small is beautiful
Eoghan will be giving a public lecture at Sydney Build 2024 - Small is Beautiful.
'Small is beautiful' or ‘less but better’ are key architectural strategies in terms of sustainability, affordability, flexibility and also quality. Eoghan's presentation will explore these ideas and share his design methodology based on the simple principle that ideas find their form, at every scale in response to ever changing parameters. Thursday 2nd May 2024, 2PM-3PM.
More details here.
Posted 26.04.2024
development approval in marrickville
Our Development Application in Marrickville has been approved. After some negotiation with Inner West Council negotiation we agreed to lower the ridge by 300mm - it previously matched the existing ridge - but other than that the design has not changed.
More details here.
Posted 11.03.2024
News
house in kangaroo valley
New project in Kangaroo Valley.
Posted 08.01.2024
house in kangaroo valley
Some progress images.
Posted 12.07.2023
additions to a house in wollstonecraft
New dining, kitchen and parents retreat to a large house in Wollstonecraft on Sydney’s North Shore.
A large open-planned kitchen and dining room opens up the back of the house to the garden. A roof garden provides a green privacy buffer to neighbours from the parents retreat.
Posted 27.04.2023
new project in kangaroo valley
We’re super-excited to start working on a new house in Kangaroo Valley in the northern Shoalhaven. The house will be off-grid (self-sufficient regarding energy, water & sewage) so will need to respond efficiently and also sensitively to the most delicate and beautiful of environments.
Posted 29.01.2023
national commendation for public architecture
Last Thursday we were the proud and very surprised recipients of a National Commendation for Public Architecture from the Australian Institute of Architects for our cricket club in Blacktown. This category covers every public building type, from concert halls to stadiums to churches to art galleries so you can imagine how brave the jury has been to award this tough little project in the suburbs of Blacktown.
— Jury citation:
The tranquillity of the Kings Langley Cricket Club and Amenities is a delightful contribution to its community. Restrained, hardworking, humble and referencing its suburban Blacktown materiality and typology, the project makes no grand statements, but provides a beautifully crafted community building.
Purposefully sited on the oval and community interface edge, and resisting the elevated viewing platform, the composition of club facilities establishes equitable roots on the ground plane with its community. Together with the landscaping, it brings together a blended and integrated design that has been embraced by its community. The council is also to be congratulated on its purposeful vision to invest in a quality community facility.
Kings Langley Cricket Club & Amenities
Posted 08.11.2022
new project in wollstonecraft
We’re very excited to be starting significant alterations and additions to this bungalow in Wollstonecraft in North Sydney.
Posted 15.09.2022
aia awards jury visit the klcc
We’re honoured that the Kings Langley Cricket Club & Amenities has been shortlisted in the Public Architecture category of the NSW Australian Institute of Architecture Awards. The jury came out this morning for a snoop. The tray of half-time oranges is just out of view. We’re competing with projects by some wonderful firms including Candalepas Associates, TZG and Kerstin Thompson Architects.
Kings Langley Cricket Club & Amenities
Posted 30.03.2022
bingie
House Bingie has been photographed and we’re blown away by some of these aerial images by Matt Horspool. More details here: House Bingie
Posted 17.02.2022
9 apartments in randwick
An early sketch for a new development site in Randwick. This scheme yields 6 x 3-bedroom, 3 x 1-bedroom apartments and 12 parking spaces on a 700M2 site.
Posted 13.09.2021
active playground & amenities at coogee public school
We conducted a walk-through this week for the Member for Coogee, Dr Marjorie O'Neill. There has been a lot of progress and enthusiasm as our proposal for a new active playground, amenities and shade structure generates momentum amongst the broader community. The school is listed as a heritage item under Council’s LEP, so sensitivity is required in editing the existing context and introducing three new elements that will hopefully transform a sloping bitumen surface and tired amenities into a flexible, horizontal play area and gathering space, naturally-ventilating, light-filled accessible amenities and shade structure linking them with the existing buildings.
Posted 29.04.2021
12 studio-apartments in randwick
Early days on a new housing project in Randwick exploring development options for the site. This one yields 12 studio apartments on a 370M2 site.
