The Carmarthen Place project comprises two apartments and an artist’s studio on a curved L-shaped brown-field site – accessed by a narrow alley to the rear of a terraced row of listed properties on Bermondsey Street
The durability and warmth of timber supports the University of Melbourne’s model, providing a new learning landscape at the Eastern Precinct Student Centre.
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.
For the fashion house Hermes’ 334th store worldwide, but the first on the Left Bank of Paris it chose timber and an elegant 1930s apartment building on Rue de Sevre.
Cabin 2 intimately engages with the landscape but remains camouflaged from the surrounding streets with new fence lines and indigenous planting to expand the feeling of the site beyond its immediate confines.
The chapel’s hard, rectilinear stone and cool glass finishes are relieved and softened by ribbons of big-leaf maple veneer – visible from inside and out.
Expressing the traditional craftsmanship associated with bespoke furniture design, with a modern architectural twist, this new educational structure employs timber in unusual and unexpected ways.
