I recently had the privilege of photographing a beautiful residential home designed by Julianne McAlloon Architects. Sitting atop a hillside overlooking Cairns, the striking facade features cascading, irregular concrete steps through a landscaped garden. At night these steps illuminate, creating a sense of a staircase floating on light. An enlarged foyer walkway leads through to …
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Trinity Bay High School
With Year 7 entering high schools in Queensland in 2015, Trinity Bay High School needed new facilities to accommodate the additional 300 or so students this would bring. A Junior Secondary Studies precinct was developed… This new double storey wing of the school contains 11 class rooms and accompanying work spaces, along with a staffroom, …
Edmonton Leisure Centre
The Edmonton Leisure Centre was designed as a dual purpose facility as a sports centre and an emergency cyclone shelter. It’s multi-level design facilitates it’s current use as a sports hall and gym for the PCYC Cairns. I was tasked by PDT architects, to capture interior and exterior architecture photography of the centre, highlighting its …
Cardwell Foreshore
When Cyclone Yasi unleashed on the coastal town of Cardwell in February 2011, trees were ripped up, houses were destroyed and the town’s foreshore – a popular stop for travellers between Cairns and Townsville – was swallowed up by the accompanying storm surge. It was very much a small community smashed up beyond recognition. Three …
Jubilee Heights
I was recently down in Innisfail for the architectural photography of a new house for MiHaven, designers and builders of steel framed houses that can be built in relatively quick timeframes (8-12 weeks). This house, located in Jubilee Heights on the outskirts of Innisfail, has a fairly straightforward layout internally, with a rear deck that …
Saibai Island
In terms of remoteness, Saibai Island is up there… In Australia’s it’s bit of a novelty to be able to look across the water to another country, but that’s exactly what you can do on Saibai – a low-lying island a few kilometres from the Papua New Guinea mainland. Anyway, it was an adventure getting …
James Cook University
With the building of the New Crowther Lecture Theatre and Founders Green at the Cairns campus of James Cook University I was tasked by the architects to do the architectural photography to showcase the latest addition. Along with daylight images to show the wide open area of Founders Green and the rainforest backdrop, twilight shots …