Bijl Architecture is a full-service architectural practice. We offer concept designs and feasibility studies through to planning applications, construction documentation, interior design, and contract administration.
Our projects are realised through a transparent process built on trust and open conversation. From the very first meeting we listen: we discuss your brief, expectations, scope of works, budget, and other important factors to you. We’ll then research your site and its context and present several design options that marry your brief with our observations and reflections. We also examine town planning obligations, map out an estimate of project and construction costs, and provide further information around time and likely process for your project.
Bijl Architecture’s inclusive approach fosters long-standing relationships with clients, builders, consultants and peers, forming the basis of enjoyable and successful projects.
Our projects are found throughout Sydney and circle our beloved home suburb of Willoughby, but our work also takes us to regional NSW, Victoria and Tasmania. Enquiries from further afield are always welcome.
LOCATION: Sydney, Australia
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Bijl Architecture designed Maranatha House in Neutral Bay on the lower north shore of Sydney. This project explores layers—material layers, liminal layers, and site layers. It involves peeling back, exposing, renewing, and refining the spatial expression of a house with many histories.
Zuster House explores a classic materials palette with muted tones, textured pressed metal, and characterful timber panel features speaking of tradition and grace.
This former coach-house located in Bendigo, Victoria explores heritage and adaptive design from a new perspective. The Bannerman house needed to exude delight, charm, compactness and comfort.
An ever-changing family home in Cremorne Point receives a forever makeover. Kareela Crest House had undergone a series of partial renovations over its lifetime, leaving it with little joie de vivre.
Our clients briefed a generous new family home, integrated landscape, and pool for their Lilyfield site in Sydney’s inner west. The tight, sloping block had an enormous rockface stepping up the rear of the site and fronted on to a major transport intersection.
Our clients and their children saw the untapped potential in this modest interwar home in Hunters Hill. Working from home had increased in frequency, with the usual tensions of accommodating a growing family becoming more apparent.
With its heritage skin and sleek contemporary addition, the Doorzien House challenges perceptions of traditional houses through its approach to renewal and reconstruction.
Perched on a steep block with majestic harbour views, the clarity of the original Interwar cottage interiors had been muddled by decades of ad hoc alterations.
