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Rammed earth with a view

FOR SALE: Rivendell Park

NOW FOR SALE: A gorgeous rammed earth home we built over a decade ago is up for sale for the first time. It’s tucked away within a keyhole of private land within the Conondale National Park, in the Sunshine Coast/Noosa hinterland. We built the home in 2010 and it still looks like new, over a […]

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Sydney Modern Project

The opportunity to be part of what is being called ‘a once in a generation project’ has taken us to central Sydney, to build extensive rammed earth walls for the new section of the Art Gallery of NSW. With nearly 1400sqm of rammed earth walls on two levels, the 6m high walls sweep through glazed […]

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Stockland rammed earth entry

Promenading our Skills

  CUSP Landscape Architects recently employed us to create a colourful rammed earth statement entry to a new Stockland Property housing estate in Deception Bay, Queensland. It was extremely rewarding to receive an email from the Landscape Architect for the project, Sam Waterson. “We just wanted to say a huge thank you on behalf of […]

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Red rammed earth in outback

“BULWARK-LIKE” RAMMED EARTH A PRIZE-WINNER

Our “bulwark-like” rammed earth walls at the Blackwater Aquatic Centre have been cited as a reason why architects Liquid Blu won the Public Architecture Award (Queensland) for 2018. The jury of the Australian Institute of Architects said, “Providing a small mining community with a cool place of respite and aquatic activities for all ages, the bulwark-like outer layer […]

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