MWa Musings

Architectural Renovation: When Opportunity meets Planning

Are you feeling inundated with short-term economic news that’s casting a shadow of uncertainty over your long term plans for an architectural renovation?  This quote is a great reminder that enduring success (aka “good fortune”) is often the result of perseverance and long term vision. If you are contemplating an

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Australian Georgian Renovation in Pymble: “Tynecool”

  Australian Georgian Renovation in Pymble, “Tynecool” is a gem in the heart of Ku-ring-gai Council area, and is being lovingly extended and renovated by its new family.  The “West Wing” replaces an old single storey addition with a new generous two storey wing.  It creates a north facing courtyard

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Sign a Buidling Contract with Confidence, Transparency and Trust

    MWa help clients to sign their residential building contract with confidence, transparency and trust.  As residential architects, we assist our clients at each step of the way, with advice and management, throughout all stages of the design, approvals, documentation, tendering and construction process. Signing a residential building contract

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Collaboration & Vision: Three Years in the Making

https://mwarchitects.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_8604.mp4   Collaboration & Vision: Three Years in the Making. Working with MWa. We are delighted to show off a drone video of a current MWa project.  Three years in the making and it’s almost finished. The project is a family of new agricultural buildings, set into the established landscape

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2020 The Year of Home

https://mwarchitects.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MWa-Ad.mp4   2020 The Year of Home Please watch our MWa short video showcasing a collection of built projects and projects on the drawing board from this past year. A huge thank you to everyone involved in our projects this year: our clients, consultants, builders, trades, suppliers & design colleagues.

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MAKE YOUR PLACE

  MAKE YOUR PLACE with MWa. Here’s a photograph of me in my favourite place.  (The photo is taken by my friend and neighbour, Marion Wheeler @marionwheelerphoto) It’s my bedroom and temporary-post-covid-office, and it brings me pleasure every day to use it and be in it, almost all the time

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IT’S NOT ABOUT STYLE

  When it comes to residential architecture, I say it’s not about style. I prefer to use the word character. The difference is that the character of a building or of a home, can be, just like as in people, individual, authentic and unique. Style is about something that has

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WHERE ARE WE AT, RIGHT NOW, WITH BUILDING?

Image taken on-site at a current residential alterations & addition in Sydney’s north – 27.03.20 (photo taken by the foreman and emailed to the MWa office) Where are we at, right now with building, in Sydney? I’ve had a couple of calls within the last 24 hours, to tap into

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HOME SWEET HOME: Beyond #stayathome

  Home Sweet Home: Beyond #stayathome In the past few months here in Australia, the importance of home has come to the fore of our existence, probably as many of us have never experienced. Through the bushfires, our homes under threat and in some cases lost, to our connections with

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DUAL OCCUPANCY – STRATA?

  DUAL OCCUPANCY – STRATA?   MWa are low rise, medium density, housing specialists and this includes the type of housing known as Dual Occupancy. Dual Occupancy in NSW is a type of residential land use, is defined in the model State Environmental Planning Policy and is included in local

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WHAT IS A DUAL OCCUPANCY?

  WHAT IS A DUAL OCCUPANCY?   MWa are low rise, medium density, housing specialists and this includes the type of housing known as Dual Occupancy. Dual Occupancy in NSW is a type of residential land use, is defined in the model State Environmental Planning Policy and is included in

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