Crosby Architects

Conversion and Additions The original office building on this site was, at the time of its construction in the early 1980s, the only three-storey building in a street of small shops. In the last five years, however, some five-story residential development has occurred on the opposite side of the street. This project converts the existing [...]

10 Storey Apartment Building behind a heritage facade. The site for this building includes a heritage-listed hotel built in 1850, which has been operating as a pub since 1853, making it the oldest – and longest – licensed pub in Melbourne. The new ten-storey apartment building sits behind the existing buildings in what was once [...]

Residential Renovation Improvements to the rear of this worker’s cottage in East Melbourne included a new kitchen and bathroom, and a rear-facing deck to the first floor. location Albert St, East Melbourne date 2004 status completed

Retail, Office and Residential Redevelopment This eleven-storey office building, located on the east side of Clarence Street in Sydney’s CBD, was constructed in 1971. This project included: reconstruction of the facade, a new canopy and street level retail and entry, demolition of a rooftop plant room and conversion to three penthouse apartments. There was provision [...]

Single detatched house location Carisbrooke St, Balnarring Beach date 2001-2003 status completed

18 Storey, 67 Unit Serviced Apartment Building. This project consists of a new eighteen-storey serviced apartment building at the rear of the existing Victorian terrace house. The house will operate as a lobby and service area for the sixty-seven one- and two-bedroom apartments. The retention and refurbishment of the existing terrace house ensures that this [...]

  Office and conference building This project started as a single-storey office building to be sited on an existing car park lot in Port Melbourne next door to other, older Toyota buildings. The brief expanded, after the sketch design, to include Toyota Finance on a second level. The final design incorporates a walled courtyard, dining [...]

New House This was a design exercise of Geoff’s for some land he owned in northern Victoria. The central idea was to work around a rock wall, which created two hearths and defined all the spaces. The other idea was to capture rain in a wing-like roof and create an expressive form out of simple [...]

Residential Renovation Alterations & additions to a two storey brick terrace house location Hotham St, East Melbourne date 2001 status completed

8 Apartments The client wished to develop this site as an ideal example of affordable sustainable housing. The site is narrow and flanked by three-story apartments that restrict sunlight. The solution was to create single-storey, one-bedroom courtyard units on the ground floor and above this two-storey, two-bedroom units, with access to roof decks. Bricks from [...]