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A floating stair does more than move you between levels here, it becomes the centrepiece of the room it passes through.D...
16/10/2026

A floating stair does more than move you between levels here, it becomes the centrepiece of the room it passes through.

Dark timber treads sit on a single black steel stringer, with a cable balustrade keeping the structure feeling light against the double height void and skylight above. From the dining table, the stair reads as part of the room rather than a passage cut through it.

In the kitchen, glossy white joinery with simple bar handles wraps a U-shaped layout, with a cylindrical rangehood and integrated appliances kept flush against the cabinetry. Polished concrete floors ground the space without adding pattern or colour.

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A heritage Westpac banking hall on George Street, kept intact while it takes on a fully contemporary use.The marble wall...
14/10/2026

A heritage Westpac banking hall on George Street, kept intact while it takes on a fully contemporary use.

The marble walls, columns and original memorial plaque stay as they were, with new banking counters and signage sitting lightly against them rather than covering them over. Contemporary furniture and a herringbone timber floor read as new, without competing with the ornate ceiling and columns above.

Where the hall opens into an exhibition space, a rotating program of displays and seating gives the room a second life beyond banking hours, using the same restrained material palette throughout.

The result keeps the building's history visible while giving it a working, everyday purpose.

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A childcare centre in Marsden Park, where the play spaces do as much of the teaching as the classrooms.Outside, a sandpi...
12/10/2026

A childcare centre in Marsden Park, where the play spaces do as much of the teaching as the classrooms.

Outside, a sandpit framed with timber and stone gives children a space to dig, build and imagine, with a shade sail stretching the length of the outdoor area so play continues regardless of weather. Turf and timber decking keep the ground soft and easy to maintain.

Inside, colour does the wayfinding. A warm terracotta wall marks the toddler and nursery wing, paired with timber-look flooring and soft furnishings that keep the reception feeling more like a lounge room than an office.

At the street, a covered walkway leads families straight from the car park to the front door.

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An industrial building in Artarmon, reworked into a glazed commercial space that reads as new from the street.The origin...
09/10/2026

An industrial building in Artarmon, reworked into a glazed commercial space that reads as new from the street.

The original had a plain roller door and small punched windows facing the footpath, giving little away. The conversion opens the upper floor to full height glazing behind a panelled facade, carrying light and activity through to dusk.

At street level, the roller door stays, now framed by timber battening and integrated lighting rather than left as the building's main feature.

It reads as a considered response to what was already there, not a rebuild from scratch.

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Some of our best thinking happens a long way from a drawing board.A recent day out in the dunes at Stockton Beach gave t...
07/10/2026

Some of our best thinking happens a long way from a drawing board.

A recent day out in the dunes at Stockton Beach gave the team space to slow down, share a snag off the BBQ and spend time together outside the usual rhythm of the studio. Time in a landscape like this stays with you. It reshapes how you read scale, light and the way a place makes people feel.

Good work is built on shared experience as much as shared drawings.

A kitchen and dining space built around how the family actually gathers, not a fixed idea of how a kitchen should look.A...
02/10/2026

A kitchen and dining space built around how the family actually gathers, not a fixed idea of how a kitchen should look.

A freestanding, two sided fireplace divides the living and dining zones without closing either one off. Floor to ceiling joinery above it keeps storage out of sight and the lines clean.

In the kitchen, a waterfall island and veined stone splashback anchor the workspace, with integrated appliances keeping the cabinetry uninterrupted. Highset windows bring daylight in without giving up privacy from the street.

At the table, floor to ceiling glass opens the dining space to the garden outside, so the room reads as an extension of it rather than separate from it.

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Directors who stay at the table.At rfa, material selections do not get signed off from a distance. Brian and Andrew are ...
30/09/2026

Directors who stay at the table.

At rfa, material selections do not get signed off from a distance. Brian and Andrew are in the room for them, sample in hand, working through the decisions alongside the team who will carry the project through to site.

That has been the way the practice has run for close to three decades. Both directors are registered architects who remain across the detail rather than the summary, which means the person making the call on your project has spent time in it and is fully informed when you call to discuss your project

Experience is only useful if it is close enough to the work to be applied.

Where Lion Deck cafe began.Pitched roof forms, timber battens and a deck opening straight out to the courtyard, worked o...
28/09/2026

Where Lion Deck cafe began.

Pitched roof forms, timber battens and a deck opening straight out to the courtyard, worked out in pen before anything was drawn properly. At this stage the sketch is doing one job: testing whether the idea holds.

Including people in the sketch activates the spaces and provides the visuals for how the space will be used.

Small things we keep around the studio. A faceted black head holding up a stack of paperbacks. A Jenga tower halfway thr...
25/09/2026

Small things we keep around the studio. A faceted black head holding up a stack of paperbacks. A Jenga tower halfway through a game nobody has finished. A vintage Gilbarco fuel pump with a small timber bird observing the studio.

Quirky objects that invite curiosity and inspire creativity based on form, proportion and material.

Every so often someone picks up a Jenga block mid conversation. Those tend to be the useful conversations.

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Kings Cross gym fitout, where the brand holds from the footpath to the showers.Barry's is one of the most recognisable n...
23/09/2026

Kings Cross gym fitout, where the brand holds from the footpath to the showers.

Barry's is one of the most recognisable names in fitness, and the design brief was to make the space feel unmistakably theirs from the first glance. Glossy black tile wraps the shopfront and carries straight through the interior. Backlit signage and neon set the tone at the entry, sitting against original sandstone that grounds the fitout in the building it occupies.

The discipline shows in the back of house. The same tile, the same black finishes and the same lighting language run through the change rooms and showers so that members experience one continuous brand experience from the street front to its functional interior spaces.

That consistency is what makes a space feel considered rather than decorated.

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Crows Nest, NSW
2065

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