amenities. The thoughtful integration of spaces at 190 St Georges Terrace demonstrates a forward-thinking approach that sets the project apart in architectural and experiential terms.

NOMA Residences | Plus Architecture

NOMA is a thoughtfully designed development in Perth’s Mosman Park, with 53 apartments and three retail tenancies across nine stories.

Designed by Plus Architecture, NOMA’s contextual built form establishes a benchmark of design for higher–density living, with retail tenancies and shared amenities. Careful preservation of the area’s historical character is evident through intricate brickwork and retained River Red Gum tree.
Hard–wearing, yet high–end finishes elevate practical layouts, with all apartments boasting ample space, natural light, and cross ventilation delivering delicate density in this garden suburb.

Shared outdoor facilities, such as the rooftop lounge and landscaped gardens, will also foster a sense of community and connection to nature.
Despite going to market during COVID, NOMA sold 94% of apartments, and set a new standard for luxurious, sustainable living.

Lynwood Senior High School Redevelopment | With Architecture Studio

The redevelopment at Lynwood SHS bring new life to the campus, revitalising the school presence when seen from Metcalfe Rd.

The building’s siting features a set of new buildings forming a new perimeter to the campus, together with a landscape intervention opening a thoroughfare through the school as an effective wayfinding device for pedestrians. While the cantilevered ‘crown’ defines the new school frontage, secondary pedestrian access to the school connects with expanded vehicular drop off areas.

The entry forecourt to the performing arts and learning areas is defined with patterned black brick and a large opening to the courtyard, the result being a space animated by natural light that bleeds into the building interiors.

Landscaped areas play an important role by providing new amenity and connecting the school new frontage with the new Sports Hall at the rear of the campus, revitalising existing areas such as the school orchard.

Kiora | KHA

Kiora is part of a masterplan for St Louis Estate that contemplates greater density while increasing retirement living accommodation in the Claremont area.

The massing of the building steps back from the street, sympathetically addressing the adjacent residential scale.

The conservation of the priest’s house is a key organising device for the project, curating the entry to the project and providing a series of social spaces for residents.

At ground level, adjacent to the priest’s house the project incorporates a wellness area for medical appointments, therapy and group exercise.

All apartments are provided with true cross ventilation and generous terraces.

Kiora demonstrates how high quality density can be achieved in a suburban context, satisfying society’s need for more retirement living accommodation within an established suburb.

One of the project’s strengths is the aggregation of residential and communal uses, which provide the opportunity to age gracefully and socially, within a community.

Ioppolo | vittinoAshe

This project questions where the boundaries lie within the field of small residential models close to the city. The architectural proposition considers the Australian housing crisis and seeks to demonstrate a site-responsive, socially integrated alternative as a sustainable way to accommodate a sector of our population in detached dwellings.

This proposal explores a layered approach that, in addition to meeting client requirements, seeks to privilege ecological and cultural repair for the collective within the setting of a private residential lot. The design parameters aim to maximise the amount of permeable ground by stacking the program vertically and hence minimising the building’s footprint. This thinking has its origins in modernism, but the rationale and execution of it have been extended to include local neighbourhood accounts, ensuring we are not only maximising garden area and recharging the aquifer but also weaving social narratives and truth-telling in a non-civic, domestic setting.

John Forrest Secondary College | TRCB

TRCB was commissioned as lead consultant by the Department of Education for the $50 million major rebuild of John Forrest Secondary College (JFSC).
The project, part of a state-wide initiative to upgrade secondary schools, modernised and expanded JFSC’s facilities while preserving its iconic character. Retaining mature trees and courtyard spaces was central to the endeavour, seamlessly blending new structures with the existing landscape. The redevelopment includes a new performing arts centre, cafeteria, gymnasium, and specialist teaching buildings.
Refurbishment and adaptive reuse of existing structures revitalised general teaching rooms, the library, and administrative spaces. Staged completion between 2022 and 2023 culminated in newly established facilities that seamlessly integrated with the campus’s layout.
Notably, the project incorporated three major artworks celebrating local indigenous culture, enhancing the educational experience for the College community. TRCB’s innovative design approach maximised refurbishment, ensuring JFSC’s continued legacy while meeting modern educational needs.

John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School Early Learning Centre | Hames Sharley

The Early Learning Centre (ELC) at John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School (JSRACS) is the first of two new buildings to be delivered in phase one of Hames Sharley’s master plan, increasing the School’s capacity to accommodate new students as they collocate their Beechboro campus with their existing Mirrabooka Campus.

Conceptually, the design echoes the School’s pedagogy to provide a state-of-the-art learning environment beyond its internal walls, setting a precedent for lifelong learning from the very first moment a child attends the School.

The two-storey building utilises the challenging topography of the site to place the learning and play areas level with the main school campus, while inserting a maintenance and storage undercroft below. A nature-based playground capitalises on the sunlit northern aspect of the site, while the interior of each building has a strong connection to the surrounding landscape, creating vibrant spaces that keep young minds engaged and inquisitive.