Stories

As a medium-sized, nimble design practice, APA works with a diverse range of clients, and on a diverse range of building types. For us, relationships always come first. We are very pleased that Ecowise love their new home and that they entrusted us to create a new legacy in their next chapter in the ACT. We interviewed Mark Larsen, Managing Director at Ecowise, to get their thoughts on working with APA on this project.

We are continuing to introduce you to our APA team. This time we interview Noor Fureje who is interested in evolving architectural designs that introduce new and impactful architecture to the world and creating buildings which make as little impact on the natural world as possible, yet being considerate with the material choice and how it affects the deliverability of buildings thermal comfort and efficiency.

Batemans Bay, like the whole the South Coast of NSW, is enjoying positive population growth, and generous government investment. However, ageing housing stock, and a meaningful desire to protect the Coast’s spectacular natural environment from suburban sprawl means that greater densification in already developed areas will be a key strategy to creating a better South Coast for all. Our latest small townhouse project is symptomatic of the changes that are coming in Batemans Bay.

A quick Q&A to get to know Kendall if you haven’t already had the pleasure of meeting or working with her.

Tuross Head is an historical village on the south coast of NSW with a beautiful scenic natural landscape and coastline.

Given the challenges our society has faced in recent times, psychotherapy services such as the ones Mindscape Therapy provide are invaluable for improving mental and physical well-being.

Dalmeny is one of the prettiest towns on the Australian coast. A charming community cornered between a renowned fishing lake and a huge sweep of beaches and rocky promontories; Dalmeny is the quintessential Australian coastal village.

We are proud of our Liverpool Street home project which we’ve entered in the ACT Chapter architecture awards new residence category for 2022!

On a sunny autumn day, we arrived at Alex and Soan’s beautiful home on a quiet street in a suburban neighbourhood.

We would like to introduce our newest team member at APA, Shweta Dhongde, Graduate of Architecture. We asked Shweta a few questions to help you get to know her a little better.

This interesting mixed-use project, comprising close to sixty residential apartments and ground floor retail, is located in the heart of the Queanbeyan town centre.

We sat down with the commercial architecture team leader at Adhami Pender Architecture, Angus Harker, to find out about some of his design inspirations, what it’s like to work at APA and how he started working on commercial and urban planning projects.

Located on the western foot of Black Mountain, the suburb of Aranda takes you away from the planned Canberra regime. With it’s rolling streets and Australian bush setting where the roofs of houses disappear behind the dense tree canopies.

On a chilly winter’s day we visited Lisa and Iain Gould, clients of APA whose new home was completed in December of 2019. Their single storey dwelling invites you in from the entrance as you’re greeted by an open plan living space that is embraced by natural light.

Celebrating her 5 years with Adhami Pender Architecture, we asked Marah about her career highlights so far and some of her design inspirations.

Firing Up a New Home for Research. We have been fortunate enough to partner with AMA Projects to work on the design of a unique and nationally important bushfire research laboratory.

Adhami Pender Architecture is sharing a story that’s dear to us – a collection of tales from the Baker Gardens community.