Features & Finishes

Close consultation between the clients and architects led to a beautiful family home.

Jones Sonter Architects selected timber to feature heavily in the Knox Grammar School Great Hall + Aquatic Centre project as it provides versatile to satisfy a range of requirements in the design & functional operation of the building.

Conversion of a farm dairy into one of Britain’s most highly awarded timber houses – using a previously untried solid wood and glass construction technique.

With the complete employment of wood for its structure, exterior skin and interior fittings, this small town museum literally pushes wood to its full potential.

Narrabeen House – an innovative use of timber and timber products creates a private paradise in the suburbs.

Cottage Point House is located in an isolated settlement within Ku-ring-gai National Park on the waterfront of Coal and Candle Creek. The site is oriented east over the shallow bay, facing the weathered horizontal sandstone escarpments.

To what extent can perceptions on a natural setting inspire a residence for city dwellers? This house in the woods addresses such question by shaping a compact refuge from a combination of different materials.

Monash University Student Housing, Clayton

In 2000 a violent storm broke up a ship off the North West coast of the US, a wreck that had been submerged for 80 yrs presenting architects Miller/Hull Partnership of Seattle with the opportunity to use its cargo of Douglas fir in a huge home of 930 m2.

Britain’s top timber design award for 2012 embraced a new 30 m pool, children’s pool, beach area, changing room building and cafe at an exclusive London club

A bridged walkway whose main features are curved timber glulam ribs, geometrically arranged to create a sinuous undulating, unfolding form, by Beca Architects on Auckland’s North Shore.

A school becomes an integrated community hub where the versatile qualities of timber are used throughout to create an award-winning learning environment.