Hiding behind this cool breeze block facade and striking yellow entrance is a comfortable urban home with lots of clever features and lush, landscaped, courtyard gardens. Designed by MAP Architects this inner northern oasis includes a concealed study and bar, Murphy bed and butlers pantry. A fun day’s shooting earlier this year.
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Halcyon Walk 2 & 3 by Housing First Limited and H2o Architects
If you’re a regular here you may have seen 1 Halcyon Walk that I shot back in 2023 for Housing First Limited, with construction of buildings two and three commencing around me. Fast forward to late 2024 and I was back there to shoot those now completed buildings. How wonderful to see it come together with garden views from the apartments and great indoor and outdoor common areas for the lucky seniors that reside there. It’s a lovely little collection of buildings designed by H2o Architects, with their signature yellow throughout and built by Minicon Construction.
Developer: HousingFirst Ltd
Architect: H2o Architects
Builder: Minicon Construction
Shoot assist: Megan Cox
St Kilda Road Office by Amicus
Another great little office by Amicus, this one for cosmetics company Devcos. Warm lights and fluted glass for a glam touch.
Clonard College on InDesign Live
I’m pleased to share another project recently published on InDesign Live, the beautiful Oak Centre at Clonard College by Life Architecture & Urban Design (formerly CHT). See the reel below or click through to full article.
e/S in the media
Thanks to Indesign Media and in particular the ever impressive Jan Henderson, a number of my clients projects have hit the architecture media in the last few months. See below for links and read about these excellent projects:
Thornbury House by Meredith Lee
in Interiors
Here’s something with all the greens from Meredith Lee’s Thornbury House…
Did you know that I fly a drone?
in Drone, Melbourne, Construction
I’ll get to the drone in a minute. First I need to say hi, as it’s been a while. And Happy New Year! I took one of my hiatuses from journaling and social media, as I do from time to time, but I found some space between Christmas and New Year to share some of the work I’ve been doing over the past few months.
I’m starting with this mid construction shoot for Bowden Corp back in Spring. Whilst many may scoff and wonder what could possibly be interesting about mid construction photography, I was in raptures, as a friend of mine would say. Do you know how beautiful the repeating lines and shapes of freshly installed trusses can be? Not to mention the pretty blue colour and striking shadows they cast on a clear, blue sky day!
As well as stills, I put the drone up for some aerial action. I did get the footage that I needed but being Spring I had a couple of very aggressive magpies to contend with! I’ve included a little clip of them below (obviously not a finished product!) along with my pick of the stills - less commercial than Bowden Corp’s purposeful selection and more my artistic interpretation.
So tell me, do you see what I see? Or do you think I’m barking mad? Let me know in the comments below once you’ve had a look...
Fixation 7
I went out looking for a new wall, longer story - I won’t go into that, and found a fixation instead. I’ve explored a lot of Melbourne’s streets and laneways over my years of photography so it’s always a surprise and delight when I come across something new. In this case something old, made new, by Hilton if I recall correctly.
