Snell Architects

SNELL ARCHITECTS

169 Albion St
Surry Hills, NSW, 2010
Sydney	+61 2 9332 1111
Newcastle	+61 2 4929 1800
snell@snellarchitects.com.au

OUR WORK

RETAIL AND COMMERCIAL
B Boutique_QVB Sydney
Marni Fashion House_Double Bay
Bunda_Hilton Hotel
Miu Miu (Prada)_Gold Coast
DKNY_Crown Casino_Melbourne
Prada_George St_The Rocks_Sydney
CK_Castlreagh St_Sydney
DKNY_Castleragh St_Sydney
Prada_Martin Place_Sydney
Bvlgari_Market St_Sydney
Armarni Exchange_King St_Sydney
Giorgio Armarni_Market St_Sydney
Emporio Armarni_Market St_Sydney

HOSPITALITY
Yulli's Bar_Surry Hills
Beresford Hotel_Surry Hills
Shore Club_Manly
Steyne Hotel_Manly
Royal Oak_Double Bay
Pacific Hotel_Yamba
The Colombian_Darlinghurst
Kinselas and Middle Bar_Darlinghurst
Bangalow Hotel_Bangalow
Great Northern Hotel_Byron Bay
Bat and Ball Hotel_Sydney
Rose of Australia_Erskineville
The Brewery_Newcastle
Royal Oak_Balmain
Botany Hotel_Botany
Croydon Park Hotel_Croydon Park
Beverly Hills Hotel_Beverly Hills
Eaton's Hotel_Muswellbrook
Dolphin Hotel_Surry Hills
Commodore Hotel_North Sydney
The Briar's Inn_Bowral
Ballina Hotel_Ballina
Glasglow Arms_Pyrmont
Bangor Tavern_Bangor
Wentworthville Hotel_Wentworthville
The Duke_Wagga Wagga
Royal Hotel_Moree
Commercial Hotel_Walcha
Eastwood Rugby Club_Eastwood
Horatio Motel_Mudgee

HOUSES
We have designed over 400 houses since commencing practice in areas ranging from Sydney, Newcastle, North Coast, Central Coast and regionally. Apartments, city houses, suburban houses, terraces, beach houses and farm houses.

MASTER PLANNING AND CIVIC
UWS Parramatta Campus Master Plan
UWS Penrith Campus Master Plan
UWS Library
UWS Auditorium
UWS Student Union Building
Ashfield Boys High School
North Sydney Boys High School

INSTALLATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
Songlines, Conservatorium of Music_Sydney
Asger Design Exhibition_Life in Style Trade Fair

LEAD TEAM

DIRECTORS

KEVIN SNELL
M B ENV B ARCH B SC ARCH FRAIA ARCHITECT NSW 3784
Kevin founded Snell Architects in 1978 and has led more than 2000 projects. Kevin holds a Masters in the Built Environment and holds degrees in Architecture from the University of Newcastle, NSW.

JOE SNELL
B ARCH B SC ARCH
Joe joined the team in 2003 and with Kevin leads Snell Architects in design. Joe is Creative Manager of Smart Light Sydney, a low energy urban lighting festival in Sydney 2009. Joe completed his studies in Copenhagen at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and holds Architectural degrees from the University of Sydney. Joe also has a Diploma in Real Estate management and worked in London in real estate.

BILL GROSSMANN
B ARCH B SC ARCH
Bill joined Snell Architects in 1988 and leads our Contract Administration. Bill is an expert in hospitality issues such as POPE and Council submissions. Bill holds degrees in Architecture from the University of Newcastle, NSW.

ASSOCIATES

LUIS GIL
ARCHITECTURAL TECHNICIAN
Luis joined Snell Architects in 1996 and leads our drafting team. Luis also occupies the roles of our initial site analysis and audit of projects.

SONGLINES_SYDNEY

Harps are in and we are getting close to completion.

Harp being craned in.

SONGLINES_SYDNEY

The frames with the 7000 tiles being attached.

SONGLINES_SYDNEY

The aeolian harps in the workshop.

YULLI'S BAR_SURRY HILLS

Now open and pumping Yulli's stocks 24 NSW boutique beers and vegeterian food. An interesting mix that goes well with an eclectic Surry Hills crowd that have become followers of this happening place. Pop down and enjoy the hospitality of Karl and Dan, great hosts!!

YULLI'S BAR_SURRY HILLS

With the brief to create a unique bar in Surry Hills within a tight budget there was a call to create something totally different. We used a kilometre of string and exposed coloured fluorescents to totally change the ambience.

A before shot of what we had to work with - a skinny dark terrace.

B BOUTIQUE_QVB SYDNEY

With a brief to introduce jewellery to the next generation, we incorporated a chandelier of 80 abstracted surveillance cameras to behold and entice the viewer.

B BOUTIQUE_QVB SYDNEY

The chandelier frame goes in.

The faceted heritage wall as we called it.

The feature wall with full height mirror and the beautiful fabric images with their glow.

A before shot of the shop.

AGED CARE UNITS_NEWCASTLE

A conceptual still we presented to our Clients for a 171 unit aged care facility in Newcastle.