Posted 10.05.2021
house bingie II featured in DMARGE article
“One of your foremost considerations, especially in the harsh Australian climate, should be how the property interacts with the elements.”
Article: Be the architect, real estate agent and house shopper all rolled into one
Project details : House Bingie II
Posted 20.02.2021
progress at blacktown
The team from contractor’s Dezign are finishing off the blackbutt battens that line the walls of the function room. They have set out the battens on an ingenious little cnc-routed template to get the spacing perfect. We’re told it will be finished in around three weeks which is very exciting.
More details here: KLCC
Posted 14.10.2020
public lecture at sydney opera house
Eoghan was honoured to talk at Sydney Opera House about one of his favourite topics - Jørn Utzon, where his ideas came from and how they materialised architecturally.
It was an online event celebrating Jørn Utzon on World Architecture Day with a distinguished panel that included Abbie Galvin (NSW Government Architect), Bobbie Bayley (MADE alumna), Peter Mould (former NSW Government Architect) and Tim Horton (Commissioner, architect & host).
See: Making History & Shaping Tomorrow
Posted 12.10.2020
progress at bingie
Things are taking shape at Bingie. The high-level windows face north for deep winter sun penetration whilst also catching cool summer breezes. Meanwhile, internal views are framed by two wide, low, horizontal concrete apertures that orient west and south east.
More details here: House Bingie II
Posted 17.07.2020
progress at blacktown
Things are taking shape in Blacktown. The brickies have been and gone and done such a beautiful job.
More details here: KLCC
Posted 28.08.2020
guiding architects symposium in glasgow
Eoghan attended the 2020 Guiding Architects Symposium in Glasgow held over 5 days in February. It was a chance to discover some amazing contemporary architecture and share the dark art of analysing and communicating urban patterns and contemporary architecture with like-minded colleagues.
In hindsight we should have been freaking out about the pandemic and what it meant for us all.
Huge thanks to our warm and wonderful archi-hosts Dress for the Weather.
Posted 26.02.20
housing affordability tour
Eoghan created three, three-hour architectural tours for the 2019 Sydney Architecture Festival on the topic of housing affordability and housing innovation in Sydney. If housing affordability in Sydney was the question then the answer was a definitive ‘you’ve got to be kidding!’ As we explored this topic on foot the conversation criss-crossed territory political, fiscal, cultural and of course architectural as we plucked out exemplary back-lane renovations, social housing, infill developments as well as major mixed-use projects seeking out innovative new ideas and approaches.
More details here: 2019 SAF and here
Posted 12.11.2019
finalising details for the klcc
Tender drawings for the Kings Langley Cricket Club are complete. The interior of the club room shown above. There are clues externally but we hope that entering this room will be a lovely surprise for the cricketing and local community. The light scoop brings in a little northern light and helps ventilate the space during summer months, while the roof has a low brim to wards the oval.
More details here: KLCC
Posted 22.05.2019
unsw lectures: practise reflections on joern utzon
Eoghan presented two lectures to UNSW Masters students on the work of our practice in light of lessons learnt from Jørn Utzon. We shared six of our projects - three realised, two underway and one speculative. Perhaps you can guess which ones? Anyone who has followed our research into Utzon’s work and design methodology which we share through the Sydney Architecture Walks and through teaching would understand the enormous debt we owe to the great master.
Posted 09.01.2019
walking, guiding and practise
As an architect who guides, I often frame the tours we do as a kind of public research project; the public side of a private practice. But this is disingenuous and devalues the contribution guiding makes to practise. So how does guiding relate to practise; how does guiding sharpen our work as architects?
More here: Walking, Guiding and Practise
Posted 27.09.2018
development approval at blacktown
Rigorous and carefully considered design development, in close consultation with Council and our client Cricket Australia mean we now have all our approvals for Kings Langley Cricket Club. A big thanks to the project team from Blacktown Council and our team of sub-consultants for all their hard work and efforts on this challenging project.
More here: Kings Langley Cricket Club
Posted 30.06.2018
progress at bingie
Great progress on our barn refurbishment at Bingie. It’s almost unrecognisable now with it’s new hardwood skin, roof with deep protective eaves and external sliding spotted gum windows and screens.
