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High Style Australia’s favourite building material is on the rise bricks. style with substance high style | 1 this page. The Cullen Hotel. Design by Jackson Clements Burrows. Photography: John Gollings. front cover. College Crescent, Hornsby. Design by Collard Maxwell Architects. Photography: Jacqui Dean. next page. Park at Waterfront Newstead. Design by Mirvac Design. Photography: Alex Chomicz. 2 | high style high style | 3 4 | high style Contents Residential Educational 8 | Silkwood Apartments 30 | University of Notre Dame Gordon NSW School of Health Sciences Fremantle WA 10 | Killara657 Killara NSW 32 | Macquarie University Commerce Building 12| Park at Waterfront North Ryde NSW Newstead QLD 34 | University of Notre Dame 14 | 4-6 Ellis Street Schools of Medicine & Chatswood NSW Nursing 16 | The Gordon Darlinghurst NSW Gordon NSW Commercial 18 | 20 Tryon Road 36 | AM-60 Lindfield NSW Brisbane QLD 20 | Como Teneriffe Retirement Tenerife QLD 38 | Applewood 22 | One Wallace Avenue Doncaster VIC Toorak VIC 40 | Prospect Hill Village 24 | 3 Cecil Street Camberwell VIC Gordon NSW Health care 26 | Le Promenade Joondalup WA 42 | Mornington Centre, Stage 1A, 28 | 10-12 College Crescent Mornington VIC Hornsby NSW Hospitality 44 | Cullen Hotel Prahran VIC 46 | Rydges Campbelltown Hotel Sydney Campbelltown NSW Brickworks Building Products is a GreenSmart Leader, a program sponsored by the Housing Industry Association to promote environmental performance in Australia’s building industry. high style | 5 For Brickworks Building Products ‘Style with Substance’ is much more than a slogan. It’s the reason why our brick brands – Austral Bricks®, Bowral Bricks®, Daniel Robertson® and Nubrik® – have evolved to become bywords in the Australian building materials market. It’s also the reason bricks continue to be a staple building material, not just in conventional detached housing but also in a wide range of commercial, institutional and multi- housing applications. Building design and community preferences have changed in recent decades and bricks have evolved with them. What has changed? Today’s bricks are available in a range of colours, • Try a different format. Slim 50mm-high bricks impart textures and sizes that would be unimaginable to a different texture to a wall, or for maximum effect our grandparents. try the new 300mm wide-aspect bricks. • Looking for a low-cost, low-maintenance And let’s not forget purpose-made commons, substitute to rendering? Try one of the new Burlesque high-gloss bricks, Bowral’s classic dry smooth-faced, monochromatic bricks. pressed units, the Colourbrick wall colouring system ... and so much more. • What about a wall with a metallic finish? There are bricks with a semi-glazed metallic sheen that glows and subtly changes colour with the light. 6 | high style However some things haven’t changed Bricks are still the ultimate low maintenance walling Brickwork allows for design flexibility. Their modular material, a fact that is both well established and format gives designers creative freedom and accepted by the wide community. doesn’t lock them into a specific architectural style. Bricks can be a valuable component in a To quote Brisbane architects Richards & Spence: sustainable, low-energy design. Their thermal mass “Brick transcends notions of style and culture and is one of the pillars of passive design. will survive our generation, leaving a legacy of inherent beauty and strength for the future.” Brickwork is a familiar technology to all developers, designers, builders and trades. There’s nothing We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. proprietary or experimental about bricks. high style | 7 Quick Facts Location: 1 Mount William Street, Gordon NSW Function: 32 apartments over five levels Owner/developer: Mount William Apartments Architect: Futurespace Structural engineer: ABVD Design Builder: Buildform Constructions Bricklayer: Titan Constructions Featured Products Bowral Bricks® Gertrudis Brown Austral Bricks® Mighty Bricks® GP119 Austral Bricks® GP119 Clay Commons Austral Masonry® Sydney Blend split face blocks 8 | high style Silkwood Apartments Building requires a blend of skills in design, engineering, scheduling, economics and construction. Increasingly, many developers would add “diplomacy” to that list, as they negotiate the potential minefield of neighbourhood politics. Silkwood Apartments is located in the leafy suburb of Gordon on Sydney’s Upper North Shore. As a specialist apartment builder, Buildform was confident it could meet its client’s usual expectations despite a tight budget and time frame and difficult access. The unknown was the reaction of local residents to the inevitable inconvenience. “We decided to engage in a thorough local community consultation process whereby the locals were encouraged to attend an informal ‘get-together’ to discuss the various issues,” says Tony Jabbour, Buildform’s construction manager. The project comprises 32 apartments, with an equal mix of two and three bedrooms over the five levels. The building occupies 1200 square