ADVERTISING AGENCY

Sydney NSW Australia 2008-2009

A major refurbishment of an existing historic 1930's 'grand' building will house the agencies 300 staff. Over four levels, new open-plan offices are juxtaposed with formal and informal breakout spaces, including a night-club-bar and video-enhanced, agency cafe. Spaces move seamlessly from classic elegance and industrially chic to art house and the playfully underground.

Photography by Ben Yabsley and DJE

An independently published journal on urbanism was designed to communicate to academics and the general public. Set to a black and white 2 column format each spread covers a double page and each issue carries a different graphic response within that format.

This coffee table book on seminal Australian surfers was art directed, photographed and graphically framed like ancient Greek busts on a simple horizon line. This dramatic black and white document was designed as a detached yet moody anthropological study of world champion surfers.

2005

This simple architectural catalogue-publication combining old and new projects was designed to communicate simply and directly as a comprehensive review of the DJE identity through the use of bold images and minimalist text.

An original typography was conceived and extruded for our architectural logo.

2003

Environmental navigation within the Art Wall offices uses elements of the sunscreen featured on the exterior of the building. These large format numerals introduce the environment you pass into.

2001

This signage and identity was named and branded by the DJE Graphic Studio. Integrally attached to the door frame rather than separate is an industrial steel street sign, ‘Metalika’. Backlit by the lobby lights the typography of the letters communicates with the raw aesthetic of the structure. We also designed the lobby door handle.

2009

A direct funding document and historical study were two documents generated for dual purposes, for both digital and print. Both documents were used by the client for the purpose of building awareness and funding for the project when travelling nationally and abroad.

2009

A subtle abstraction of the Baroque logo masks the lower portion of the patisserie’s busy open kitchen. Other environmental signage attaches itself to the landmark site, mixing traditional heritage architecture with complimentary sculpted metalwork.

Original logo designed by others.

Sydney NSW Australia 1999-2001

A simply profiled soft leather seat is lit by a sequence of bare batten lights which are fixed to the off form concrete lobby interior.

Sydney NSW Australia 2008-2009

A major refurbishment of an existing historic 1930's 'grand' building will house the agencies 300 staff. Over four levels, new open-plan offices are juxtaposed with formal and informal breakout spaces, including a night-club-bar and video-enhanced, agency cafe. Spaces move seamlessly from classic elegance and industrially chic to art house and the playfully underground.

DJE GALLERY + OFFICES

Sydney NSW Australia 2009

Dale Jones-Evans Architecture is designing their own new office and gallery in a 430m2 raw concrete undercroft space in Potts Point. The Gallery will be a place for exhibiting innovation in design. The new office will be as one piece of furniture housed in a studio-gallery context.

CULTURAL & ARTS CENTRE

Cape York QLD Australia 2007-2010

A new aboriginal arts centre and museum is sited along the banks of an exquisite billabong. The architectures sinuous form slides its way along the billabongs soft sand banks. A continuous screened perimeter forms a deep external usable space which protects users from tropical monsoons and harsh climates. The high curved roofs make a venturi effect and dramatic exhibition spaces as well as a powerful new iconography on the landscape for this remote community.

Darlinghurst NSW 2007-2009

A substantially renovated terrace involves reinstating the historic facade while skillfully peeling open the interior volumes to sky, light and air, replete with new attic, basement and out-rigger building. The lower level living is carved from sandstone and left as part of the interior, new luxury services are planned into a new basement over which a new curved loft building is perched on an in-out terrace. A new site line from street to rear boundary excites the senses in a completely unexpected orchestration of scale and delight.

UAE RESIDENCE

Sharjah UAE 2009

Two solid fork-like blocks are hollowed out to create multiple entries. Spanning between these blocks is the main living body which opens to a large court one side and manicured gardens the other. Spanning above the blocks is a massive rotating form made of stone which cantilevers to provide shade below. It houses the sleeping quarters and library.

2005

Dje designed, directed, choreographed, scripted and produced a performance piece based on a human interaction set in 2050. The performers are male/female or actual/shadow and indulge in a ritual and restaurant of the future. Small foods are ingested by medical means. The performance takes place within an actual restaurant and the diners are not expecting it. The performance is set to an electronic score.

1. MILKY WATER RUG

2005

2.HIGH STAND TABLE

2004

3. BRONZE PATINA VASE

2001

4. METALIKA SEAT

2001

1. TIMBER SCREEN

2004

2. LOFT SCREEN

2003

3. COR-TEN SCREEN

2003

4. VEIL

2000

1-2. IMMACULATE DOOR

2004

3. GATE + FENCE

2000 + 2004

4. WATER DOOR

2001

1. ARTWALL OPENING

2004

2. KING OF COUNTRY

1992

3. METAL SKIN

1992

4. DEATH RAFT

1989

5. ESSINGTON LEWIS

1988

1. WRAP

2007

2. ROUGE

2003

3. LURE CHANDELIER

2006

4. BEADED CHANDELIER

2004

5. MUSHROOM LIGHT

2001

6. GRASS SEED DREAMING

2001

2004

2. GATE + FENCE

2000 + 2004

3. WATER DOOR

2001

4. MILKY WATER RUG

2005

5.HIGH STAND TABLE

2004

6. BRONZE PATINA VASE

2001

7. TIMBER SCREEN

2004

8. LOFT SCREEN

2003

9. COR-TEN SCREEN

2003

Boutwell Draper Gallery 2009

An exhibition of built and conceptual projects for architecture theatre and sound scapes unfold across the wall in bold graphic compilations The central scroll outlines the conceptual inputs underpinning these works which are codified in two sculptural models - of darkness and light accompanied by two book-end prose statements.

