Mays Point Coastal Retreat / Tanner Architects
A coastal retreat for family and guests. A durable, tectonic structure enables subdued spaces that bring focus to the expansive seascape location.
A coastal retreat for family and guests. A durable, tectonic structure enables subdued spaces that bring focus to the expansive seascape location.
The Dolphin Sands Studio, while located close to the road to minimise incursion into the site, is accessed via a path that works with the existing contours, closely wrapping a dune, to create separation and privacy.
The Nedd house was designed to sit in the saddle between two rocky outcrops and to sit lightly on the landscape. It was located to avoid any rock breaking. Our clients had no desire for a garden.
True artists inspired by socially relevant modern design, architect Geoff Campen and designer Diana Ruiz designed a new minimal, modern, open home they would call their own.
Located on the beautiful island of Texel, only a ten-minute walk from the North Sea, the Sustainable Holiday Home provides a cosy but distinctive stay.
Configured as a boomerang to accentuate the land’s natural curvature, this high-ground home perches at the brow of a hillside to maximize the site’s 180-degree perspective.
A longtime client of Altius Architecture, the owners of this residence started looking for a cottage home in 2007. After four years exploring Ontario cottage country, they purchased this property from a colleague but immediately began to doubt their decision. However, this doubt quickly melted away after they had spent their first summer there.
To disappear to a remote house off grid requires both technology and tenacity. First there’s energy use and battery storage to consider, adequate rainwater collection and, of course, bushfire planning and design. For practice director, Simon Anderson, eight acres of native bushland in the Blue Mountains proved an irresistible temptation for research and development.