Residential

El Ray is one of five beach houses located to the east of the huge and brooding Dungeness, a nuclear power station on England’s Kentish coast. The house started life as a converted railway carriage, and now sits inside a contemporary timber structure.

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.

An innovative coastal refurbishment where the use of timber contributed to an environmentally sustainable development while respecting the site's heritage significance.

The sculptor client has built a small residence with his architect brother on the industrial site of an old sawmill , involving large moving elements and a small building footprint.

Sneeoosh cabin in Washington’s Puget Sound is a light filled structure that invites the surrounding woodland inside, while imposing a minimal footprint on the site.

The client’s awareness that timber can become more beautiful with time and proper maintenance enabled this deceptively simple Colombian country home to be built.

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.

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

A unique environmentally guided design by Patkau Architects nestled in Whistler valley extricates the challenging aspects of cold climate design utilising the inherent flexibility of timber framing.

Presented as a corridor of archways, this ‘journey of time’ creates a series of delayed thresholds, or framed scenes.

A “home among the gum trees”, this 1000 m2 residence sits 140m above a valley and on a 30 to 60 degree slope - the concept was to ‘float’ amongst the trees.

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.