2009

A scroll of architectural drawings mind maps and unbuilt projects is framed by the blankness of empty artists easels A black and crystal clear object - lightness and darkness / life and death represent a continuum which suggests origin and time do not exist.

BAROQUE

BAR BISTRO PATISSERIE

The Rocks Sydney NSW

Australia 2009-2010

A large core and shell interior part of a heritage building will remain untouched and accommodate a new free standing interior. The interior will intentionally contrast high tech materials and virtual surfaces against the patina of the former building. The open kitchen-patisserie-baking plan will form an unseen ‘food laboratoire’ in which customers can observe the making while also enjoying Sydney harbour views.

(existing site photo)

THE FOLDED HOUSE NO. 3

Woollahra NSW Australia 2007-2010

A restored and internally modernised cottage is encapsulated by a new growth. Beginning with the perimeter garden walls it expands to become the main living space of the new ensemble. The off form concrete planes rise up to generate a shell into which the planes dissolve. Warm north sunken and raised courtyards create a usable and ornamentally monumental landscape where a kitchen bench becomes an outdoor seat.

2005-2007

An installation for any major sports stadium in the world the big football is an entertainment complex of epic scale and dynamics. Conceived as a double sphere circulation is lanned between the two skins while the inner space houses an auditorium of translucency and lighting effects. Large natural light apertures also double as private rooms suspended over the stage below. At night the big football celebrates itself as an iconic international form as its visual message is beamed direct to television sets around the world.

CURVE HOUSE

Darlinghurst NSW 2007-2009

A substantially renovated terrace involves reinstating the historic facade while skillfully peeling open the interior volumes to sky, light and air, replete with new attic, basement and out-rigger building. The lower level living is carved from sandstone and left as part of the interior, new luxury services are planned into a new basement over which a new curved loft building is perched on an in-out terrace. A new site line from street to rear boundary excites the senses in a completely unexpected orchestration of scale and delight.

(existing facade photo)

M&C SAATCHI

ADVERTISING AGENCY

Sydney NSW Australia 2008-2009

A major refurbishment of an existing historic 1930's 'grand' building will house the agencies 300 staff. Over four levels, new open-plan offices are juxtaposed with formal and informal breakout spaces, including a night-club-bar and video-enhanced, agency cafe. Spaces move seamlessly from classic elegance and industrially chic to art house and the playfully underground.

(existing building photo)

PLEZNIK SPORTS STADIUM

Ljuibijana Slovenia 2009

The only non-european to compete for the design of a new sports stadium with a hotel, retail, clinic and entertainment complex DJE designed around Jose Pleznik’s former historic stadium creating an intimate urban plan housed under one roof. The sculptural roof contains fingers of roofs which splinter into the site and adapt to the urban context.

BIRKENHEAD HOTEL

Drummoyne NSW Australia 2007-2010

Major additions to the former hotel will add three new floors housing a new basement kitchen bars and accommodation. Generous internal courts will be formed while new levels and window framing will provide district and water views from within. The new form will be like a jawbone with clever horizontal windows and a filigree of shaded devices which also act as privacy screens to neighbouring properties.

(existing site photo)

ELIZABETH STREET HOTEL

Sydney NSW 2009-2010

A new hotel will be designed to stretch from street to street to fit under a high-rise undercroft space. A glass skin of transparency will house a new multifunctional facility of bars, reception spaces and bistro. The hotel is planned on split-levels and will read as a lantern of light making an active street presence to an ignored windy space.

Sydney New South Wales 2009-

A new hotel will be designed to stretch from street to street to fit under a high-rise undercroft space. A glass skin of transparency will house a new multifunctional facility of bars, reception spaces and bistro. The hotel is planned on split-levels and will read as a lantern of light making an active street presence to an ignored windy space.

GALLERIES ON ELIZABETH

Surry Hills NSW Australia 2008-2010

A new 9 story residential complex with retail frontage is squeezed between an old warehouse and offices in inner city Sydney. The inner spaces are open gallery living spaces finished in raw concrete and timber. The street façade is a vertically threaded glass skin making a powerful corner statement. The building has a 5 star energy rating.

THE FOLDED HOUSE NO. 3

Woollahra NSW Australia 2007-2010

A restored and internally modernised cottage is encapsulated by a new growth. Beginning with the perimeter garden walls it expands to become the main living space of the new ensemble. The off form concrete planes rise up to generate a shell into which the planes dissolve. Warm north sunken and raised courtyards create a usable and ornamentally monumental landscape where a kitchen bench becomes an outdoor seat.

