Crosby Architects

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]