Sibling Architecture

Earlier this month, we brought the whole team together for a Sibling strategy day - a chance to reflect on our journey together so far, discuss what we stand for and design the future of our practice.
Thank you to the incredible , who we’ve been working with since day one, for helping us with this valuable milestone day; and to the for hosting us.

We are pleased to be sharing some of our process in designing for specialist schools as part of Old School/New School a event next Wednesday 19th October.
Amelia Borg, co-director of will be speaking at this virtual panel ‘Get Smart: Designing Spaces for All Learning Capabilities’.
Pictured is our Wangaratta District Specialist School, Benalla Campus on Yorta Yorta country will start on site at the end of this year!
Link in bio for event details.

Construction progress on site at our new Box Hill North Primary School project 🦺🦺 Playful parapets, skylights reaching for the sky and l’orange window frames all work together to create a welcoming presence to the community and a new identity to the school.

Just opened is the .international flagship store on Oxford St Paddington!
We designed this earlier in the year when air travel became a reality again; drawing on references from the transit lounges, walkways and terminals of airports decades past ✈️✈️✈️
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We are searching for a highly motivated project architect with 7+ years experience to join our Melbourne studio!

You will be leading and coordinating a range of projects from educational and civic buildings to urban design, residential architecture, research and exhibition design. Check the link in bio for a job description and application details.
Applications open until Friday, September 9th 2022.

Progress on our delicious brick layer cake at Wangaratta District Specialist School 🍰

As we peel back the layers of the Darebin Civic Centre, original features are revealed and new layers are added to make way for the new Darebin Intercultural Centre — a space that will bring all cultures together for a central and visible expression of Council’s commitment to a more just society.

Last night Qianyi Lim, who leads Sibling’s Sydney studio was awarded the NSW Emerging Architect Award. We are thrilled for this achievement and recognition of Qianyi’s contribution to the profession through practice, education and advocacy.

Jury Citation:
Amongst a group of highly talented nominees, the jury considered that Qianyi’s impressive and rounded career portfolio that spans across private practice, education and advocacy made her the ideal candidate for this prize. Qianyi has used her reach in the profession to champion diversity and advocate for women in architecture through invited panels and talks. Further to this, her built work puts Sibling’s research into practice exploring relevant societal themes such as models of home ownership, ageing and multi-generational housing.

Qianyi’s contribution and esteemed expertise to the wider profession is through her involvement co-chairing the AIA NSW Education and Research committee, award juries and as panel member on the State Design Review Panel. Most notably, after years of teaching at various universities in Melbourne and Sydney, her appointment as Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Building and Planning sees Qianyi contributing directly to the development of the masters curriculum and shaping the next generation of architects.

The jury congratulates Qianyi Lim on this well deserved recognition of her extensive contribution to the profession.

We are still pinching ourselves from last night’s events!
Stable House was awarded the Wilkinson Award, the highest accolade for new residential architecture in NSW.
Needless to say we are humbled to have been recognised amongst architects we deeply admire and respect 🙏
A big thanks to the jury and Julie Power for awarding our small but mighty project.

Jury citation:
“Stable House is a small family home that pops with joy and colour. Sibling Architecture has created an incredibly adaptable house with an eye to the future, without losing sight of the past.

​It belies its small footprint, with a series of overlapping spaces, artful voids and curated views of greenery. The house weaves within the skin of the existing stable wall creating a delightful quality of natural light and depth of texture. The folded roof form is both a sensitive design response to neighbours and a delicate canopy of light.

​Central to the home is the kitchen. Designed with memories of extended family gathering around for meals – the space is perfectly proportioned to fulfil this function in a small footprint.

​Jurors agreed that the house is an inspirational model for how pockets of forgotten space in densely populated areas can be transformed into calm sanctuaries for living.”

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Fresh pics of our recently completed project FLIPCO! A new co-working concept in Madrid, Spain. Taking over a former bank building, a series of colour-coded 'neighbourhoods' define different social activities that take place within the space.
Designed by us in association with our Spanish delivery partners.