It moves. It shifts. It changes the mood of a room through the day, warm and low in the morning, bright and honest at noon, golden and quiet by late afternoon.
When we design, we chase that. We think about which rooms earn the morning light and which ones deserve the evening. We orient, we angle, we consider the eaves.
Artificial light has its place, and we love a considered lighting scheme. But it's always the complement, never the substitute.
The best rooms don't just have good lighting. They have good light.
What does the light do in your home throughout the day?
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Some clients arrive with a brief. Others arrive with a vision. And occasionally, someone walks through a door and sees not what a building is, but everything it was and everything it could be again.
This was one of those clients.
Craigellachie is a c1873 Italianate Victorian residence, built in two stages, classified by the National Trust and largely unchanged since Victorian days. Twenty two rooms. Ornate 15ft ceilings. Intricate tessellated tiles. Baltic pine floors. Eleven marble mantelpieces. Stained glass windows. A two level observation tower. A sprawling return verandah.
When we first walked through it, the word that kept coming back was romantic. Dilapidated, yes. In need of enormous care and attention. But romantic in the way that only a building with genuine bones and a genuine story can be. The kind of place that asks something of you.
The client understood that immediately. They came not to reinvent it but to honour it. To breathe new life into something that had been quietly waiting. The brief was glamorous and generous. A sophisticated family home with the space and warmth to entertain beautifully, and enough room that the children would never want to leave.
What made this project truly special was the team that came together around it. Flack Studio, Connect Plus, Florian Wild and Basis Builders worked tirelessly with the care and craft a building like this demands. Collaboration in the truest sense of the word, every discipline present, every voice genuinely in play.
This is what heritage work is really about. Not preservation for its own sake, but the belief that a building's story is worth continuing. That the right family, the right vision, and the right team can return something extraordinary to its former glory without dimming a single thing that made it special.
Craigellachie is magnificent. It always was.
#kisterarchitects #melbournearchitect #craigellachie #heritagerenovation
This recently completed adaptive reuse project saw the transformation of an underperforming industrial site into a new showroom, infill industrial tenancies and prime retail space, all of which is now fully leased.
After sitting underperforming for a number of years, Connect Plus undertook a detailed analysis of the property, provided clear strategic advice, and delivered the works end-to-end to transform it into a high-yielding asset for our interstate client.
More details to come, but feel free to reach out if you’d like to discuss how we transformed this site.
Great to see @upproperty ’s work at @morris_moor featured in Green Street News, with a thoughtful piece by Larry Schlesinger highlighting the long-term vision behind one of Melbourne’s leading adaptive reuse projects.
Connect Plus has been involved from day one as development managers, supporting strategy, feasibility, design, tender and delivery. It’s been a privilege to help bring this complex transformation to life.
If you're exploring regeneration opportunities, we’d be happy to share our experience — or walk you through the precinct.
Great progress at our Springvale project.
Precast panels going up on our latest factorette development. Transforming unused space into valuable industrial units at this busy intersection. Delighted to help our client maximise their site's potential with more rentable space.
Designed: @dgd_architects
Built: @gardconstructions
Client Representative: @hallchadwick_
Shoreham Holiday House
What started with finding the right piece of land, building the consultant team and managing the project, has resulted in a breathtaking coastal retreat. The single-level design, striking pool area and considered landscaping combine to create a peaceful space that the family is already enjoying this summer.
Designed: @olena.maccallum.architect@ewert_leaf
Built: @bernie_everett_building
Engineering: @measure.engineering
Landscape Design: @plume__studio
Landscape Build: @pmllandscapes
Pool Build: @iconpoolsaustralia
Photos: @marniehawson
Morris Moor has been awarded the 2024 UDIA Urban Renewal Award. A true testament to our client Up Property and all of our consultants.
Visit our LinkedIn page to learn the three key principles that helped transform a 50,000sqm factory into an award-winning adaptive reuse workplace precinct.
Morris Moor Building 4 has been nominated for a @udiavictoria Urban Renewal Award.
Congratulations to our visionary client, @upproperty and the whole project team.
181 Moorabool
Client: @upproperty
Designed: @madeforstudio
Built: @lyonsconstruction_
181 Moorabool is the new architectural landmark in the heart of Geelong. With approx. 3300sqm of lettable area, this five-level building upgrade is an adaptive reuse of a former 2 level office arcade and will be Barwon Health’s hub for a range of mental health services for Geelong and its’s surrounds.
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