metres set to the back of the 1700 square metre block, with an underground car park accessed from the lower end of the site. As is common practice in Sydney, the building is constructed in cavity brickwork. The dominant facade finish is in Bowral Bricks Gertrudis Brown dry-pressed bricks, complemented by Austral Masonry Sydney Blend split face blocks from the GB Masonry® Heritage® series. These masonry units were also used in the extensive retaining walls that help tame the site’s complex slope. “These provided an excellent contrast to the face brickwork,” Jabbour tells us. The inner leaf is constructed with Austral Bricks GP119 commons bricks and Mighty Bricks GP119, both one-and-a-half high units. Austral’s purpose-made commons are specifically designed for high strength and economy. The face brickwork is simply detailed with neatly formed sills and a recessed course marking each floor level. “A small bricklaying crew was allocated to this project,” says Jabbour, “and briefed on the facade details and the overall quality that was expected. They rose to the challenge and performed exceptionally well.” The Gertrudis Brown bricks, a firm Sydney architectural favourite, were chosen for their finely textured surface finish, crisp edges and rich colours. Their low maintenance requirements will also be appreciated for decades to come. As well as winning the hearts and minds of local residents, Silkwood Apartments won the Best Home Units up to $300,000 category in the Master Builders Association awards, was a finalist in the ‘Apartment Project of the year – up to 10 Storeys’ in the HIA Awards, and secured the ‘Excellence in Bricks and Blocks’ award from the Masonry Contractors Association. Photography: Steve Back high style | 9 Killara657 Quick Facts There has been a However by the turn of our century, the owner was faced with the dilemma of not Location: 657 Pacific Highway Greengate Hotel in the having adequate parking on the hotel’s (corner Bruce Avenue), Killara NSW grounds but not wanting to use expensive Sydney suburb of Killara adjoining land for this sole use. Function: 52 apartments since 1832. Car parking was Owner: Strata titled The solution came when the Upper North Shore was rezoned to allow unit Architect: Thiessen Architects not a problem back then, development and a site-specific Local nor in the early 1940s when Environment Plan was granted “to facilitate Featured Products basement car parking for the exclusive use ® the current hotel was built Bowral Bricks Shorthorn Mix of the Greengate Hotel.” Austral Bricks® Clay Commons, on the same site. The result is Killara657, a three-building GP162, GP76, Through Wall 119 complex housing 52 apartments. The two main buildings are underpinned by two levels of parking, the upper level for hotel patrons, the lower level for residents. 10 | high style The Greengate’s owner is proud of the hotel’s standard,” said a representative of the Only six of the 52 apartments are owner- heritage-listed facade and wanted a developer. To the rear is a further three-storey occupied. There are just four three-bedroom residential development that would building housing twelve apartments. apartments, the balance being almost complement this local landmark. The two evenly divided between one- and two- Like most such buildings in the Harbor city, main buildings – linked but with separate bedroom units. Killara657 is constructed in cavity brickwork. porticoed entrances –accommodate 40 Bowral Bricks Shorthorn Mix dry-pressed clay This approach to a commercial-residential apartments over five levels. The facade bricks were chosen as the closest match to development is unique and has been a design takes it cues from the adjacent hotel the hotel’s brickwork. Completing the winner for both local amenity and housing and an adjacent heritage listed house. brickwork is over quarter of a million choice. But it’s more than that. “We wanted The most striking element is a freestanding purpose-made commons bricks. As well as Killara657 to be a landmark building next to loggia linking the two imposing porticos, its the proven benefits of high thermal mass, a landmark hotel,” says the developer’s flat arches picking up the hotel’s semi- cavity brickwork has excellent acoustic and representative. “And a lot of people have circular arches. “We didn’t need the two fire-resistance properties. Buyers also said that it’s the best looking building on large entrance porticos but they were built to appreciate its solidity. the North Shore.” demonstrate and maintain Killara657’s high Photography: Jacqui Dean. high style | 11 Park at Waterfront Newstead As building projects go, Mirvac’s Waterfront, Newstead development is big. Located on 10 hectares site of prime riverfront land just two kilometres from Brisbane’s CBD, the planning, design and construction of the development’s various stages is expected to take 10 to 15 years. The first stage, Pier, overlooks a 250-metre stretch of the Brisbane River and opened in mid-2011. The second stage, Park, the subject of this profile, was opened a year later.

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