Ware Architects: Architecture & landscape that enriches our experience of place.

2025 Regional Architecture Awards

James Barnet Award

Residential Architecture - Houses (New)

Timber Award

$Small house |:| Big shelter Site progress: Expressed hardwood structure & intersecting gable forms ready for canopy lining /\$

Working on a theme, exploring the vernacular of expressed hardwood construction currently on site in Valla Beach. Articulating simplicity is often the hardest thing to pull off. Carpenters & builders, am I right?

Clubhouse Shelter 🎾

Compact, adjustable & structurally expressive. This little featherweight punches above its class.

Clubhouse shelter🎾
Small in stature, robust in nature.

Small house | Big shelter
Beginning on site shortly just around the corner from our studio. We're looking forward to seeing the hardwood structure and detailing come to fruition.

#warearchitects #regionalism #northcoast #shelter #hardwood #timberfr

Loft installation in the utility shed providing overflow accommodation & essential amenities. The colours used in this scheme reference basic industrial items - we call this one 'skip bin blue'..... the colours are intentionally playful and help

Agricultural Utility Shed on a rural block on the Far North Coast. The southern wall and full height sliding doors fully open up to the landscape @asecbuilding

#warearchitects #regionalism #landscape #shelter #agricultural #brutalism

#Gardenvale Sectional drawing. The existing building shell disguises a contemporary & flexible home within, easily shifting between quiet, intimate times and large family functions.

#warearchitects #regionalism #artdeco #restoration #interwarmod

Our take on the external veranda stair shown in conversation with just some of the great entry stairs along the streets of Brunswick Heads. The spiral plunges into the garden below, and provides an arbour for greenery to climb around.

This shot also

Platform clubhouse taking shape in Byron. A small shelter hovering above a gentle slope, embracing the context. Custom fenestration not far away. Timber framing supplied by @oldmilltimberyard Carpentry by the @asecbuilding team

#warearchitects #nort

Gardenvale PLAN + diagrams.

The project rejects floor area extensions for a clever re-design that rationalises economy, environmental concerns and heritage value, with zero increase to the existing built footprint.

An unexpected sequencing of spac

#GARDENVALE balancing the newly rebuilt spaces with restored period details. Custom library/entry bureau hanging effortlessly within the entry hall + refurbished sitting room details.

Photos by @arorygardiner
Joinery by @andyryan.co
Built by Arunde

Gardenvale, from the street and from the rear garden . The front elevation's period detailing is restored, and flanked by a new batten fence + carport - a counterpoint to the solid brick house. The eastern wall onto the rear garden is completely rebu

Gardenvale_concept study. Period detailing and traditional rose gardens are refurbished & reinstated along the street in this semi-detached home. In the backyard, the eastern elevation is rebuilt to deliver an immediate, yet filtered relationship

Our humble little #Gardenvale renovation has been shortlisted in the 2023 Houses Awards for Alterations & Additions under 200m2. Love the grounded, cosy atmosphere achieved in the restoration.

Can't wait to see more of the photos in print (publi