1988

A skewed stage with multiple entry points house a series of mobile sets forming the steel works plants of Newcastle. Based on the life of the steel baron Essington Lewis.

Surry Hills NSW 1999

A five storey vertical wall ascends with the buildings main staircase. It is a deep black crimson mirror like picture which transforms to a black tar like texture as it reaches up to meet the sky. It acts as an echo as occupants use the stair.

Qingdao China 2006

A capsule like helmet building made of copper crowns a site which is gently lifted up a floor and oriented east to the sea. Emerging from underground entries and spaces the house surfaces from its dunal place and perches atop the new landscaped and elevated site. The architecture scans the sea views between buildings and close down for protection to create privacy from neighbours. The internal spaces float freely within the architectural envelope.

2004

Timber laser cut screens allowing filtered light and air to inner rooms were designed for 100 apartments.

2. SCREEN

2003

A filigree of laser cut panels form both an acoustic ceiling and a rear illuminated screen wall.

3. COR-TEN SCREEN

2003

A laser cut screen of 50% perforations forms the perfect optical reading of the outside while reducing air conditioning plant by 50%.

4. VEIL

2000

Nine layers of deformed and differing sizes of overlaid aluminum rod.

2005

Invited by Vogue Living magazine and Designer Rugs to design a rug for a charity event it was titled ‘Under Milky Waters’ and is based on first hand experience. “I was sitting on the causeway at Challis Crossing in Arnhem Land, feeling gushing, milky water over my body, knowing a huge salty, which I had spotted earlier was stalking - just downstream”.

2. HIGH STAND TABLE

2004

3. BRONZE PATINA VASE

2001

Docklands Melbourne VIC Australia 2003

Collaboration with Dani Marti artist

New windscreen sculptures

Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd Architects and Sydney based Barcelona artist Dani Marti collaborated on the winning entry to a limited invitation competition to design a series of windbreaks between the towers of Mirvac’s Docklands development in Melbourne, Victoria. The large-scale, sculptural pieces utilise mass-produced materials to explore concepts of the molecular and molar. The works forms part of the Docklands Public Art Program in Melbourne.

2004

A sinuously shaped form slides with undulations across this immaculate high gloss metallic door.

2. GATE + FENCE

2000 + 2004

A series of splayed lines form a new fence and gate to an historic residence.

3. DOOR

2001

A formed wire screen moves like water to make a security gate for the a restored terrace house.

SCHOOL CONVERSION

Surry Hills NSW Australia 1995-1997

(Former St Francis de Sales

Group School Hall)

(1924 local significance)

Heritage facade restoration alterations and additions. A 1920’s School Hall was converted into 10 residential lofts. A steel and glass chassis, the primary horizontal and vertical circulation system, was designed and clipped to the side of the building forming an elevated street which also contains private balconies. This eliminated internal circulation maintaining the full scale of the interiors. The loft interiors are gallery live-work spaces of full volume with the structural elements articulated in the composition of space.

Photography by Dale Jones-Evans

2007

2. ROUGE

2003

3. LURE CHANDELIER

2006

4. BEADED CHANDELIER

2004

5. MUSHROOM LIGHT

2001

6. GRASS SEED DREAMING

2001

Kings Cross NSW Australia 2006

(Former bank)

(1956 item of local significance)

The former Westpack Bank’s 1956 facade of finial elements was both modified and restored while the rest of the envelope was peeled open to make an active street frontage.

Sydney NSW Australia 2007

Two levels of the Cargo Bar were refurbished to include new bars ceilings and lights. An over scaled red lantern was stretched across a new black bar on the first floor. On the ground floor a new shingled plywood ceiling made from a perspective of scales wraps down and over a new brass and timber bar. Large cloth wrap-around lights fill the scale of the room.

& ARTS CENTRE

Cape York QLD Australia 2007-2010

The new Kowanyamma Aboriginal Cultural and Arts Centre is planned for national and international guests to study local indigenous culture. The centre contains guest accommodation, a large gallery holding permanent artifacts and temporary exhibitions and a retail outlet. Its generous perimeter verandah and landscaped terrace allow for large ceremonial clan and public gatherings and festivities along the billabongs cool banks.

1989

A simple ink blue stage set acts as an expanse of space representing the polluted Rhine River in Germany. A caste make their way along the river on a raft which inevitably leads to their death.

Sydney NSW 2003-2004

A two storey black backlit light box connects two separate interior spaces in one club. The movement of light is abstracted like a sea across the face of the box and illuminates the main stairway with ribbons and bands of subtle shades.

HAIR LONDON

Sydney NSW Australia 2007-2008

An interior fit for a new hair salon in Sydney was designed as being simple reflective and pure to effect numerous optical illusions and frames. The interiors translucency is both feminine and masculine and takes on a high tech feel allowing its virtual surfaces to read against the raw concrete space which contains it.

Photography Dale Jones-Evans

Window graphic by others

Sydney NSW Australia 1999

Perched on top of an existing 1960’s tower offering exceptional harbour views, this simple rolling form made of oxidized ‘green’ copper is designed as a craned in, pre-fabricated structure. Planned over three levels its northern wall composed of automated shutters acts like a huge eye with sunglasses monitoring the climatic and scenic conditions. Development approved.

