Crosby Architects

  Work has begun on the renovation of a small brick cottage in the town of Newstead in Central Northern Victoria. The building is a double brick structure with corrugated iron roof. The original cottage, probably dating from the early 1860′s had four rooms with a veranda on all four sides and faced down to [...]

Architecture is now more than designing buildings. We are designing the architecture of a new web site to be called castlemainecupboard.com.au to facilitate lending and borrowing. The idea came while thinking about the books I own, books that other people may want to read, books that would not be in the local library. It is  about community [...]

Perfect Cure Creek bush huts One of a series of bush huts designed for a tender for the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to be located at Perfect Cure Creek in the Fraser National Park. The aim was to create a building that opens out into the natural environment in a way that invites [...]

The Victorian State Police Department has made application for a planning permit to the Mount Alexander Shire Council for the design of a new police station to be built in the centre of the regional Victorian town of Castlemaine. CROSBY architects as a member of the local community with expertise in the area has identified [...]

Flip Flop house, the winner of the BDAV 10 Star Challenge, designed by CROSBY architects in association with Lifehouse Design is on the cover of the latest copy of Building Product News.          

This is the design image for a proposed new police station in Castlemaine, Victoria. It has been designed by Payne Pattendon Architects and recently submitted for a planning permit. This building could be anywhere. Ironically, for a police station, it offers no passive surveillance of the street, its aspirations seem counter to those of the [...]

The inaugural 10 Star Challenge organised by the Building Designers Association of Victoria has been won by CROSBY architects in association with Lifehouse Design. The winning entry, The FLIP_FLOP House was  anounced at their awards dinner on Friday 29/07/11. The FLIP FLOP House achieves a 10 Stars Rating. This indicates that it will require no [...]

Some thoughts on small dwellings I am also currently working on the design for a small house in Castlemaine and it has made me think of the influence Walter Burley Griffin, and the Salter House in particular (see plan above), has had on my design thinking. I had a school friend in my early teens [...]

New adaptable house On the drawing board is a new house for a small lot in a regional Victorian town. I started this design before the FLIP FLOP house and it has informed that process. Now I want to take some stuff back into the design from what was learnt in the FLIP FLOP house. [...]

  Conversion of an old pub The HUB is a conversion of a historic hotel in Castlemaine to a restaurant and 14 small rooms for commercial rental. The intention of the project is that the building act as a centre for local sustainable businesses. The aim was to have relevance culturally, environmentally, economically and socially. [...]