Located in Perth’s Cultural Centre, the WA Museum Boola Bardip provides spaces for exhibitions and events, and new retail and dining opportunities for the former museum, showcasing the State’s natural and cultural collections. Formed with renovated heritage-listed buildings and new volumes, the Museum has been conceived as a framework to share the diverse stories of Western Australia a State characterised by its extraordinary people and places and home to the oldest continuous culture on earth, an increasingly diverse, multicultural population, and a world biodiversity hotspot.
The project site sits on the corner of two quiet suburban streets in the beach-side suburb of South Fremantle. The area is characterised by single storey weatherboard workers’ cottages of the late 19th Century. Many have been restored, typically brought back to their original footprint of 2 rooms and a corridor, lean-to accretions of subsequent decades removed to make way for a new extension, which is a summary also of our project.
The Cottesloe House is a new family residence located close to the very popular Cottesloe Beach in Perth, Western Australia. The site is a long narrow north facing beach side property with excellent views from the upper level. The raised natural features of the site allowed the basement garage to be effectively set at street level allowing for elevated ground floor level and first floor level. The upper level has been lifted to the maximum height permitted under the local planning scheme to take the best advantage of the outstanding panoramic view potential.