Iron Chef house is the result of a highly successful collaborative relationship between Architect and client.

Located on a leafy, no-through road surrounded by an enduring suite of character bungalows, the new home pays homage to the ghost of the structure that once stood in its place.

Receding in height from the street yet generous in internal scale, a double height void running the length of the home creates a generous connection between levels while framing a view to the incredible red gums to the sites rear.

Much of the homes public interior takes a warm, neutral approach, while pops of colour and pattern, surprise and delight behind hidden doors and within private spaces.

A series of glazed operable walls open the home entirely from front to back, while the external materiality of fluted timber and soft sandy masonry wrap inward creating a seamless connection between inside and out.

SYC is a non-for-profit organisation that relocated their mission facilities to new premises, south of the city. The Foundry provides specialised assistance to disadvantaged, homeless and disengaged youth.

Architects Ink provided a new environment to facilitate services to youth in a welcoming, ‘non-corporate’, fun, accepting and secure fashion.

The building was an empty brick warehouse shell with high level windows and exposed steel trusses. Original items remain exposed yet new connections to the existing structure were minimised emphasising connection to natural light in all areas but not compromising the warehouse volume.

Honest materials rich in texture, durability and colour were selected, creating calm yet engaging spaces for clientele. A display of warmth, simplicity and durability.
Youth were involved in all stages from design to construction including the themed works of well-known young Adelaideartists

The Foundry provides a ‘safe place for immediate connection’ for Youth in a non-traditional environment

A respectful honouring of place, heritage and produce, Restaurant Botanic is reimagined as a naturally warming harbour within which to savour and embellish the senses. While its connection and ingrained sense of nostalgia carry forward, the changing of its custodians sees a matched rebirth of the spatial experience.

A light-touch ensures the existing exterior character, heritage fretwork and detailing are restored and enlivened, while the carving of a new entry experience reinforces a sense of arrival. Inside, the previously traditional restaurant space is opened up to bring guests into the preparation experience, with a Japanese-inspired front row seat to the action. In the centre of the space, around a carefully crafted bar and under arched framed timber details, guests are invited to partake in the finery of creation, while dining. In reimagining the Botanic Garden Restaurant, the space becomes deeply and richly immersive, and balances smells, sights and sounds idyllically.

Our Adelaide Railway Station Entry Concourse project delivers an immersive pedestrian concourse connecting the Adelaide Railway to the Riverbank. It is the first delivered element of ARM’s Festival Plaza Design within the Riverbank Masterplan The station concourse interior was conceived as an organic vaulted arcade, a carved interior space from the rocky escarpment, reminiscent of the Garlick and Jackman Neoclassical interior of the Adelaide Railway Station Hall. The vaults were sculpted organically, but also pushed and pulled to align with an integrated structural column design supporting the SkyCity building above. This allowed the arches to touch down to ground around each column, resulting in a rhythm of intersecting vaults and an immersive experiential collection of volumes.

The design recognises form as function, utilising architecture as sculpture to create a space that transforms a previously forgotten part of the Riverbank, resulting in a new sense of pride in place for Adelaide.

The Australian Space Discovery Centre is as a catalyst project that captures hearts and minds, sparking inspiration for South Australians to participate in careers and pathways in the ever-growing space sector. Within the context of the broader Lot Fourteen site, it was important for this project to reflect the same values and overarching vision for this precinct, creating a place driven by innovation. Designed with a key focus on the visitor experience, the Centre creates an engaging and sensory environment that is sophisticated, technical and interactive. With key program objectives to provide access to careers in space and a working Mission Control, the experience of digital interaction and raw materials are designed to coexist and create the feeling that the visitor is between two worlds.

Sophisticatedly playful and a little ‘grown up’….number 14 is a home, designed to walk-in-step with the busy lives of a young professional couple, their three daughters and one very cheeky pooch! Capturing a lifestyle and asserting itself amongst the traditional housing typology of a leafy Adelaidean streetscape. With classic and timeless materials and finishes, rich spaces come together to create an ‘interior architecture’ that is to be lived and loved throughout its life. …number 14 reveals itself as a striking, bold contemporary house but within, is a warm and inviting home, making day-to-day living easy – this is a place where partners, grandchildren and friends will always feel welcome, both today and in the years to come!

Using consistent design language referencing Aurecon’s ‘DNA’, this creative and sustainable fitout celebrates all that Aurecon Adelaide has to offer.

As a feature of the arrival experience, the innovative cross-timber laminated ‘floating’ stair connects all three tenancy levels. Architecturally, walls are only used where required for privacy or functionality, with large open expanses allowing insight into Aurecon at work. Plants provide a softer screening element where some privacy is required.

Warm, textured timber walls and bulkheads draw staff and visitors towards the central core creative zones. Lighting is used as a wayfinding element, or to anchor collaborative spaces.

With a largely mobile workforce, two floors are dedicated to agile working spaces. Embracing Aurecon’s values, bespoke graphics, found in unsuspecting places, a bench to make paper planes, curved writable wall and calming background of timber and biophilia set against a semi-industrial palette, allowed our designers, to “be playful with serious intent”.

A respectful honouring of place, heritage and produce, Restaurant Botanic is reimagined as a naturally warming harbour within which to savour and embellish the senses. While its connection and ingrained sense of nostalgia carry forward, the changing of its custodians sees a matched rebirth of the spatial experience.

A light-touch ensures the existing exterior character, heritage fretwork and detailing are restored and enlivened, while the carving of a new entry experience reinforces a sense of arrival. Inside, the previously traditional restaurant space is opened up to bring guests into the preparation experience, with a Japanese-inspired front row seat to the action. In the centre of the space, around a carefully crafted bar and under arched framed timber details, guests are invited to partake in the finery of creation, while dining. In reimagining the Botanic Garden Restaurant, the space becomes deeply and richly immersive, and balances smells, sights and sounds idyllically.