Alexandria NSW Australia 1999

A new infill residence is shaped between two terraces a main street and laneway. The new polished stainless steel form wedges tight between dwellings then breaks free and opens to the northern court. The curvaceous form is punched with a series of small windows acting as a privacy screen to neighbouring properties. The terraced street scape is debunked by steeling the window patterns but inverting the proportions. A radial cut out slit forms the main new entry.

(Development approved)

HOUSE NO.2

Mosman NSW Australia 2005

A long stretched breath of a building inverts a curve down and along a descending waterfront site. It’s gently curving profiles hug the land and send fellers of laser cut sunscreens cantilevered out to the west and sea views. An inner court is caught within the sculptural weaving of space and provides a sun screened green inner sanctum of cool space. The building uses solar, grey and potable and recycled water.

(Development approved)

PACIFIC OCEAN HOUSE

Little Bay NSW Australia 2006-2009

A coastal residence is sited with north aspects over a golf course and the Pacific Ocean. The architecture is bunkered down into the fall of the land where two blocks form an open terrace to the sea and an inner protected courtyard. The structure is of raw concrete and fluid lines of blockwork which create subtle textures of movement. Passive energy design, thermal mass, solar, recycled water and stormwater harvesting are incorporated.

LUXURY ECO RESORT

Lord Howe Island New South Wales 2007

A boutique luxury eco-resort designed for a beautifully palmed and wooded site on Lord Howe Island. The project consists of a restaurant, 4 high end luxury villas, swimming pool, gardens and service areas and accommodation. The design is based on strict ESD principles and will function for a remote location free of mains services.

TOWER TAO AND

MOBIUS-CHIRAL AT OLDGULCH

11th Architecture Venice Biennale

Italy 2007

Our models for the Australian pavilion are studies for two projects. One a 3 kilometer long structure which is both a horizontal building and tower and the other a proposed hotel complex which spans two man made islands. Both projects are in Abu Dhabi UAE.

LA RENAISSANCE

BAR BISTRO PATISSERIE

The Rocks Sydney NSW

Australia 2009-2010

A large core and shell interior part of a heritage building will remain untouched and accommodate a new free standing interior. The interior will intentionally contrast high tech materials and virtual surfaces against the patina of the former building. The open kitchen-patisserie-baking plan will form an unseen ‘food laboratoire’ in which customers can observe the making while also enjoying Sydney harbour views.

Melbourne Victoria Australia 1984-1985

(Former butter factory)

(Listed item of local significance)

Award 1985 Victorian RAIA Merit Award Outstanding Architecture Renovated

This interior conversion of a former historic butter factory to a nightclub ensured the façade was restored and painted classic white while the interior respected the three floor volumes.

Blacktown NSW Australia 2007

A re-working of an approved subdivision ensured proper solar orientation of block layouts, less roads and integrated location of set back garages. Fences were eliminated and porous landscapes, planted with native low watering vegetation, was planned. Several dwelling types were designed with budgets of less than $1000 per m2. They are based on passive solar design principles while making active streetscapes and minimising privacy invasion.

HOUSE NO.1

Mosman NSW Australia 2005-2009

This large descending waterfront property is virtually re-built within the existing footprint and envelope of the former building. A coned copper form containing an office and lift lobby sits on a landscaped roof over a black podium body of a building. The building is opened from a dramatic sunken court through to water views. A new terraced landscape and pool flows to the harbour.

Sydney NSW Australia 1997-2001

Rising out of the rear of a terrace site this off-form concrete and metallic vertically proportioned residential bunker completes a new inner city street corner. The rolling roof-form envelopes the internal spaces of voids and living rooms and narrows by engaging an internal court. The project pushes development approvals as it negotiates by mediating an historic context of terraces one side and the back of large commercial buildings the other.

Photography by

Sharon Rees & Jeremy Simons

Eveleigh NSW Australia 2007

Opened by Sydney’s Lord Mayor this public art project ‘a fence’ backdrops the park and is a collaboration between DJE and aboriginal artist Bronwyn Bancroft. Bronwyn’s painted images stand as custodians of the park while DJE’s laser cut screens make a kind of foliage of abstracted filtered light patterns.

Melbourne VIC

Australia 1986-87

A former theatre replete with upper galleries and ornate ceilings was restored while a new steel upper level circulation system was inserted into the galleria volume. Intimate spaces for bars were carefully framed amongst the interior heritage fabric.

Sydney NSW Australia 2007

The design of a new 100-storey dockland tower is both a vertical and horizontal interconnected structure comprising two leaning towers. The composition forms one integrated building with both street and tower scales. The massive mixed-use towers are composed in a surrounding system of active streets, parklands and waterway connections. It makes a city within a city through one large structure as an alternative to many buildings.

SCHOOL CONVERSION

Sydney NSW Australia 1995-1996

A 1920’s School Hall was converted into 10 residential lofts. A steel and glass chassis, the primary horizontal and vertical circulation system, was designed and clipped to the side of the building forming an elevated street which also contains private balconies. This eliminated internal circulation maintaining the full scale of the interiors. The loft interiors are gallery live-work spaces of full volume with the structural elements articulated in the composition of space.

