Crosby Architects

This project – an exemplary green apartment development – is for a large site in a street earmarked for higher density residential development. A small apartment building on the site precluded a successful redevelopment so it was decided to demolish it and start again, with the bricks integrated in the facade of the new design. [...]

On the outskirts of a regional town is the site for a proposed sustainable village development.

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 [...]

23 unit Apartment Building The ideas for the Pine Avenue Apartments followed on from this corner site project, which is rectangular in shape and has one long side on a laneway and its rear facing north. The proposal was to create one-bedroom, open-plan units on the first floor, with entry and car parking from the lane. [...]

Conversion of a Pub to 16 Serviced Apartments Conversion of a former Hotel to bedsit apartments. location Arden St, North Melbourne, Victoria date 2000-2003 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 [...]

5 storey apartment building with row housing The initial design for this project was as studio apartments with a ramped courtyard situated over a car park. Under instructions from the client/builder, however, it was reworked to become a slab block facing Chapel Street with a row of terraces on the rear lane. Parking was on [...]

Five Apartments The existing building was constructed of rendered brickwork and comprised one apartment per level over three levels. The design incorporates the refurbishment of the existing apartments with new balconies, and the addition of two larger apartments and a roof deck over car parking to the north. location 1 Ormond Esplanade, Elwood client Omni Property Group [...]

Apartment Building This building complex comprises one attached three-storey townhouse facing Point Ormond Reserve, four three-storey terrace houses facing Shelley Street and Robinson Gardens and two flats addressing Lytton Street. Each residence opens on to the street it addresses, without any crossovers or car parking concerns. Double garages are located at the rear and accessed [...]