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Kingfisher Bay Resort and Village, Fraser Island, Queensland
The design of the Kingfisher Bay Resort and Village was underpinned by the architects' desire to achieve the most ecologically and environmentally responsible development within the financial constraints. They sought to touch the ground lightly
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Royal Melbourne Exhibition Building
Designed by noted Australian architect, Joseph Reed, and erected in 1880-1, the Royal Melbourne Exhibiton Centre it is a fine early example of the use of timber in the structure and finish of a large classical style building in Australia
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The Brambuk Living Cultural Centre, Halls Gap, Victoria
The design of the building, Brambuk, 'the White Cockatoo', is a fusion of holistic and organic architecture, the forms and elements of the building reflecting many influences from the culture of the local Aboriginal communities and the surrounding landscape.
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Drying shelter, Narangba, Queensland
The building is a simple gabled roof shelter with CCA treated slash pine poles cantilevered out of the ground to support a roof of longitudinal plywood box beams and transverse glue laminated pine trusses
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Pavilion, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hobart, Tasmania
This pavilion, known as Wombat One, was the prototype for a simple yet finely detailed portal frame system, constructed from a set of standardised parts milled largely from standard 100 x 38 framing grade hardwood.
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The World of the Platypus Building, Healesville, Victoria
The World of the Platypus Building, with a form metaphoric of the animal itself, extends the vocabulary of sustainable and organic architecture that Burgess and his team developed for the Brambuk building. Again timber is a key element in the design.
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Uluru Aboriginal Cultural Centre
Located one kilometre to the south of Uluru in central Australia, Uluru-Kata Tjuta Aboriginal Cultural Centre is intended to be a meeting place where the Anangu people of the western desert, the traditional custodians of the national park, can share their stories and traditional laws with visitors to the national park.
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Composite timber and concrete bridge over the Maria River
Composite timber and concrete bridge that has served on one on Australia's busiest roads for over 40 years.
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Beach House, Stradbroke Island, Qld
Integrated into the landscape, this linear and transparent timber beach house allows its external spaces to blend and penetrate its more regular living areas.
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Horicultural Training Centre, Hobart
A bright and airy complex of classrooms and associated facilities for a small educational organisation.
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Dune House and Studio
Recipient of the Kevin Borland Timber in Architecture Award in 1996, the exemplary design, structure, finishes, features and detailing of this house all express the essential aesthetic values and potential of wood.
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University Clubhouse
The brief for the Sunshine Coast University Club required a building that could provide varied functions and could also be expanded in the future. A tight budget + short building program resulted in much of structure being prefabricated and the use of steel being minimised.
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Suber Residence
a small house for Margot and Ken Suber that overlooks the Huon valley in Tasmania's south east. Reference to the Australian vernacular for building "sheds" - flimsy structures, clad in iron, underpins the architectural language of this house.
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Isaacson/Davis Beach House
A private beach house on the Mornington Peninsula that won the RAIA (Victorian Chapter) Architecture
Medal for the design of the best building in the state.
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Marina House
A private residence situated on the coastal area of North Haven , South Australia.
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