More details here: House: Bingie I
Posted 11.12.2018
eco-tourism development in bingie
We were awarded the lead design consultant role for this exciting refurbishment project in Bingie, five-hours drive south of Sydney.
An existing house and barn on a dramatic headland site will be converted into an eco-tourism development and occasional weekender for our wonderful clients Chris and Nat.
More details here: House: Bingie
Posted 16.05.2016
progress at blacktown
Eoghan presented two design options for the Kings Langley Cricket Club in Pearce Reserve, Blacktown. This single-storey option (shown above) separates the change rooms and club room into two adjacent pavilions. Bleacher seating connects the two pavilions and uses the slope of the site to create an informal grandstand. Deep eaves create sheltered spaces for the public whether the building is open or shut.
More here: Kings Langley Cricket Club
Posted 08.09.2016
public lecture
Eoghan will be presenting the Kings Langley Cricket Club and Amenities at Becoming Blacktown - a free event hosted by Blacktown City Council on Wednesday 20 March 2024.
Posted 05.03.2024
additions in marrickville
Development Application submitted for significant additions to an early 20th Century bungalow in Marrickville. We have spent almost a year with our client striving to unlock the sites potential and achieve a design that suits a young family’s living and sustainability requirements.
Posted 22.11.2023
houses awards
We are thrilled to have been shortlisted in two categories in the 2023 Houses Awards for our house in Bingie in regional NSW. More details here
Posted 05.05.2023
bingie shortlisted
Thrilled that Chris & Nat’s home in Bingie has been shortlisted in the NSW AIA Awards. More details here.
Posted 08.03.2023
bird hide in the snowy valleys
We have finished documenting a family of small public buildings in the towns of Tumut and Tumbarumba for Snowy Valleys Council. This one is a bird hide in Pioneer Park, Tumut that will sit shrouded by trees and aquatic plants in a JILA wetland.
More details here.
Posted 28.01.2023
urban regeneration: small public spaces in the inner west
Eoghan, Justine Anderson (Sam Crawford Architects) and Imogene Potter (Potter & Wilson) will be discussing some recent projects at Marrickville Library on Wednesday 16 November at Architecture Street: Urban Regeneration: Small Public Spaces in the Inner West.
Details and booking here — it’s free!
Posted 08.11.2022
the nsw aia awards
We are absolutely thrilled to have won the Architecture Award in the Public Architecture category of the 2022 NSW Australian Institute of Architects awards.
— Jury citation:
The Kings Langley Cricket Club & Amenities building is a considered public building in an everyday suburban context.
Eoghan Lewis Architects has masterfully maximised the opportunities embodied in a series of site constraints and used these to raise the ambition of the project. Nestled on the edge of the oval, a requirement to avoid underground services broke a longer singular building into a finer grained cluster of buildings, each with their own address to the pitch. Drawing on the surrounding context of free-standing brick buildings with pitched roofs, textured brickwork walls and screens create a robust yet sensitive materiality whilst pitched internal forms have created interiors of individuality for each room.
This is a project of civic distinction appropriate to its place delivered with a great degree of care and thought, creating a rich, warm, and highly appropriate public architecture.
Kings Langley Cricket Club & Amenities
Posted 01.07.2022
approval in annandale
Our Development Application for residential alterations and additions to a weatherboard cottage on Nelson Street, Annandale has been approved
The site falls almost 5 metres down to the rear (east). Balancing heritage concerns, we are developing a courtyard, split-level typology to keep the building height down, bring sunlight deep into the dwelling and maximise the relationship between house and garden.
Posted 15.09.2021
approval in kingsford
Our Complying Development application for two-storey additions to a Californian bungalow has been approved on Maitland Avenue, Kingsford.
The original roof has been kept in its entirety, the floor plan beneath adjusted slightly to prioritise the relationship of kitchen and living spaces to the garden. Stepped seating connects the lower level with the new upper level creating three distinct garden experiences.
Posted 10.09.2021
10 apartments in randwick
Early days on a new apartment project in Randwick exploring development options for the site. This one yields 8 x studio and 2 x 1-bedroom apartments on a 370M2 site.
