Richard Cole Architecture

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Richard Cole Architecture is a small, design-based studio in Avalon Beach on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Richard Cole graduated with first-class honours in architecture from the University of Sydney and worked with Peter Stutchbury, Paul Berkemeier, Hassell and MFA before founding the practice in 1998. He also tutors at the University of Sydney.

Through its projects the studio pursues the poetics of construction and the ways in which we choose to dwell. It aims to bring excellence and rigour to design, documentation and construction, keeping the site, budget, environment and each client's needs in view throughout. Its Panorama House won contemporary design in the 2019 Waverley Heritage and Design Awards, and Foamcrest Apartments received a 2021 NSW Architecture commendation for multiple housing.

On Lunchbox, Hilltop House is a compact, steel-framed home that terraces down a steep slope above Pittwater among spotted gums, with a cantilevered driveway protecting tree roots and a restrained palette of blackbutt and jarrah.

See Hilltop House on Lunchbox below.

A Bush-Style Home for Beautiful Pittwater Site

Hilltop House is a small, carefully crafted dwelling on the steep eastern slopes of Pittwater, a waterway to the north of Sydney.