Crosby Architects

A roof top addition to an existing 1970′s block of flats in Elwood, a beach suburb of Melbourne. The top floor apartment had no northern outlook for solar gain. It faced west with small windows to the east. The idea is to open up the apartment through the roof to a new living room/studio space [...]

This small house in a regional Victorian town integrates planting and prefabrication into its very core. Built on a small lot with views across the road to bush, it was designed on a tight budget and to achieve high thermal performance. This performance will be further enhanced as the planting on the north and east [...]

The redevelopment of the historic Dimmeys department store in inner Melbourne to a supermarket with apartments above.

  Designed for the Castlemaine State Festival  2009 this Eco Cubby was used as an eduction tool for primary school children to elaborate principals of sustainable habitation during workshops held during the festival. The following is a copy of the text that could be used in lessons with kids in Primary school engaged in designing an [...]

Residential Alteration A tight site in a street of workers’ cottages, this project is in the early design stage. The site steps down to the back by two metres and is east–west in orientation. Currently there is a single-storey brick building on the site and it’s yet to be decided how much of it is [...]

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. [...]

There was a proposal for a new retail development in the historic town of Castlemaine in north central Victoria. The development was inappropriate and a group of residents including Geoff Crosby decided to fight the proposal at a planning tribunal. As part of this process an alternative scheme was put forward. This scheme was designed [...]

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

Concept for a house on a sloping site around a large Iron Bark Eucalypt

Renovation to a Heritage-listed building “A single-storey picturesque Elizabethan house built in two stages between 1866 and 1869 by William Downe, architect and Castlemaine town surveyor till 1872 on land he acquired in 1866. The first known occupant was George Farroll, a watchmaker who owned the house between 1869 till his death in 1885. His [...]