Coromandel Container

Coromandel Container

Coromandel Peninsula NZ  –  Crosson Clark Carnachan Architects Year built:     2002 Photography:     Patrick Reynolds When is a container not a container? When it uses the concept of the simplicity and security that a container offers, but is custom built. CCCA definitely rank ‘way up there’ in the list of the world’s […]

A 1743 Farmhouse Repurposed

Basel Switzerland  –  Huesler Architekten and Oppenheim Architecture + Design Built Area: Office space:     275m2 (3,000 sq.ft.) Residence:        275m2 (3,000 sq.ft) As cities continue to encroach on farmland, we often lose a lot more than the farming production.  Because early settlers radiated from the towns and cities, it is usually […]

Redfern warehouse conversion

Redfern Warehouse Conversion

Redfern  Australia  –  Baker Kavanagh Architects Year built:     2010 Photography:     Brett Boardman Redfern sits right on the edge of Sydney’s CBD. For most of the 20th century it was the place most Australians did not want to live. It had a fearsome reputation for drug and alcohol fuelled violence. As older houses degraded, […]