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Bayview Apartment
Bayview Apartment
Elizabeth Bay, Australia
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Bayview Apartment
Elizabeth Bay, Australia
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2010
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
Bayview Apartment is a two bedroom unit located on the fourth floor of a ten-storey mid-1960s block in Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay. The rectangular plan is bound on the eastern long side by full height glazing to all rooms, with expansive views over Rushcutters Park. A common rear wall forms the boundary to the lift lobby to the west.
The conceptual framework involved rejuvenating a tired and aging apartment by removing the separation between domestic living and domestic work, and reconnecting the space with its external environment. Two key moves – demolishing the wall separating the living and kitchen spaces and reorienting the kitchen – created a large and light open plan living zone.
A continuous staggered pattern of large square floor tiles links every room, creating an impression of one contiguous space. Timber veneer joinery extends the full length of the western wall, counterbalanced by sheer curtains sweeping around the other three sides. This glowing, translucent fabric allows the couple to moderate their engagement with the street below, and to extend the apartment towards the hilly eastern horizon to borrow light and space.
Finished in a palette of subdued, warm whites, the living space becomes the backdrop for the new joinery insertions on one side and the leafy view outside. The generous kitchen bench is the family hearth. Its juxtaposed cruciform arrangement of white polyurethane and dark timber is conceived as a sculptural element, with a mirrored splashback reflecting light and glimpses of the eastern skyline and harbour into the apartment.
The conceptual framework involved rejuvenating a tired and aging apartment by removing the separation between domestic living and domestic work, and reconnecting the space with its external environment. Two key moves – demolishing the wall separating the living and kitchen spaces and reorienting the kitchen – created a large and light open plan living zone.
A continuous staggered pattern of large square floor tiles links every room, creating an impression of one contiguous space. Timber veneer joinery extends the full length of the western wall, counterbalanced by sheer curtains sweeping around the other three sides. This glowing, translucent fabric allows the couple to moderate their engagement with the street below, and to extend the apartment towards the hilly eastern horizon to borrow light and space.
Finished in a palette of subdued, warm whites, the living space becomes the backdrop for the new joinery insertions on one side and the leafy view outside. The generous kitchen bench is the family hearth. Its juxtaposed cruciform arrangement of white polyurethane and dark timber is conceived as a sculptural element, with a mirrored splashback reflecting light and glimpses of the eastern skyline and harbour into the apartment.
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