Our Walla Mulla and Bourke Street Parks [with Terragram] are featured in an eight page story  in ‘Landscape World ‘ magazine # 74 from Korea.

“Green Walls Green Roofs” arrived in the office today with a six page spread on the green roof of Seacliff House.

The book features projects from all over the world and demonstrates how these living structures help absorb rainwater, provide insulation and lower temperatures while creating a habitat for natural flora and fauna. http://www.imagespublishing.com

Our plans for new living and entertaining areas for a house in Sydney’s south have been approved by the local council. The existing house overlooks a beautiful bay on the George’s River. But it is poorly located on the site with no connection to the garden or the river beyond. Continue reading →

Our Bourke Street Park has been long-listed in the 2014 World Architecture News Landscape Awards.

Winner announced on 2 December 2014!

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The beautiful big boxed book ‘Atlas of World Landscape Architecture’ features our Walla Mulla Park designed with Terragram. There are 350 other projects from across the globe in the book which “all … provide ecologically  and socially intact living spaces”.
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Our design for a new home in Sydney’s northern beaches has been approved by Council. The house, for a young couple and their future family, is perched high on an escarpment looking east over the sea. The steep site is surrounded by majestic eucalyptus trees. Continue reading →

CEA won FOUR Sydney Design Awards in 2013. Two awards were given to Seacliff House – one for ‘Residential – New’ and one for ‘Residential – Interiors’ And Walla Mulla Park won ‘Landscape Design’ (Terragram with CEA) and ‘Design Team – Small’. And we’re also the ‘best of the best’: Chris Elliott Architects: ‘Best Design Studio’ Continue reading →

Apparently Franz Kafka called Prague “a city of stability in turmoil.” In December I gave a talk ‘The city in turmoil: the view from the other side’ in Prague with colleague Vladimir Sitta of Terragram. The talk explored how our Antipodean experience could contribute to future urban forms.. The talk to students and architects was at the Čvut Faculty of Architecture.

We won two BPN awards for Walla Mulla and Bourke Street Parks.
Landscape: Winner
Public buildings and urban design: Highly commended Continue reading →

Seacliff House was one of nine international residential projects shortlisted for the World Interior News Awards 2013. I attended the Awards Dinner at the Saatchi Gallery in London on 28th November. Continue reading →