Starting with a blank canvas is confronting. Starting with one that is enormous and doesn’t even exist, even more so. But rather than being daunted by the task, Alex Nicholls was able to draw on his artistic and tectonic skills to design a multigenerational home on the rooftop of a new Elsternwick apartment building that is a play of composition, colour, materiality and light.
This rare commission for a 350-square-metre penthouse was a choice project for Office Alex Nicholls, especially for its first in Australia. Alex, who practised architecture in the UK and Europe before returning home to Sydney, had
