Following a destructive fire in 2019, BKA have been engaged by Lake Macquarie Council to revitalise Awaba House to its former glory. Based on community consultation, BKA‘s design retains the historically significant external form and features of the building. Contemporary additions and changes to the internal layout allow for a modern cafe and function space. The […]

Fronting busy Parramatta Road, Haberfield Hotel balances the proud scale typical to hospitality whilst sitting comfortably with its lower scale residential neighbours. With the main entry located along Walker Street, the building’s height reduces as it approaches the adjoining houses. The selected external batten cladding of the hotel echoes the mix of prominent colours in […]

Spread across 8 storeys, this 4-star hotel on O’Riordan Street, Waterloo will house 142 hotel rooms, ground floor reception, vehicular entry, a restaurant, and outdoor dining areas. These features will be contained within a sleek, contemporary building envelope and be complemented by conference and gymnasium facilities as well as internal courtyards with podium landscaping. The […]

The approach is at once artful and lively, considered and efficient; an integrated architectural, structural, landscape and public art proposal. The design of a hotel on Pitt street for the Design Excellence competition, collaborated with Aileen Sage Architects proposes an integrated architectural, structural, landscape and public art that is lively, considered and efficient. The design […]

Overlooking one of Sydney’s busiest streets, this 14-storey hotel development will combine new construction with the adaptive reuse of the heritage-listed former premises of the Sutton Forest Meat Company at 763 George Street. On completion, the hotel will offer 174 guest suites and reflect best practice in architectural, urban, and heritage design. The hotel’s facade […]

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 8-level hotel in Kings Cross, on the fringe of Sydney’s CBD, incorporates 115 rooms, commercial tenancies, a shared dining room with an outdoor terrace, and basement car parking. BKA delivered the commercial fitout in addition to designing a private penthouse with stunning top-floor city and Harbour views.

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 […]