Rachael Bernstone

Jun 2, 2024 | australiandesignreview.com | Rachael Bernstone |Penny Craswell

COX Architecture with 3XN Architects, Aileen Sage, Turf Design Studio and Bangawarra have won the Design Excellence Competition to redesign Riverside Theatres. The design team competed against the world’s best for the opportunity to reimagine the much-loved Parramatta cultural hub, writes January Jones. The winning design includes a 1500-seat lyric theatre, as well as a smaller studio theatre, and a cinema.

May 22, 2024 | renew.org.au | Rachael Bernstone

The couple found plenty of artefacts during the build, including horseshoes, a book about horse diseases, a tin of saddle grease, Nancy’s training licence, and some handwritten diary pages she’d concealed in the back of her wardrobe. They also rescued the original stall doors, which were sanded and sealed before being rehung in situ. “You can see places where the horses have nibbled the timber,” says Grant.

Mar 4, 2024 | renew.org.au | Rachael Bernstone

Eliza did a short course in sustainable building design at the start of the design process, and while she understood the theory of passive solar design, she and Doug had never really experienced it for themselves. Their leap of faith paid off: the house performs exceptionally well all year round. During their first winter, they used the reverse-cycle heating only occasionally, before sunrise on the coldest mornings.

Feb 1, 2024 | architectureau.com | Rachael Bernstone

The owners of this new home – James, Anne and their two teenage sons – approached architect Andrew Hagemann, director of AHA Studio, having admired one of his earlier houses. James had a vision for what the house could be and presented Andrew with his own hand-drawn sketch. This drawing captured James’s ideas about how the new house might occupy the site, which overlooks the Canning River at Deep Water Point in Perth, on Whadjuk land.

Oct 1, 2023 | renew.org.au | Rachael Bernstone

This new house in Perth’s inner suburbs puts forward a fresh model of integrated sustainable living for a young family. Small-scale family home on a tricky siteDesigned for immersion in natureInnovative open pavilion Architect Andrew Boyne is fully committed to a holistic view of sustainable living, and his own recently completed house in Perth’s Mt Lawley exemplifies this ethos.