MARNI FASHION HOUSE_DOUBLE BAY

For this Marni Fashion House retail store in Double Bay we were the local Architects, interpreting London based Sybarite's design for Australian conditions and regulations. Here a few shots inside and out. Eastons Builders took out the commercial shopfitters award for this fitout.

THE SHORE CLUB_MANLY

This is fantastic place that we were the Architects for located in beautiful Manly. Here a few shots showing the roof top bar with the retractable blinds that form shelter when the southerly kicks up. Well worth a visit for a beer on a hot sunny afternoon...or any afternoon for that matter...

TEMPORARY DWELLING_COMPETITION WINNER

This project 'Uplift' was selected through an international competition to be constructed as part of the Canberra Biennial. The brief was to create a temporary dwelling, and it was great to see this design realised. We took the premise of using a structural system that was already temporary - scaffolding. This was designed after the 2004 Tsunami and was a response to emergency housing becoming 'permanent' housing. The idea is that the scaffolding forms the temporary emergency housing and then becomes the construction infrastructure to create the new permanent housing and civic buildings.

LOW RISE HOUSING_LAKE MACQUARIE

Some renderings of low rise housing in the Lake Macquarie area. This project required us to work closely with Lake Macquarie Council to show that the 16 unit development would be sympathetic to the existing streetscape.

RESIDENTIAL UNITS_SOLDIERS POINT

Renderings of 100 units designed on land next to a bowling club, we worked hard to create a building that did not rise above the crest of trees rising behind it and thus not interfere with the hill and tree line of the area.

Here a Kevin Snell initial sketch design inspired by scattered honey pots in the Australian bush. The development of this is shown in the renderings above.

MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT_NEWCASTLE

A conceptual render depicting the 'smoke-stack' elevator tower rising to connect the ground, with the 50 metre public pool and then the roofscape.

MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT_NEWCASTLE

A few renderings that show the open space created by utilising a tall slim commercial and residential building rather than 3 mid sized wide buildings that would have filled the site, reducing the opportunity for functional open space.

STEYNE HOTEL_MANLY

This model is part of the package we put together as a formal audit of the building stock for the owners, so that decisions of the type of future development could be made.

SALT HOUSE

Located in the coastal development SALT, just below Kingscliff in northern NSW, this design sought to create a magnificent house that introduced a Great Hall to the normal genre of the Gold Coast home. Here in this first image, to the left the normal typology and to the right, the entry to the Great Hall.

The two typologies from the beach, the Great Hall to the left, with its dining room opening out onto a reflective pool.

At dusk.

Formal living in its open state. Formal dining in the distance down the stairs.

Formal living in its home theatre mode.

Living room looking toward the pool, which in the courtyard, is sheltered from the coastal southerlies.

HOUSE_CENTRAL COAST

Here some shots of a house that looks out over Brisbane Waters. Initially built to be as an investment, the Client was so pleased with it that he decided to sell his current home and move into this one. This project was built to a tight budget of $800,000.00

WATERWAY RESIDENCE_GEORGES RIVER

A rendering to indicate to Council that the renovations we proposed to this existing boathouse and residence were to be sympathetic to its waterway surroundings.

WORTH PLACE_NEWCASTLE WEST

A successful 40 unit apartment building in Newcastle in which all the apartments sold of the plan.

ALBERT STREET UNITS_WARNERS BAY

This site was the first cab of the rank as part of the re-zoning in Warner's Bay that turned single dwelling sites into commercial and medium density housing. In this case we achieved 11 individual apartments on the site with two commercial addresses. The Client was able to sell the whole development to a single investment purchaser.

KINSELAS_DARLINGHURST

The famous double storey height space in Kinselas that was once a Crematorium. We were also the Architects responsible for the Middle Bar and balcony upstairs.

ROYAL OAK HOTEL_DOUBLE BAY

A complete renovation of this hotel resulted in the introduction of three luxury apartments above the hotel areas. Understanding the importance of the corner, curved glazing was introduced and detailed renderings were prepared to communicate the refinement. Interestingly due to acid-sulphate soils and therefore the inability to excavate, a vehicle elevator system was introduced to allow residents to be elevated to, and park on their own apartment level.

BEACH HOUSE_FRESHWATER

Open plan viewing with a view.

RESIDENCE_KILCARE

The second house for these clients by us. Here we explored the idea of a formal cluster of buildings engaging with a lawn and then the surrounding bush.

Glass stairwell and view.

Master bedroom.

Master bedroom's robe and ensuite areas.

ROYAL OAK HOTEL_BALMAIN

The dining room. We were one of the first to use this wall treatment on the ceiling to define a space.

BRONTE RESIDENCE

White with views.

LINDFIELD RESIDENCE

Here a dynamic bridge was implemented in this family home to link the kids bedrooms to the rest of the house. A sense of fun and always exciting to move through this house.

DKNY_CASTLEREAGH ST_SYDNEY

UWS STUDENT UNION

A detail of part of the Student Union cafe.

MEREWETHER RESIDENCE_NEWCASTLE

Here we designed a two-storey atrium to connect the existing house and garage, creating a flow through the house and an increased amenity.

The new kitchen and stair.

REGIONAL RESIDENCE

Here a house in the woodland. The water is part of a man made dam with the latest fire fighting technology connected to ensure the buildings survival in a bush fire. This image shows the study pod, which you travel across a bridge to reach.