BKA have designed 30 open plan multi residential apartments on Peel St Tuncurry. Internalised courtyards provide a pleasant outlook for residents, facilitating the opportunity for casual gathering, with setback terraces providing a buffer between public and private realms. Cross ventilation limits the degree of artificial cooling required in summer with the provision of windows on […]

Perched on a steep north-east-facing site in Sydney’s Lurline Bay, this 4-storey family home combines a relaxed coastal lifestyle with the best of luxury living. It engages with its unique seaside context at all opportunities: living spaces on the upper levels provide panoramic views of the Pacific, while lower levels unfurl into landscaped outdoor leisure […]

196-216 Wyndham Street, Alexandria is a boutique, three-storey development featuring thoughtfully designed apartments oriented towards the west and north, providing captivating views over the nearby Alexandria Park. The facades of the building incorporate a blend of brick and concrete, embodying a modern and durable aesthetic. A distinctive feature of the design is the patterned aluminium […]

Uniting a series of pavilions with stunning Omani-style landscaping and water features, this luxury resort deftly combines elements of traditional Middle Eastern architecture with contemporary style. Generously-sized suites are clustered around a central atrium to enable a vibrant, convivial atmosphere, and all have views of either the ocean or adjacent gold course, while outlying villas […]

This proposed 4-storey office building in inner-city Sydney maximises the site’s potential while meeting the planning controls within the City of Sydney Local Environmental Plan (LEP). Designed to accommodate a future street planned toward its eastern side, the building features a ribbon of active street frontage that enables the incorporation of a cafe into the […]

Located on the state heritage-listed site of a former convent, the Emanuel School Campus – which BKA masterplanned in collaboration with the NSW Heritage Office – responds to contemporary flexible and technology-based pedagogies. Flagship features include the Life Science Building, a state-of-the-art science and technology hub, and the LINC (“Lead. Inspire. Nurture. Create.”) Building, which […]

This 56-place early education centre in Bondi Junction takes a fresh approach to meeting the developmental needs of children aged 5 and under. The design approach was strongly informed by a ‘child’s eye’ perspective, which also guided decisions regarding colour, scale, sill heights, and spatial experience. The resulting multi-level facility – which features an outdoor […]

For this luxury development on the site of Sydney’s last mill, BKA inserted two spacious apartments into the shell of a substantially intact early ecclesiastical Gothic church. Two terrace houses were also built adjacent to the church, with all three volumes responding to the proportion, scale, and rhythm of their late Victorian and early Federation […]

The planning concept is to design an economical simple building with a recurring floor to floor rectilinear efficient layout, with a continuation of columns, stacks, etc throughout the floors – and one which also allows the mix to change with the larger apartments to the top. Externally, a strong and considered facade treatment provides a […]

Conversion of Paddington warehouse to modern, spacious, light-filled home. Originally an industrial building and then converted into office space for architectural and design firms. Responding to the challenges of the existing building fabric, this residential conversion maintains an industrial edge using exposed, concrete, stone and glass.

Offering 400 beds, breakout spaces, and common facilities, this project balances amenity with a sensitive response to its natural surroundings. Low-lying, 3-storey buildings emerge from landscaped courtyards and incorporate either a 5-bedroom apartment or cluster of 5 studios to suit different living arrangements. DIfferentiated by coloured louvres that conceal rooftop services, the buildings are united […]

This fitout for a contemporary Mediterranean restaurant makes inventive adaptive reuse of a former tyre factory in Sydney’s Rushcutters Bay. Designed in collaboration with Italy-based Lazzarini Pickering Architecture, the 150-seat restaurant challenges the boundaries of conventional hospitality design. Timber-framed mobile pods in the general dining area can be moved up and down to radically transform […]