Posted 10.06.2021
kings langley cricket club
Eoghan took in a game this weekend to watch the mighty Kings Langley Cricket Club play the Kellyville Supersonics at Pearce Reserve. Can’t tell you how lovely it was to experience the building as a working building inside and out and chat to some of the parents.
Posted 06.03.2021
offical opening of the kings langley cricket club
A lovely evening enjoying the building in ‘event’ mode for the official opening of the Kings Langley Cricket Club & Amenities.
Much more than just a cricket club, this project creates a public room, public amenities and home and away change rooms for the local community and local sporting clubs. What I like the most is the way the building sits confidently and comfortably in the landscape and feels deeply rooted to ground. It feels solid and it feels generous, two important attributes for public buildings.
Enormous thanks and gratitude to the talented ELA staff and collaborators Jason Goh and Nick Woolley as well as our extended family of consultants, contractors and clients.
Project details here: KLCC
Posted 15.02.2021
active playground and amenities at coogee public school
Updated scheme for a new 'active playground’, amenities upgrade and shelter was presented to the schools P&C group.
The proposal cuts a horizontal playing surface and amphitheatre steps into a sloping bitumen surface. Existing amenities are upgraded, enlarged and re-roofed so they ventilate naturally and sunlight will filter through fine timber battens.
Posted 02.02.2021
unsw lecture
Eoghan gave a lecture to Masters of Architecture students at the University of New South Wales that focused on the design methodology of Opera House architect Jørn Utzon.
Posted 02.09.2020
progress at blacktown
The brickwork is complete and the roofs have gone on at the Kings Langley Cricket Club and amenities in Blacktown.
More details here: KLCC
Posted 06.07.2020
the jigsaw chair has been getting a spin
I love it when this chair falls apart as it invariably becomes something else when it’s reassembled. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
More details here: EL1 Jigsaw Chair
Posted 10.04.2020
progress at bingie
The zinc roof is on at Bingie. It’s an exciting moment in a project when the roof goes on as you can really feel the spaces as well as some of the building/landscape relationships we were striving for.
This sheltered terrace faces west. You can see how the eaves, clad in charred timber act like the deep brim of a hat. Should be a great place to enjoy sunset with a cold beer.
More details here: House Bingie II
Posted 13.04.2020
cricket club under construction
The Kings Langley Cricket Club and amenities in Blacktown is under construction. It was a rainy day so we spent most of the time in the site shed discussing brick details.
More details here: KLCC
Posted 03.03.2020
californian condos
We have been given an amazing opportunity to design an apartment building on a sensitive coastal site south of Los Angeles. The site contains 24 heritage cottages and a nine metre high landscaped bluff along with loads of coastal environmental issues. We’re exploring an above-ground parking typology due to water table and sea level rise issues hidden behind a breathable hardwood screen. The geometry of the timber screen and the roof forms above quietly relate to the rhythm of cottages on the site. We’re going for a strong, monumental form that is warm and intimate at the same time.
More details here: Carpe Diem
Posted 21.09.2019
cricket club moving ahead
We are resolving the design of the Kings Langley Cricket Club in Blacktown. It will be a tough little building assembled from materials familiar to the area - but with an architectural twist! Key functions have been separated into two pavilions. The ‘home and away’ change rooms are in the pavilion to the left; the club room and canteen in the other one. The light scoop roofs ventilate the change rooms passively while the north facing light scoop on the club room brings in northern light.
More details here: KLCC
Posted 15.03.2019
architeam award
We’re chuffed that Sydney Architecture Walks was awarded first prize in the Contribution and Innovation category of the national ArchiTeam awards.
“These walks and tours draw the wider population into an experienced discourse, and provide people with new insights and ways of looking at both every day and special urban environments.”
- Jury Citation | ArchiTeam Awards
More details here: Sydney Architecture Walks
Posted 28.11.2018
lecture for architeam
Eoghan presented one recent project as part of Architeam’s lecture series focusing on contemporary Australian architecture. Thanks to Hill Thalis Architecture & Urbanism for hosting.
