Design Parramatta
Some recent reflections about why it is better to ‘design’ cities than to ‘plan’ them.
The upgrade of one of the most important streets in Australia, fusing the Griffin’s past with Canberra’s future
Our public interest led international competition winning proposal for Barangaroo
The competition winning proposal that launched Sydney’s ‘Green Games’
A project that converted a former Water Police site at Pyrmont into one of Sydney’s most cherished harbourside parks
Competition winning proposition for an urban project reconnecting with landscape systems
Documenting Sydney’s public room, spaces and civic life
A curved street frontage defining an arc of high-amenity gallery access apartments
A rare opportunity to reunify a divided city centre and link Canberra back to Lake Burley Griffin
Reinventing the boarding house type on a challenging triangular site in Dulwich Hill
A highly articulated series of apartments that embrace the Newcastle Foreshore
An urban project that unites the formal landscape of Anzac parade with the post war suburb of Campbell around a new urban parkland
A sinuous cycling connection that resolves missing links to connect UWS Rydalmere to Parramatta Park
A pair of articulated point towers and a confident urban base that interprets Newcastle’s mining history
New self-contained apartments and support services for the Salvation Army
A rowing club in Iron Cove that offers people of all levels of experience and ability to enjoy the sport of rowing
A new multi-deck carpark configured with a courtyard form to facilitate easy adaptive reuse into the future
Design review panels are a critical vehicle for issues of design quality and design values to be explored during statutory planning processes
Hill Thalis team members participate in competition juries for Design Excellence Processes across Australia and internationally
Hill Thalis team members provide select support to local government agencies to support local planning processes
Hill Thalis takes select commissions to support design excellence and architectural quality through statutory processes
Hill Thalis has prepared a range of preparatory studies and urban investigations to guide the creation of new planning policy creation.
A paper reflecting on Frottage City, to mark Jean-Louis Cohen’s appointment as Penelope Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney 2022
Understanding what people value, use, appreciate and dislike about their homes
Two micro laneway dwellings that make comfortable, protected spaces for urban living.
A highly articulated point tower with a direct expression of primary and secondary building orders
A diverse mix of Seniors dwellings on the edge of remnant Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest
An addition to a 1916 brick warehouse in Surry Hills to accommodate a memorable commercial premises with rooftop mezanine
Bringing an undistinguished three storey 1970s structure back to commercial life in Surry Hills through adaptive reuse
A joyful, sunny, compact laneway dwelling for aging in place
An 800m public waterfront that repairs the Griffin’s geometry and creates generous foreshore access and amenity
Competition entry with JILA for a new civic canopy in the Gate 9 Precinct of UNSW
A veiled extension to the strong architectural form of the Beynon & Hayward warehouse in Petersham
A collaboration on a public space canopy of floating discs in China Town with artist Lindy Lee and JILA
A belvedere and canopy that articulate the point where Harris Street meets the harbour
A 2014 competition winning scheme for urban renewal in a sub tropical setting
A cross section through a bridge and though time revealing Parramatta’s hidden history
An master plan for an eco village on the site of the former Gosford Horticultural Institute
A luminous pair of pavilions that make cycling a visible marker in the parklands
Affordable housing that anticipates urban transformation, whilst sitting comfortably in an existing neighbourhood
A contemporary reworking of the classic harbour rowing club with tapering geometries that anchor the pavilion in the reach of Burns Bay
Our competition entry for the Green Square Library in 2015
A play structure allowing Lemurs and children to mimic and contemplate each other
The adaptive reuse of a former theatre and roller rink into an apartment building with innovative strategies for light and ventilation
A courtyard house tucked into a dramatic coastal headland, holding the horizon
A house that can flexibly reorient itself towards a range of landscape and coastal outlooks
Generous garden apartments bringing an assured urban presence to the streets of St Ives
A project to transform the rear carriageway access of a handsome heritage building in Kent Street into a vibrant city bar
An innovative one-per-floor miniature tower that can accommodate residential or commercial uses
Independent Living units in a series of linked pavilions articulated by gardens and sunlight.
A vertical Seniors Care model with strong sustainability and high amenity in an urban setting
A house designed to hold an exquisite collection of art and artefacts
A new urban quarter with innovative rain garden streets that link every address to generous parklands and the coast beyond
A Master Plan for the City of Sydney and Housing NSW for affordable housing in Glebe and Ultimo
The 2030 Strategy setting the agenda for public projects in Sydney
An incremental project to revitalise the character and operation of the Midway Centre, a beloved local shopping hub
An apartment in the Woollomooloo Finger Wharf dramatically transforming the developer’s standard layout
A wall that turns a neglected triangle of space near Redfern Station into a pocket park and celebrates the traditions of railway masonry engineering
A fruit market inserted into a bustling urban centre
A conservation management plan to guide the creation of a Civic Place in the heart of Parramatta
A contemporary reworking of ‘shop-top’ housing in a vibrant commercial centre in Eastern Sydney
Seniors Housing in detached pavilion forms amongst mature eucalypts and wetland mangroves
The transformation of a 4.8m x 9m substation into a striking urban apartment building
A dramatic courtyard apartment with a rooftop that has the QVB dome as its neighbour
The transformation of a former factory into a light filled home
A pair of timber houses with a distinctive geometry bending around a mature angophora
Evoking the memory of a former gymnasium building, while improving access to a coastal pool
A new suburb with a street pattern that links a ridgetop park with a creekland park and gives every house a park at both ends of the street
Transforming an unloved waterfront into a series of varied and characterful beachside places
The resolution of the edge of an 1840’s subdivision and the creation of a contemporary coastal edge for a town
The transformation of the Olympic Site from a place of intermittent spectacle, to a place for daily life