Pyrmont NSW Australia 2003-2005

The re-design of this massive heritage wool store into a 200-loft apartment metropolis delivered alternative housing choice including lofts, terraces, screened penthouses and roof top courtyard housing. The roof was conceived as an elevated Australian low watering parkland of grasslands, succulents and timber boardwalks, providing new bio-life and mitigating the city’s heat-sink effect. The architectures public domain of exploding orange plywood lined, concrete columned corridors and galleries are dramatic. Heritage restoration is combined with modern architecture and interiors.

Photography by John Gollings

CHAIN

2007

A study for a series of buildings which re-define the interface of between/ under/ around the public domain and private space. Spaces fuse and link in their smudged relations as dynamic forms both ground and float over and through the ground plane they inhabit. Lifted above earth for most of their footprint the public domain is not defined by streets alone but the myriad of landscaped potentials beneath the structures which are exposed to sunlight and its reflections off the sinuous forms.

THE BIG FOOTBALL

2005-2007

An installation for any major sports stadium in the world the big football is an entertainment complex of epic scale and dynamics. Conceived as a double sphere circulation is lanned between the two skins while the inner space houses an auditorium of translucency and lighting effects. Large natural light apertures also double as private rooms suspended over the stage below. At night the big football celebrates itself as an iconic international form as its visual message is beamed direct to television sets around the world.

LIVERPOOL ST HOTEL

Sydney NSW Australia 2007-2010

The ground level of this heritage building is opened and restored to reveal a 3 storey volume boutique hotel. A dynamic glass wall and open stair sits visibly behind the façade and activates the street. A new lobby and lift core is installed and takes you to newly restored commercial open warehouse offices above the hotel.

(existing site photo)

FOLDED HOUSE NO. 2

Bourke St Surry Hills NSW

Australia 2007-2009

The back of an altered terrace is wrapped in a new addition and given a separate pavilion. While the former terrace remnant will remain textured with historic scars and layers the two new buildings form one continuous folded ensemble making a new dialogue around a new garden court. The inner spaces are seamless in their connection to the gardens which are themselves sculptural.

Pyrmont, NSW 2003 - 2005

The existing roof top is designed as an elevated Australian parkland containing a glass box and sun screened complex of penthouses at one end and a unique block of inner-court houses the other.

Photography by John Gollings

Docklands Melbourne VIC Australia 2003

This Winning scheme for Docklands Windscreen Competition prevents high downdraft winds from the tower buildings to protect lobbies. Three incrementally rotating blade walls grow from a sea of glazed pebbles. The walls are striated with a horizontal patternation of movement. The ensemble is chameleon like and takes on the public domains material language while the imagery is connected to and abstracted from this former swampland.

FEASABILITY STUDY

Randwick NSW Australia 2005

A feasibility master plan to re-locate and develop new university facilities on the outer perimeter of the AJC horse racing track included housing, commercial, residential and hotels. The centre was was planned around new sporting facilities for off peak use with a large undercover car park for an expanding university. The project was estimated at one billion dollars.

Pyrmont NSW 1994

A review of the development controls and urban design implications for new development on Pyrmont's Peninsula for the City of Sydney. The study canvassed fine grain and tower development models and modified inappropriate controls on urban form to allow both to flourish while respecting heritage streetscapes and fine grain urban environments.

Korea 2005

The city was ordered on a public open space system shaped by water movement and natural irrigation flows. Existing hamlets are captured in the future growth of the city’s sinuous grid structure. The city opens around a central core of river-wooded park and is circumferentially constrained by the mountains which remain un-built. You can walk or cycle anywhere through the city free of surface traffic or move quickly with light rail networks.

Homebush Bay NSW Australia 1995

Invited by the NSW State Government to design a scheme for the 2000 Olympic site our team designed a 24 hour Olympic Park where the use of the site post Olympics was more significant than the sporting and related recreational functions. Our scheme included density around the railway station for mixed uses including hotels and housing and filling most of the open fabric between the major sporting facilities based on the argument that the natural site offered huge amounts of open space.

Sydney NSW Australia 2005

A large dockland area adjacent Sydney’s CBD was designed to incorporate a new urban parkland with waterfront shipping, recreation, leisure, residential and commercial activities. The new hybrid

towers are massed for sun penetration, to allow the cities streets to run through and minimise overshadowing. A new main street is made between the city and the towers. The urban design includes water recycling, natural filtration, mass solar collection and deep soiled roof-scaped gardens.

Canberra ACT Australia 2005

The Arboretum and gardens in Canberra, set on a 240 hectare burnt out bush site, were designed to act in concert with the landform, its micro and regional climates. The ground is a moving sea of dots (tree trunks) that form a myriad of sites and experiences. A pearl necklace of flaming red trees wraps the undulating site with sculptural presence and identity. Farmers Hill is left naked and exposed except for the old pines left standing after the great fires. The site houses semi underground facilities and an open amphitheatre.

Sydney NSW Australia 1995-2001

2002 Belle House of the Year

2002 RAIA Commendation Award

(1890 local listed heritage item)

A former terrace was fully restored to its original condition with new dormer windows added to the attic conversion. The front room and passage were maintained to ensure the entry-feel of the former terrace.

