Journal

In 2016, Bark director’s Lindy Atkin and Steve Guthrie were appointed by the Australian Institute of Architects as Creative Directors for the second Regional Architecture Conference which was an honour and indeed a privilege. Our chosen theme for exploration was ‘evoke – the art of Architecture’ which sought to celebrate the nature of evocative architecture, […]

Bark Lab’s project for Floating Land 2013 was honoured in the AIA QLD State Architecture Awards in Brisbane last Friday night, winning the ‘Art in Architecture’ Prize for 2014.

Perched on the edge of the remnant rim of the Glass House range, the Glass House Mountains House was designed for expat clients living in Romania. The house is designed to engage with its site’s topography, orientation, views and vegetation.

The owners opted to save the humble 1970’s double-brick wall beach house and renew, to achieve a functional home that suited the space, amenity and style, they required.

The exising fibro and brick beach house was opened up and pared back to reveal the structural essence of the building to create a holiday house that captured ocean and dunal views and enhanced its scale and character.

This subtropical beach house is located on a beautifully vegetated site on a remote Central Queensland beach, nestled into its natural coastal landscape, providing its occupants with an inextricable link to the landscape and the Red Rock headland.

Spoonbill has been conceived and produced with a genuine economy of means, a natural casual elegance, a lightness and an authenticity about place in mind. Spoonbill’s character is natural, understated, permeable, translucent and transparent and made of vertical elements echoing its neighbouring trees.