Features & Finishes

With a loft like a forest of timber framing, the Disneyland House is a modern take on traditional gabled structures.

Jarrah, Spotted Gum, Blackbutt and Victorian Ash play an essential role in the National Portrait Gallery’s expression of Australian identity.

A modern high school in Williamstown, Victoria makes use of timber to good effect as flooring, internal linings, external cladding and exposed structure.

The durability and warmth of timber supports the University of Melbourne’s model, providing a new learning landscape at the Eastern Precinct Student Centre.

In the fast changing inner city suburb of Brunswick East, this Victorian cottage named ‘Ethel’ demonstrates that she can change with the times whilst retaining her personality, warmth and charm.

Providing idyllic views over a pristine lake, the Cabin at Nordehov has a beautiful wooden interior.

Showcasing the typical burnt-cedar cladding, the Barn House extension is a modern building that nonetheless sits comfortably within the traditional structures of the area.

The Deakin University ICBB project has consistent themes of iconic aesthetic, creation of an embracing environment, ecologically sustainable design methods and integration of context.

Like so many designers from the North American West Coast, with its abundant Douglas fir and western red cedar forests, Keith Baker requires no encouragement to use timber and nor, he says, do most of his clients.

Centre piece to a composition of buildings this 2 storey timber framed and clad building sits in a courtyard between to 2 storey precast concrete structures.

The NZGBC’s 5 Green Star rated new office fit-out in Auckland shows that a modest budget is no barrier to sustainability.

As private homes go, they don’t come much more sustainable and energy efficient than the much-awarded Zen Barn in Ottawa, Canada.