Photographer of architecture, landscapes, lifestyle, food, travel and art work. Shooting since 1999, Derek Swalwell started working with Melbourne architects and designers. His work has since expanded to include international design firms, advertising agencies and many overseas titles. He enjoys working with great people and ideas.
With a career spanning 20 years, Derek Swalwell is one of Australia’s best-known and most respected architectural photographers. Known for capturing some of the world’s most spectacular architecturally designed buildings, Swalwell is fascinated by architecture and the built environment, both in Australia and abroad.
It follows, then, that he would collaborate with a celebrated Australian architecture firm (and long-standing clients) to renovate and update his own home in Melbourne.
LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia
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Architects: Rob Kennon Architects Project: Goulburn Valley House Location: Goulburn Valley, Victoria, Australia Area: 300 sqm Photographs: Derek Swalwell Designed by Rob Kennon Architects, Goulburn Valley House won the 2016 AIA Victorian Architecture Residential Commendation Awards. Project description: Set on the outskirts of a small rural town in northern Victoria, this is a family home […]
Garth House is a project recently completed by Ola Architecture Studio. Description by Ola Architecture Studio: Located in Northcote, Garth was once a dilapidated nineteenth century Italianate Victorian masonry dwelling who has since been restored and added to with an elegant and restrained timber addition to accommodate a young family of five and two energetic
Project: Sandringham House Architects: Techne Architecture + Interior Design Interior design: Doherty Design Studio Area: 83 sqm Location: Sandringham, Melbourne, Australia Photographs: Derek Swalwell Modernization and extension of Sandringham house is the result of collaboration between Techne Architecture + Interior Design and Doherty Design Studio. The brief from the client was to convert the double-fronted weatherboard
Architects: Architects EAT Project: Fitzroy Loft / Conversion of an old industrial warehouse Location: Melbourne, Australia Photo Credits: Derek Swalwell Architects EAT have transformed this old industrial warehouse in a two-story family home. Fitzroy Loft is located in Melbourne, Australia, and was completed in 2015. This project is a conversion of a gritty 250m2 brick warehouse in
Concrete House is a single-family home designed by Matt Gibson Architecture and Design in Melbourne, Australia. Composed of 2 longitudinal zones located to north & south of an east west spine – living spaces to the north and sleeping/utility spaces to the south, Concrete House utilises vertical connections and void spaces to provide strong visual connections
Project: Beach Courtyard House Architect: AUHAUS Architecture Styling: Nina Provan Build: Ashley Crowe Builders Location: 13th Beach Victoria, Australia Awards: Houses Awards 2016 Shortlist Photography: Derek Swalwell Beach Courtyard House is a project completed by Auhaus Architecture with interior design conceived by Nina Provan. The house is located on the 13th Beach golf course in Barwon
Project: Torquay house Architect: Auhaus Architecture Builder: Oliveri Construction Photography: Derek Swalwell Torquay house is a gorgeous concrete house completed by Auhaus Architecture, an award winning design studio operating in Melbourne and the Bellarine Peninsula. Description by Auhaus: Located on the Victorian Surf Coast, this insitu concrete house is composed of a series of planes.
Flinders House is a family home designed by Geoff Challis of Venn Architects. Description by Venn Architects: Set on a sweeping hill in coastal Victoria, this house demonstrates how harmoniously architecture can sit within its surroundings. The sculptured contours of the roof bring the house to life, seeming to sail over the landscape, while its
Beach Avenue House is a three-storey house designed for a young family by Schulberg Demkiw Architects. The house has an area of 260 sqm and is located in Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Internal courtyards, timber screens and soft landscaping allow our clients enjoy their home providing them with the necessary privacy from their neighbours without compromising