The Rose Park House is best described as a project of discovery from commencement to completion. From the street this early 1900’s Queen Anne Villa appears like any other, however beneath the surface lies a series of spaces designed to be unique in their function and expression, yet consistent in their approach, resulting in an Architecture that is completely unexpected.

Transforming a dark and highly ornate home into its light-filled contemporary, Kingswood Residence is endowed a new chapter to its storied past. Opening up and forming framed views between each previously segregated zone, an overhaul of the existing planning sees the reorientation of the experience of the home out toward the surrounding landscape.

A series of new gestures ensure the home is reprogrammed in its entirety. Although restrained and contained to within near the exact previous built outline of the home, the alterations have a compounding affect.

At the heart of the transformations of Kingswood Residence, is an ingrained sense of flow and connection. Through pushing out toward the west and aligning the functions of the home, the rich character details of the home continue to be celebrated amongst the more contemporary insertions. By making sense of the planning, the family home now reflects how its occupants live.

The New Performing Arts Centre at the Hamilton Secondary College includes a full dome planetarium along with a 150 seat auditorium, general learning areas and rehearsal rooms, and canteen. A new plaza space provides a link to other school buildings and offers outdoor learning and socialization opportunities amongst a beautiful green landscape.

The Performing Arts Centre’s sculptural aesthetic makes it an exciting addition amongst the traditional educational buildings, while providing a visual marker from Marion Road.

The planetarium represents the importance of space research and the government’s commitment to developing expertise in SA and is a valuable addition to the schools existing Space Program, which is open to students across the state. The auditorium provides high quality theater facilities allowing the school to present professional performances. The quality of the build itself is equal to the unique nature of the facility, and the College is delighted with the end result.

This two storey residence designed for a young family, is located in the chic inner Adelaide suburb of Norwood.

Being located in the heart of a Historic Conservation Zone, meant that strict planning regulations were required to be satisfied. The form and materials used, respectfully take cues from the neighbouring buildings, even though the resulting design is uncompromisingly contemporary.

From the street, the house takes on the appearance of a single storey building, as the second storey is discretely tucked into the roof space. Hints of upper floor accommodation are revealed through narrow window openings carefully sliced into the hipped roof.

The bluestone brick used for the ground floor walls and fences was selected for its texture and depth of colour. It’s a timeless material that sits comfortably alongside its historic neighbours, adding warmth and sophistication to the streetscape.

Our clients’ sought private and gathering spaces with a strong connection to outdoors. Centred around an existing tree, Jacaranda House is a beautifully nuanced family home. The interiors reveal the building, and whisper rather than shout, allowing layered experiences to unfold.

The interior philosophy centres around simplicity, material selection and appreciating the effects of light, volume and landscape on the living experience. The same materials are used inside and out, with blocks of joinery inserted into the spaces. Simple forms disguise intricate workings and problem solving.

The kitchen stone, chosen for its grey variegated tones, is warmed by timber joinery, and lifted by crisp white detailing, that also brings out the warmth of the sundrenched wall of bricks. Touches of terrazzo in emerald green and soft blush are dropped into the spaces.

Jacaranda House is a home to be enjoyed by family and friends alike.

The relocation of Soi38 to Pirie Street provided an ideal opportunity to present an adventurous menu of regional Thai dishes in a more sophisticated setting. The design of the restaurant centres around the patron’s sensory experience, a space that celebrates the theatre of Thai cooking.

The clients including head chef Terry Intarakhamhaeng clearly articulated a wish to present a refined space which also referenced their history. Terry’s Buddhist monk past formed a guiding reference point for the concept. The sheer linen curtains arranged loosely are suggestive of temple prayer flags while the profiled ceiling is reminiscent of a temple. Plush and textured fabrics paired with sheer drapery evoke an ethereal beauty.

The Flinders Biodiversity Facility is a futuristic container housing fish and lizards for conservation, educational and research purposes, located adjacent Biology Road in the South Ridge precinct of the Flinders University campus. The externals of the Facility are deliberately container-like, with the main section enclosed in earthy tones, to ground the facility in its landscaped location. Interface areas, including entries and delivery portals have the outer surface of the building accentuated in vibrant highlight colours, referencing the vibrant highlight colours of the fish and lizards within the Facility. Inside, the use of vibrant highlight colours continues, indicating entries and movement, set within a background of darkened walls and ceilings to develop a theatrical appreciation of the Facility, akin to a fish being under water or a lizard underground. Brightly coloured skylights litter the ceiling of the central corridor like flotsam and jetsam floating on the surface of the water above.

Cooking over fire is a ritual, and one of the most human things you can do. It is a raw and authentic method of cooking. Fire allows chefs to exploit the natural characteristics of an ingredient.

Arkhé is a bar and dining room that responds to the ritual of cooking over fire through the ephemeral nature of time and decay with an acknowledgment of the beauty in everyday life. Time-worn objects and natural materials are the key to attaining balance.

Inspiration is taken from the colours and textures of nature, imperfections are celebrated. There is a respect for the authenticity of objects and materials, a frayed fabric, worn ceramics, knots in wood and the wrinkles in the linen are celebrated.

Fugazzi is an Italo-New York inspired bar and dining room that blurs the line between today and yesterday. It’s that moment of deja vu that begs the question, have I been here before?

An overnight institution where velvet, leather, marble, inlaid geometric scraps and custom joinery shelves are layered to create a decadent and luxurious atmosphere designed to invoke a sense of nostalgia.

A romantic, textural representation of the past, that simultaneously manages to remain firmly rooted in the contemporary. Is its bold character a physical manifestation of the Italians’ age-old gift of making art out of life, or is it just Fugazzi?