Posted 13.04.2018
office fitout in canberra
We presented our interior concept for a design thinking company in Canberra. What a challenge to create identity and warmth in a bland and generic commercial space while supercharging a very particular set of work practices.
Posted 18.08.2015
sydney architecture walks named as one of the world's 10 best architecture walking tours
Along with tours from Bilbao, Tokyo, Miami, Brasilia, Chandigarh and Phnom Penh - we were thrilled to be on this list - and by the Guardian UK what’s more!
The Sydney Architecture Walks are the research side of our practice. Since September 2000 we have been celebrating, analysing, critiquing, attacking, exploring and sharing the city as architects, witnesses and citizens with the general as well as the not so general public.
More details here: The Guardian: 10 of the best architecture tours
Posted 21.09.2015
tour of kings langley cricket club
A tour of our cricket club and amenities project at Blacktown with a nice group of Western Sydney University architecture students. Loads of questions afterwards which is always nice.
More details here.
Posted 21.02.2024
additions in marrickville
Finalising Inner West Council DA drawings.
Posted 02.10.2023
goldfields amenities
Excited about our new family of amenities for Snowy Valleys Council (best Council name ever) in regional NSW. This one is in Goldfields Park, Tumbarumba.
Posted 01.05.2023
house in kangaroo valley
Exploring options for a new house in Kangaroo Valley that will be self-sufficient in terms of water, energy and sewage.
The house is arranged around a garden courtyard and high-level windows that allows winter sun deep into the living spaces. The smaller structure to the left is a garage and workshop that also contains an ‘outdoor room’ for work but also for play.
Posted 20.02.2023
well that was weird but also wonderful
Just finished the 2nd of two midnight World Architecture Festival zoom-presentations to colleagues in Porto. Our clients, who were there sent us this photo.
In the Sport Architecture Category our cricket club in Blacktown immediately followed Populous’ presentation of their 132,000-seat Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad , India - the largest stadium in the world. This pic was taken at precisely the moment one of the jury asked if I had considered ‘making the building larger so it would have more presence’. In case you’re wondering - that’s not my brain exploding - it’s a posy of daisies on the mantelpiece.
Posted 02.12.2022
world architecture festival
Pretty excited that Kings Langley Cricket Club has been shortlisted for two awards at the 2022 World Architecture Festival. Worldwide, it was one of 11 projects shortlisted in the Sport category and one of only 8 projects shortlisted in Small Projects.
Kings Langley Cricket Club & Amenities
Posted 15.09.2022
new project in marrickville
We’re very excited to be starting significant alterations and additions to this early 20thC bungalow in Marrickville in Sydney’s inner-west.
The challenge will be to keep the beautiful qualities and feel of the original house, while modernising it into a home for a young and growing family. Additions will need to work hard to unlock the relationship between house and a steeply sloping garden to the rear.
Posted 07.06.2022
two new projects at the base of kosciuszko
Excited to be starting two new amenities projects in the Snowy Valleys. Both projects have flooding issues to respond to along with the normal suite of design challenges.
Posted 01.10.2021
los angeles cottage interior
Concept rendering for a new interior of a beach-side cottage in Los Angeles. The historic cottage is one of 23 that sit in front of our Carpe Diem project.
Related details here: Carpe Diem
Posted 28.07.2021
apartment fitout in bondi
We added a layer of functionality and warmth to an art deco apartment in Bondi that looks for storage opportunities here and there whilst making spatial relationships richer.
Posted 11.06.2021
progress at bingie
Remaining windows will be installed over coming weeks - then the joinery. The rooms feel like rooms now and the building is sitting very nicely in its context. The black cladding is charred timber, a Japanese technique called Shou Sugi Ban whereby the carbon acts as a first line of defence helping the timber naturally patina and age with minimal maintenance.
More details here: House Bingie II
Posted 16.02.2021
additions to a house in ashfield
Concept sketch for a new project in Ashfield.
Posted 18.02.2021
cricket club nearing completion
Our robust little family of pavilions for the Kings Langley Cricket Club is almost complete. Our client have the keys and the next game they play at the ground it should be open. Pearce Reserve, Blacktown.