Photography by Paul Gosney,

John Gollings

Melbourne VIC Australia 1986-1987

(Former theatre)

(Listed item of local significance)

A former theatre replete with upper galleries and ornate ceilings was restored while a new steel upper level circulation system was inserted into the galleria volume. Intimate spaces for bars were carefully framed amongst the interior heritage fabric.

South Melbourne VIC Australia 1999-2000

(1888 state listed heritage item)

The former school was restored to its original condition including the reinstatement of the asphalt forecourt and picket fencing. The internal school rooms remained with each room accommodating a range and size of residential lofts in order to preserve the former school rooms.

Photography by Dale Jones-Evans

BENNELONG RESTAURANT

Opera House NSW Australia 2001

(1956 world listed heritage item)

The new interior to the Bennelong shell was bumped in (like a theatre prop) to ensure no fixings were made to the world heritage fabric. The shell structure was completely re-lit in order to dramatise the beauty of its fanned shape, form and ribbing.

Photography by Paul Gosney

Pyrmont NSW Australia 2003 - 2005

(Former woolstores)

(1916 – 1924 national listed heritage item)

The former facades were cleaned up and part restored. The historical layers of paint and sometimes visible signage remained as memory. The non-heritage internal items being the concrete structure (1980’s) was also designed into a reading of the buildings changes. The massive columns and capitals now dominant features within the loft apartment interiors and corridors.

Photography by John Gollings

Rushcutters Bay NSW Australia 2005-2006

(Former hotel)

(1964 state listed heritage item)

A new awning and openable shopfront was added to this heritage item in keeping with the curvaceous plan forms. The new interior ceiling also sweeps down in a curve echoing the circular form while making a contemporary statement.

Photography by John Gollings

Bronte NSW Australia 2002-2003

(1890 + 1920’s local listed heritage item)

A former Victorian Italianate cottage was later altered in a Californian bungalow style. The new contemporary works fold fluidly from the back of the existing building which is also altered to accommodate a new interior while restoring the exterior. Classic landscapes, a reconditioned sandstone wall and new sculptural gate complete the heritage and new works.

Photography by Ashley Jones-Evans

Sydney NSW Australia 2005-2006

An interior fit out for a new wine bar and restaurant is crafted from wood and leather set to the glow of reflective brass lighting. A huge cabinet wall of wine backstops the room along which a banquette and central island bar are oriented to the external terraces and fresh air. The ambience and human comfort factor of a warm environment underpin the design.

Photography by Dale Jones-Evans

Opera House NSW Australia 2001

The lighting design was critical in creating a sensual ambience for Guillame’s outstanding, five hat - awarded restaurant. We re-lit Utzon’s world heritage, Opera House to dramatise the structure floating above an intimately lit restaurant below. A earth palette of fabrics and furniture grounds the restaurant, on which we placed theatre-set, designed objects including aboriginal painted lamps and poles, over-scaled vases and flower arrangements and joinery, to complete this stunning, operatic - dining experience.

Photography by Paul Gosney

BAR + RESTAURANT

King Street Wharf NSW

Australia 2002-2003

2004 NSW RAIA

Commendation for Interior Architecture

2005 Australian Hotels Association (AHA)

NSW Awards Joint Winner, Bar of the Year

Located at the edge of a wharf in Sydney Harbour the interior of Bungalow 8 was designed as a 'pacific' taverna. Conceived as a sea of yellow light reflecting off a black split bamboo texture the interior space mediates the intensity of the Australian sunlight by day and becomes a magical painting by night.

Photography by Paul Gosney

BAR + RESTAURANT

King Street Wharf NSW

Australia 2002-2003

2005 Australian Hotels Association (AHA)

NSW Awards Winner, Bar of the Year

2004 NSW RAIA Commendation

for Interior Architecture

2004 Australian Liquor Industry

Awards Winner, Bar of the Year, 2004

Sensual and comfortable, it was designed as a stylish new waterfront venue for the urban chic of Sydney. To ensure its different appeal we designed a warm, laser cut space, enhanced by multiple lighting techniques and lusciously designed chandeliers. A generous and impressive central timber bar, beautifully padded custom leather furniture and exquisitely designed screens create a space of absolute human comfort.

Photography by Paul Gosney

Rushcutters Bay NSW Australia 2006

Major alterations and roof additions to the existing bank for a new hotel and entertainment complex generate a new street front for Kings Cross central square. The ground level is peeled open to the square as a public bar while a large curvaceous roof form makes a new sky bar and garden with two entertainment floors between.

Kings Cross NSW Australia 2005-2006

It was important the design referenced the local park and former Gazebo Hotel’s vivid social history. This was achieved through the design of the sweeping curved green plywood ceiling, the bars live moss wall and photographs and news clippings of former infamous guests. We designed a mixture of comfortable recycled and custom made furniture, lighting and intimate objects, creating a cellar-like room of psychological familiarity with sentiment and theatrical presence.

