A development application has been submitted for the construction of the second stage of the Tertiary Education centre at Muswellbrook in the Upper Hunter Valley.

The new building provides flexible laboratory and teaching space on a prominent site on Bridge Street. The project completes a grouping of buildings that includes two heritage items – Loxton House and Weidman Cottage, two of the oldest structures in the historic town.

As part of the works, Loxton House will be adaptively re-used with the conversion of the upper level into an innovation hub – providing flexible workspace for research, with the two buildings linked via a glazed bridge. A defining aspect of the project is the creation of a new covered pubic space that brings together the three structures, and creates an entry portico for the centre – an integral part of a wider plan to unify the education precinct with a series of new …Read more.

Collins and Turner and CO-AP’s competition proposal for the site at 903 Bourke Street envisages a grouping of buildings, characterised by a scaled, fine-grained response to the historic industrial buildings neighbouring at the former Sydney Water site in Waterloo.

Construction works are nearing completion at Bay View Street in Lavender Bay. A rich palette of natural materials gives form to the project which enjoys panoramic views towards North Sydney, Luna Park and the Harbour beyond.

A dusk photograph of Barangaroo House is included in the Sydney retrospective exhibition that celebrates over half a century of work of one of Australia’s most renowned photographers, John Gollings. The exhibition is on show at the Sydney Museum until April 2020.

Collins and Turner are delighted to have been appointed by City of Sydney as architects and lead consultants for the Huntley Street Recreation Centre project in Alexandria. On completion, the project will see the adaptive re-use of a former industrial warehouse into a new state of the art multi-sports facility and commercial office space along with a major new public space.

Our first house: The Bombala Farmhouse is revisited in an article in Houses issue 131. Penny and Huw discuss the origins of the project that was designed in London for a remote Monaro site, and completed in 1997.

A development application has been lodged with Inner West Council for Habilis, an innovative housing project comprising 20 apartments on a former furniture factory site beside the Hawthorne Canal in Summer Hill.

The project includes the adaptive re-use of the existing buildings along with the construction of new structures to create an urban sanctuary focussed around a landscaped central courtyard.

The Carpe Diem Community is an innovative and sustainable collection of premium workspaces and executive suites within ITS Tower 2 at Barangaroo, providing small-scale tenancy communities access to world-class design, technology, activations and building management services.

The project scope includes a vertical village and tenancy fit-outs from levels 30 to 31. Collins and Turner have collaborated with Geyer on the centrepiece of the project – the show stopping ‘Companionway’ staircase and social space that links the levels. The project was constructed by Buildcorp, and has been announced this week as category winner of the 2019 MBA awards for interior fit-outs $15-$20m.

The work of our studio was featured in this month’s Belle Magazine. Thank you to Karen McCartney for the gracious write-up. The photograph of Huw and Penny was taken by Will Horner in our recently completed Point Piper House.

The Bombala Farmhouse is included in Phaidon’s beautiful new book: Houses: Extraordinary living. The book includes 400 of the world’s most innovative and influential architect-designed houses created since the early 20th century.

We are delighted that our Bondi House has been shortlisted in the Houses category of this year’s AIA NSW awards. Read more about this timber veiled, playful family home here.

Collins and Turner are delighted to be have been appointed to help the iconic and celebrated hospitality venue, Cafe Sydney upgrade two of their spectacular restaurant spaces. Concept designs for the Lounge Bar and Private Dining Room are complete, and construction is due to be complete mid-year.

Construction is well underway and due for completion in May for our University of Newcastle project. The project is in collaboration with Geyer and JMD Design, works include an upgrade to the Mathematics Faculty and campus entry. The 75sqm cafe pavilion is a central focus within a series of upgraded landscape spaces adjacent to the faculty. The shell forms will support a lightweight green roof.

We recently entered the competition for the 4-6 Bligh Street Hotel tower, a very enjoyable collaboration with our friends at PTW Architects and March Studio.  Our entry takes inspiration from Sydney’s greatest natural asset – the coastal sandstone cliff forms and natural and man made pools at the cities water edges.

We’re excited to announce that Barangaroo House is a finalist for the second annual Surface Travel Awards in the Hospitality category. The awards celebrate the year’s best spaces and places at the intersection of travel and design.

Barangaroo house received a High Commendation at the 2018 Eat Drink Design Awards hosted in Melbourne this month. A big congratulations to the team at Collins and Turner, H+E Architects and Etic.

Barangaroo House took out the prize for Best Timber Cladding at the Timber Design Awards this month. The 3 storey hospitality venue features 42mm acetylated treated concentric timber dowels which wrap around the building as a façade. Individually steam bent into shape, and charred, creating a unique façade with rich dark appearance and low maintenance needs. Subtle imperfections in the timber lend a softer, warmer nature to the built form, in a precinct primarily dominated by glass and aluminium.

We are very proud to announce that Barangaroo House received a Commercial Architecture Award at this year’s Australian Institute of Architects Awards NSW. Thank you to the jury, the AIA NSW and everyone who helped realise and deliver the project.

Honoured and thrilled to announce that Barangaroo House has won the Inde Design 2018 award in the Social Space category on Friday night. The awards celebrate the best architecture and design projects in the Asia-Pacific region. A sincere thank you to the jurors, our clients and the building team Lend Lease, as well as Solotel Group and all involved in the project. Thank you also GreenhilLi for representing the Collins and Turner team in Singapore. Read more about the event and other winners here.

We are delighted that Barangaroo House has been announced today as the Silver winner in the 2018 Sydney Design Awards, commercial constructed category.