About our aspirations
Glyde_Bautovich are architects, urban designers and planners who work together and separately to transform resources, regulations, programs, and ideas into places of beauty.
We believe in the ‘spirit of place’ or genius loci and passionately engage in the art of making meaningful places of distinctive character through a careful process.
We research and analyse client aspirations, economics, demographics, urban structure, history, building typologies and appropriate precedents.
We re-use and revisit these layers that are beneath the surface to inform an appropriate outcome.
The place becomes a palimpsest set within its context.
The experience of the public space, what makes the city or place stick together, becomes rich, activated and vital.
Our analysis feeds into the architectural process which becomes form driven whereby we mould the fabric of the building to engage with nature, capture light and air, in a way that we know will lead to joyful inhabitation.
We breath in information, aspirations and breath out a new space or building as an offering to the people of the city and those who occupy them.
About our aspirations
Glyde_Bautovich are architects, urban designers and planners who work together and separately to transform resources, regulations, programs, and ideas into places of beauty.
We believe in the ‘spirit of place’ or genius loci and passionately engage in the art of making meaningful places of distinctive character through a careful process.
We research and analyse client aspirations, economics, demographics, urban structure, history, building typologies and appropriate precedents.
We re-use and revisit these layers that are beneath the surface to inform an appropriate outcome.
The place becomes a palimpsest set within its context.
The experience of the public space, what makes the city or place stick together, becomes rich, activated and vital.
Our analysis feeds into the architectural process which becomes form driven whereby we mould the fabric of the building to engage with nature, capture light and air, in a way that we know will lead to joyful inhabitation.
We breath in information, aspirations and breath out a new space or building as an offering to the people of the city and those who occupy them.
McGill Street Apartments
Lewisham, Sydney
Glyde_Bautovich were commissioned for architectural and interior design services by our client to design a 60 unit apartment building in Sydneys inner west. This infill site has two street frontages and sits within a precinct that has recently had its density controls increased by Marrickville Council (now Inner west Council). It is located 100m away from Lewisham West Station and has good access to parks and local shopping areas.
Our client is a builder developer who specialises in manufacturing building components from recycled bricks, timber and steel. They have a strong affinity with raw materials and one of the reasons we were commissioned was for our own love of these materials.
Our conceptual framework was driven by using these materials in the most authentic way, by expressing the way in which the materials are constructed and letting the pre-loved integrity become the feature of the design.
Our design for the interiors of the apartments clearly expresses the warm robustness of these materials and is an aesthetic in keeping with the spirit of the inner west of Sydney.