Photography by John Gollings

Tamarack Resort Idaho

USA 2006-2009

A new ski lodge is sited in the woods with its back to the mountain slopes and all rooms oriented to the lakes. Composed of a grey stone base with black timber upper body and shingled roofs it complies with local codes but passes on the ‘log’ vernacular. Its slick black-white interior is set off against recycled timber posts and patina copper windows and doors. It contains guest and children retreats, ski storage and saunas/spas and generous and commanding terraces with cooking and open fires.

Margaret River WA Australia 1998-2000

Overlooking the Indian Ocean the architectural design is composed as a journey to both conceal and reveal its powerful natural setting as you descend into and through its open courts, cave like and transparent spaces. The architectural spaces form carefully framed horizontal, picturesque views to amplify this pristine coastal setting. An elongated solid wing is positioned along the sand dunes contours while the living space is dynamically cantilevered over the flora, pointing out to the sea.

Photography by Ashley Jones-Evans

ADVERTISING AGENCY

Sydney NSW + Melbourne VIC

Australia 1997-1998

Both agency interiors were planned within high-rise buildings where the lobbies were articulated as walk-through sculptural logos. Efficient space planning optimised staff interactions, and the interiors were conceived in imaginative and budget effective ways.

Photography by Ashley Jones-Evans

Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd Architect Offices

Sydney NSW Australia1998-1999

Two glass louvered boxes are suspended within a raw converted concrete warehouse space and hang over the main studio-offices below. The boxes clad in glass louvers contain the offices conference and meeting facilities and filter light and air. The studio and work stations sit in a gallery environment surrounded by the dje art collection.

Photography by Dale Jones-Evans

Darlinghurst NSW Australia 2000-2003

A six storey commercial development forms a new city, corner building. Wrapped in a delicate, laser cut, environmental sunscreen to reduce air conditioning loads by 50% which also creates a powerful optical and iconic street presence. Designed like a painting and a sculpture its solid base is carved away to support a sun deck, the patterned facade forms an exquisite illusion of shadow and light and the architectural crown consists of an illuminated public art billboard.

Photography by

Paul Gosney & Trevor Mein

Jerusalem Israel 2007

A new campus is planned in the historic centre of the city of Jerusalem for the new academy of arts complex. The square is bifurcated allowing the old church to read between the two buildings placed either side. The site is connected with through streets which penetrate the arts academies ground public gallery spaces and underground network. The forms are clad in glass and glow at night. And stone patterned screened walls offer climate protection.

ART GALLERY

Singapore 2007

Two national heritage monuments are redesigned into Singapore’s new contemporary art gallery. A sleek modern rooftop form houses the contemporary collection. This hyper modern form is made of shimmering green obscure glass and is designed to read against the old building complimenting the copper dome. A new atrium lobby and new glazed gallery are composed between the two heritage structures. A massive glass canopy boldly marks this new entry.

ART & PLANNING

Shenzen China 2007

A huge multi use exhibition space is designed with a breathing, perforated architectural skin with usable terraces located behind and which radiates beautiful patterns of light by night. The lightweight, architectural cylindrical-core provides human circulation, air and light to inner spaces. The site’s ground plane inverts to scoop light, air and large pedestrian movements into a big, dynamic public, inner space of theatre hung pods, retail and massive, flexible, exhibition spaces all fed vertically by stacked service facilities, offices and spaces.

WAREHOUSE CONVERSION

Sydney NSW Australia 1997-1999

A former dye factory was converted into 9 residential lofts and Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd’s offices. The textures of the street surface are reflected in the reworking of the buildings façade. Spacious raw, gallery like, lofts open to the street while penthouse type apartments penetrate through the old envelope above making a new roofscape. Art works line the common corridors where the former structural elements are lit like concrete forests living within narrow but dramatic entry spaces.

Photography by Trevor Mein

Sydney NSW Australia 1999-2001

The design of this boutique mixed use development, of street front retail uses and loft apartments in Sydney’s inner city set a new benchmark for alternative loft-living spaces. It's industrial aesthetic of galvanised steel framed and transparent mesh screens and raw concrete are bold. The facades perforated metal skin, composed into terraces, shade walls and balconies are designed as environmental sun screening devices. Metalika is a rare and sought after loft apartment complex.

Photography by Paul Gosney

Pyrmont NSW Australia 2003-2005

The re-design of this massive heritage wool store into a 200-loft apartment metropolis delivered alternative housing choice including lofts, terraces, screened penthouses and roof top courtyard housing. The roof was conceived as an elevated Australian low watering parkland of grasslands, succulents and timber boardwalks, providing new bio-life and mitigating the city’s heat-sink effect. The architectures public domain of exploding orange plywood lined, concrete columned corridors and galleries are dramatic. Heritage restoration is combined with modern architecture and interiors.

Photography by John Gollings

Aireys Inlet Victoria Australia 2006-2007

A modest project home along Victoria’s surf coast is sited to permit another dwelling on the block. The L plan forms a court for children to play while parents have full observation from the interior. A smart black corrugated iron skin contains the crisp white inner gallery walls and stained black floors defy all description of a project home. It is replete with water storage for bushfire and solar gas boosted heating, shaded eaves and cross ventilation of all rooms.