KLCC fixtures schedule here
Project details here
Posted 03.02.2021
progress at bingie
The zinc roof of the main pavilion stretches out to the two main views - this one to the south east.
More details here: House Bingie II
Posted 02.10.2020
wsu lecture
Along with Jon Jacka, Eoghan discussed the Kings Langley Cricket Club with architecture students at the Western Sydney University.
Project details here: KLCC
Posted 08.09.2020
carpe diem
Developing the interiors at our Californian condo project. Managed to squeeze into the renders an Utzon lamp and our EL:2 table.
More details here: Carpe Diem
Posted 02.02.2020
progress at blacktown
The brickwork is going up at the Kings Langley Cricket Club and amenities in Blacktown. The inside of the brick bakes at a different temperature and so the colour retains the red in the clay. By bolster-cutting the bricks and turning them rough-face out we continue the patterning of the hit &miss brickwork adjacent but at the same time it gives the wall a richness of colour and texture.
More details here: KLCC
Posted 28.05.2020
sydney architecture walks promo video
Our aim with this short video was to capture the spirit of our side love-project - the Sydney Architecture Walks. Engaging, fun and inspiring city tours based on a deep understanding for contemporary Sydney. The bushfire smoke suffocating the city adds a dystopian, apocalyptic dimension. Made by Chilean filmmaker Ernesto Ortiz. I hope you enjoy it.
More details here: Sydney Architecture Walks
Posted 16.01.2020
californian condos
We’re putting the finishing touches on our design for 23 apartments on a coastal site in California. This image shows one of four entries that connect clusters of six single-storey apartments. Each cluster shares a roof terrace and has views over and between two rows of heritage cottages.
More details here: Carpe Diem
Posted 10.11.2019
new project in california
We have been commissioned to explore the development potential of this iconic and sensitive site in California. Our wonderful client has asked us to observe all planning constraints, keep as many of the two cottage rows that we can and maintain the neighbours ocean views. The landscape bluff is also a protected feature. This is going to be such a nice challenge for us; new scale, new context and loads of new problems to resolve through great design!
More details here: Carpe Diem
Posted 10.08.2019
university of sydney lecture on utzon
Eoghan gave a lecture to USYD Masters of architecture students on his favourite topic, the work of Danish architect Joern Utzon. He was graciously allowed to finish with three projects by the studio that were inspired by the great man.
See: Eco Prefab I, Eco Prefab II and SOH Ticketing Booths and Visitor Information Centre (shown).
Posted 10.04.2019
EL2 coffee table
We have stepped up to 1:2 (50%) scale in the development of our EL2 Coffee Table. Pretty exciting as it feels like a prototype more than a model.
For the architect, every building is a prototype but there is no chance to apply learnings on the same project - instead they get shifted to follow-up projects. So it’s a treat to be able to refine this piece of furniture with every shift in scale as new possibilities but also new problems are encountered.
More details here: EL2 Coffee Table
Posted 19.12.2018
resolving bingie
We’re deep into documentation at Bingie and starting to resolve key material relationships and refine the detailing. This room is oriented to the west to capture a key view and create a deep, sheltered window seat to enjoy the setting sun.
More details here: House: Bingie II
Posted 18.01.2018
guiding architects symposium in budapest
Eoghan attended the Guiding Architects Symposium in Budapest as part of his work with Sydney Architecture Walks. On the way home he passed through Barcelona and Munich for a little R+D(+R).
O'Donnell + Tuomey’s George Soros funded Central European University pictured.
Posted 01.03.2018
bingie ecotourism has been approved by eurobodalla council
Bingie has now been approved. Three of these four structures are existing - one of which has been cut in half to create a garden court. It is a 'cluster scheme of informal buildings defining courtyards and setting up particular relationships to landscape.
More details here: House: Bingie II
Posted 18.09.2017
architecture on show lecture
Eoghan presented House: Tempe as part of Marrickville Council’s Architecture on Show series.
Posted 07.10.2015
singapore archifest
Eoghan was one of six keynote speakers at Archifest in Singapore during the World Architecture Festival. The theme of the symposium was "Small is Beautiful".
Posted 01.10.2014