Our Hatbox Place Housing project in Waterloo has been included in the Good Design for Housing map launched in May 2024.

Developed by Government Architect NSW, the map showcases over 100 examples of well-designed low- and mid-rise housing across NSW. The curated list features “houses that contribute positively to their area and provide inspiration for future housing”.

The Hatbox Place housing forms part of the 40a O’Dea Avenue mixed-use development completed in collaboration with Environa Studios for JQZ developer in 2018.

 

https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/government-architect-nsw/housing-design/good-design-for-housing/housing-map

 

Discover the compelling narrative of the Habilis project on pages 48-49 in the Architecture Bulletin’s Volume 80 / no.2 / 2023-24 edition titled, ’HOUSING FOR ALL: Diversity matters. This edition sheds light on the imperative need for diverse and accessible housing options in our communities, featuring a spectrum of pioneering projects across the state.

In her article, Penny Collins delves into how architecture’s transformative potential can address intricate societal challenges. Habilis, situated in Sydney’s Inner-West, stands as a testament to this ethos, offering an innovative solution to homelessness exacerbated by severe mental illness.
Through succinct yet evocative prose, the Architecture Bulletin paints a vivid picture of how architecture can be wielded as a tool for community-focused interventions. The issue uncovers the intersection of creativity and social responsibility, through a thought-provoking array of projects.

https://www.architecture.com.au/nsw-chapter-alexandra/architecture-bulletin-housing-for-all

Barangaroo House is featured in Davina Jackson’s new publication Australian Architecture: A history, published by Allen & Unwin.

The book is a comprehensive narrative history of building and design styles in Australia, from traditional Aboriginal gunyahs; to the local interpretations of northern hemisphere styles; to the sustainable, climate sensitive and high-tech constructions of the 21st century.

‘Comprehensive, fascinating and inspiring’ – Tim Ross, presenter of ABC TV’s Designing a Legacy

Curved: Bending Architecture, published by Lannoo, is written by art and design historian Agata Toromanoff, who delves into the engineering feats and aesthetic triumphs of designing arching and twisting buildings. Barangaroo House is featured alongside over 60 remarkable buildings that explore the boundaries of form.

The introduction to the book reads: ‘Whether expressed in objects of everyday use or buildings, rounded design seems more communicative, natural and appealing, evoking positive emotions.’

Toromanoff adds: ‘A challenge in the construction process and quite expensive to build, curving architecture has been and will always be a statement in the pursuit of testing limits and envisioning some of the most striking and original structures ever.’

Waterloo Youth Centre has been included in Cameron Bruhn’s survey of the most influential, innovative and exciting Australian architecture of the past 20 years.

MMXX tells the story of architecture in Australia in the first two decades of the 21st century. Shaped by unprecedented prosperity, urbanisation, uncertainty and internationalisation, the past two decades have produced some of the most significant and diverse architecture in this country. The richly illustrated volume published by Thames and Hudson reflects on and evaluates this period, taking the reader on a journey through varying scales and locations – from ambitious city-making projects to finely crafted homes and elegant sheds nestled in the scenic countryside.

Our First House: The Bombala Farmhouse is revisited in an article in houses 131. In the article, Penny and Huw discuss the origins of the project that was designed in London, and completed in 1997.

The Bombala Farmhouse is included in Phaidon’s beautiful book Houses – Extraordinary Living

“In Balmoral House by Collins and Turner a choreographed and artful sequence of layered internal and external spaces is contained within a building form that belies its size.”

Author: Genevieve Lilly

Photography: Katherine Lu

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Waterloo Youth Centre is included in Ana Yudina’s beautiful book Garden City: Supergreen Buildings, Urban Skyscrapers and The New Planted Space, published by Thames and Hudson

Ian and Rosanne Collins’ Mosman house is featured along with our Bombala Farmhouse in this fantastic Phaidon publication edited by Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill of The Modern House.
The projects are featured amongst an international roll-call of unique and innovative residential works from the earliest days of the modern movement through to the present day.

Waterloo Youth Family and Community Centre is one of 7 case study projects identified in the new design policy for the built environment in NSW, launched by Planning NSW and the NSW Government Architect.

Completed in 2012 for City of Sydney, our Weave building at Waterloo in NSW is included in Graeme Brookers new publication for Bloomsbury Publishing, Adaptation. The publication includes a range of innovative international examples of adaptive reuse.

Our director Penny Collins is featured in Jane Jose’s book “Places Women Make” – a book that celebrates women who are shaping the Australian city. The book was launched in December 2015 at Tusculum by Lucy Turnbull. You can buy your copy here.

“This is not about Kevin Rudd. Quite the opposite. It’s about shelter from the storm.

What is architecture? Broadly speaking, I consider this the kind of undergraduate unanswerable that should be well behind you before your first inklings of mortality. Last week, however, two largely unrelated events returned it to my frontal lobe.

One was the NSW Architecture Awards. The other, rain.

Rain! How those nine nights and days felt like 40. Yet my house, bless it, held out to the end, or almost. Only on the very last day of that Old Testament weather did our roof start to leak. Not frogs, I’m grateful for that. Quite likely just vines getting uppity…”

Read the article in full

Australia’s Best Houses

Channel 7, March 2013

Australia by Design

Channel 10, 2018

Living the modern

Deutsche Architektur Zentrum, Berlin 2005

Abundant

Venice Biennale 2008

Home Real:Ideal

Boutwell Draper gallery 2012

Repair

Venice Biennale 2018

Steel

Art Design Architecture Jam Factory 2017-2020

Housing

Birkhauser/Actar

Prefab

Booth Gibbons

Prefab Modern

Harper Collins

Country Interiors

Taschen

Living in a Small Space

Axel Menges

Ultimate House Book

Conran

Homes dot com

NSW Government Architects office

Residenze Unifamiliari

Maggioli Edditore

21st Century House

Lawrence King

100 Houses

Merrell

Minimal Style

Taschen

Living the Modern

Hatje Cantz

Domus

Taschen

Houses of Steel

Living Steel

Prefabrication systems

Birkhauser

Rural Houses

Murdoch Books

Inspire

Australian Institute of Architects

Places Women Make

Wakefield Press

Adaptation

Bloomsbury

Repair

Actar

Ornament is Crime

Phaidon

Garden City

Thames and Hudson

Houses – Extraordinary Living

Phaidon

“Each of the highly refined houses of Collins and Turner Architects pursues the purity of an idea. Maitiú Ward profiles their work for Houses 90.”

Author: Maitiú Ward

Photography: Richard Glover,  Simon Whitbread, Peter Bennetts

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Collins and Turner Architects “turn a Sydney building of apartments into an apartment building” by cladding the block in a single, unifying cloak of perforated, pressed metal screens, in varying shades of gold.

Author: Tone Wheeler

Photography: Ross Honeysett, Michael Wee

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“Near the entrance of this memorable building, several triangular steel panels converge to a central node. The galvanising has dulled to a matte grey and the mesh will soon be covered in native vines, but for now the geometric beauty is on display, showing the angles intersecting at a common point. It’s a subtle visual metaphor for the genesis of the building itself, where various people, coming from different perspectives, have crossed paths at a specific moment to create something truly remarkable…”