Photography by Dale Jones-Evans

Pyrmont NSW Australia 2006-2008

A new interior is inserted into the three storey volume of this roof top wharf penthouse overlooking Sydney Harbor and the city. A stunning new plunge pool with internal windows is sunken into the roof and mezzanine floor. Visible from inside it glows at night while the interior is made of white painted solid timber boards, superb timber floors and white marbled sheets for all bathrooms. This high quality interior houses state of the art technology for home theatre, sound, bars and general entertainment.

Photography by Dale Jones-Evans

Sydney NSW Australia 1995-2001

2002 Belle House of the Year

2002 RAIA Commendation Award

A traditional terrace was opened up horizontally and vertically to permit the climate, natural air and light to flow through. This also allowed clean sight lines which created the optical illusion of a bigger site. A dramatic internal light well floods light into a vertical stack of glass walled bathrooms next to a floating staircase. The living spaces look out to a mysterious, sculpturally screened pavilion, which floats over a black, grotto-like swimming pool.

Photography by

Paul Gosney & John Gollings

Sydney NSW Australia 2001-2005

Two copper clad mounds rise up and out of the sand-dunal landforms of coastal suburban Bronte to form a family house. The mounds open up at their eastern and northern ends and breathe with the climate through a series of in-out living spaces. The mounds rest on a solid, raw, podium, that is sunken into the landform and houses the entry, kids sleeping quarters and services.

Photography by Dale Jones-Evans

Sydney NSW Australia 1998-1999

2002 Dulux Residential

Interior Colour Award

The design of a curvilinear form wraps through the loft apartment to form a seamless series of gallery spaces, which also become bedrooms and living spaces. A dynamic floating staircase was designed to elevate the user up to the sky and upper living levels. The roof terrace sunroom is framed by an enclosure of beautifully detailed natural bamboo screens. The colour schemes off-white to off black is dramatic.

Melbourne VIC Australia 1987-1990

1991 RAIA National Robyn Boyd Award Most outstanding domestic Architecture

1991 RAIA Victoian Merit Award for Outstanding Architecture

A series of strung out pavilions, cantilevered and suspended rooms are assembled around a series of designed courtyard –gardens. The central spine made of bridges connect the spaces through a journey of vistas and voids.

Photography by Trevor Mein

KOWANYAMA

CULTURAL & ARTS CENTRE

Cape York QLD Australia 2007-2010

A new aboriginal arts centre and museum is sited along the banks of an exquisite billabong. The architectures sinuous form slides its way along the billabongs soft sand banks. A continuous screened perimeter forms a deep external usable space which protects users from tropical monsoons and harsh climates. The high curved roofs make a venturi effect and dramatic exhibition spaces as well as a powerful new iconography on the landscape for this remote community.

MAGAZINE INSTALLATION

Designex 06 Darling Harbor NSW 2006

An unusual approach, to make an art installation for a trade show exhibition. Pol Oxygen’s magazine is represented through intellectual and artistic murmurs represented by the brain specimens titled in the names of the magazines contributors and subjects. The pickled brains form clinical rows of data and illuminate what is usually a pretty dull occasion.

Awards Designex 2006

Best New Product Axolotl Signature series

Honourable Mention Best Dressed Stand

An exhibition stand which represents the glass and metal finishes skills of the group Axolotil was conceived as a reflective painting housing a series of designer doors. A huge glass painting was conceived to backdrop the scene with its three way lit surfaces. Our own DJE door is also exhibited.

1992

As part of this hot head story of car maniacs we designed the quirky house in which the lead actor dwells with his strange father.

2005

Dje designed, directed, choreographed, scripted and produced a performance piece based on a human interaction set in 2050. The performers are male/female or actual/shadow and indulge in a ritual and restaurant of the future. Small foods are ingested by medical means. The performance takes place within an actual restaurant and the diners are not expecting it. It is set to an electronic score.

1992

A series of kinetic and mobile theatre sets make places complementing the unfolding story of this tale. From FJ holdens to barns and old china shops this musical weaves in and out of the sets movements.

2004

Dje hosted an evening of choreographed performances and electronic sound events in The ART WALL building.

Docklands Melbourne VIC Australia 2003

To prevent winds rotating around the corner of a tower building three incrementally growing blade walls grow from a sea of glazed pebbles. The walls are striated with a horizontal patternation of movement. The ensemble is chameleon like and takes on the public domains material language while the imagery is connected to and abstracted from this former swampland.

Melbourne VIC Australia 1985-1986

1987 RAIA Victorian Merit Award for Outstanding Architecture

A massive limestone block wall weaves its way across this open gum treed site, forming a spine of circulation around two dramatic courts. Projectile forms containing bedrooms and living rooms penetrate the landscape to create Fellini-esque architecture.

Photography by Trevor Mein

Sydney NSW Australia 2002-2003

This gently folding copper form was designed to allow the sun to enter spaces in a highly controlled way. Like an eye-lid, it tempers the searing Australian light and suns east to west path. The origami folds transform into curvaceous interior forms. As a garden pavilion, the architectural plan forms different decorative and useable courts and terraces. The new architecture explodes from a restored heritage cottage to which it is fluidly attached.

Photography by Paul Gosney