ResidentialMulti-Residential
65 The Esplanade, Balmoral
Architect: David Humphries Architects Four storey luxury apartment block over a carpark basement. The basement required a 7m excavation in rock, together with difficult shoring to the neighbouring properties. The structure itself was a combination of concrete framing and loadbearing masonry, featuring impressive 3m cantilevered balconies. More detail on this project | 6 Buckhurst Avenue, Point Piper
Architect: Alex Popov Architects This six storey waterfront apartment block presents the difficulties of infilling new residential areas between the existing apartment block and the existing multi story carpark which were at diffrerent levels. Modifications include basement excavation for new lower levels, incorporating the deletion of existing columns and load bearing structure. |
Guess Avenue Apartments, Wolli Creek
Project Engineer: Nick Joannides | Kenneth Street, Tamarama
Architect: Tobias Partners Five storey luxury apartment incoprating a sub terrain carpark basements requring up to 8 metres of excavation in to rock. The structure itself was a combination of concrete framing and loadbearing insulated concrete cavity walls. |
59 - 73 Cascade Street, Paddington
Architect: Group GSA Pty Ltd Five storey luxury apartment and retail block over a carpark basement. Constructed adjacent to rock face on site of old quarry. The structure itself was a combination of concrete framing and loadbearing masonry. | 52 Bay Street, Rockdale
Architect: Jones Sonter Architects 8-storey residential and retail building, with cantilevered upper level winter gardens. Structure was concrete-framed, post-tensioned flat plate slabs and steel-framed and bondek penthouse level. |
Buckingham Street, Surry Hills
Architect: Baker Kavanagh Architects A 4-storey "internal" development consisting of a new concrete framed structure and basement carpark built inside an existing church hall. The walls needed to be retained and this required shoring, underpinning, bracing and final fixing to the new internal structure. | Cope Street, Redfern
Architect: Cracknell Lonergan Architects 4-storey unit block on poor ground requiring an economic pile layout. Lack of carpark headroom dictated a beam-free transfer slab and the party walls themselves were designed as deep hanger beams. Partridge Partners also designed the structure for a Richard Goodwin parasitic sculpture on the street façade. |
Owen & Gordon Streets, Port Macquarie
Architect: Wolff Architecture Pty Ltd 5-storey residential development with two storey basement excavation. Structure resolved to minimise load transfer and achieve one transfer slab over basement carpark. | Nursery Street, Hornsby
Architect: Cracknell Lonergan Architects 4 blocks of three storey walk-up apartments using traditional load-bearing brickwork and in situ concrete floor slabs. The Council set-backs and partially buried carpark required large cantilevered ground beams held down by ground anchors in order to achieve column-free carparking. |
20 Battery Street, Clovelly
Project Engineer: Nick Joannides Three large townhouses with basement and lower level excavation in loose sand using tied-back contiguous piers and diagonal braces where no permission was given to anchor across boundary. | Avoca Street, Randwick
Architect: Hill Thalis Architecture & Urban Projects 5-storey residential and retail complex with 2 floors of underground parking in sandy and rock excavation surrounded by shops, church and residential developments. |
Grose Street, North Parramatta
Architect: Order Architects Five storey mixed development (commercial and residential) over a carpark basement. The structural hurdle (and striking feature) was a large column-free transfer at first floor over the main retail section. This was solved with two-storey high “deep beam” concrete walls. A second transfer was required at Ground Floor level. | Anzac Parade, KingsfordProject Engineer: Nick Joannides 40, two and three bedroom unit development built over 6 retail outlets, in loose sands using tied-back contiguous piers. Structure was concrete framed with post tensioned suspended typical floors and transfer level of beams. |
