Breathe Architecture is a Melbourne based studio, designing world class architecture with an enduring and meaningful impact on housing affordability, accessibility and sustainability.
Breathe Architecture was founded in 2001 by Design Director Jeremy McLeod and Tamara Veltre. Underpinning all of our work is the rigorous pursuit of sustainable design that is simultaneously beautiful, seemingly effortless, and environmentally positive. We have maintained our position at the forefront of sustainable design since inception; and through our award-winning built works, advocacy and design leadership, have built a reputation for delivering high quality architectural solutions.
Breathe are also the founders of the Nightingale Model, which was established in parallel with the inaugural project: Nightingale 1.0, commencing in 2014 and completed in 2017. Nightingale is a development delivery tool for deliberative, design-led, triple-bottom-line housing that has now evolved to become an independent, profit-for-purpose entity that is the keeper of the Nightingale intellectual property developed by us, and the custodians of the Nightingale purchaser waitlist. Nightingale has garnered both local and global attention in the marketplace, and further differentiates and demonstrates Breathe’s ability to think laterally and productively to achieve new ways to deliver on our practice purpose.
We are who we are, and have the purpose and vision we do, because we believe we can make a difference. It is through this lens we find broader opportunities and greater design solutions that others do not see – or simply do not want to consider. We push that extra mile because we genuinely care about the outcome, form and function, both now and into the future. We consider ourselves accountable. Environmentalists. Humanitarians. Urbanists. Activists.
Our purpose is to design architecture that is meaningful and accessible to all. To approach the built environment from a holistic and sustainable perspective, reconciling ecological and social design impacts within any economic climate. We aim to be change agents in this space, and to be advocates for the people in the cities in which we are fortunate to live and work.
LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia
LEARN MORE: breathe.com.au
Ima Asa Yoru, nestled on the ground floor of Skye House, is a culinary gem that brings the essence of Japanese tradition to Nightingale Village in Brunswick. With a focus on good food, exceptional service, and community connection,
Nightingale Ballarat includes one, two, and three-bedroom apartments, a rooftop garden and community room, a café, and an office on the ground floor, all 100% sold prior to completion.
Fresh Hope is an aspirational organisation, a charity working tirelessly to transform lives and the communities they work within. Their new office in the heart of Sydney needed to reflect their ethos
Warehouse Greenhouse is about the past and the future. It is a story of industrialisation and human occupation, and an attempt to reconcile these with the natural environment.
Edgars Creek House is all about a connection to nature. This home is about the country and the landscape in which it exists, and offers a way to live as part of that system rather than trying to preside over it.
As part of the New Student Precinct, Melbourne University were looking to build a triple bottom line student experience. It was to build on cultural diversity, be wholly sustainable, socially responsible and provide a new and unique student offering …
Paramount House Hotel rises out of the 80 year old warehouse that occupies the site. A copper, chevron screen crowns its brick shell and converses with the neighbouring art deco buildings of this former film precinct.
Occupying an under-utilised open space at the rear of two existing Californian bungalows, Bardolph Gardens consists of two single storey dwellings that provide environmentally sustainable, affordable, and well designed rental housing in Glen Iris.
