BKK Architects

BKK Architects
Practice information
Founders
  • Tim Black
  • Julian Kosloff
  • Simon Knott
Founded 2000 (2000)
Location 180 Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Website
b-k-k.com.au

BKK Architects is an Australian architectural practice based in Melbourne, Victoria. The firm was established in 2000 by architects Tim Black, Julian Kosloff and Simon Knott, all of whom are graduates of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Realized commissions include a broad spectrum of residential, commercial, public and institutional buildings, as well as infrastructure and urban design projects.

Current undertakings include Melbourne’s landmark Clark Street Tower[1] and the Central Dandenong Urban Masterplan. The philosophy of BKK is design-based problem solving and is not limited to specific building typologies, although an emerging focus in their work is place making. The firm has strong research interests and established affiliations with several Melbourne educational institutions.

Contour House, Bellarine Peninsula

Notable projects

Calder Woodburn rest area
Beached House
Central Dandenong Lonsdale street redesign and upgrade, Dandenong
Clarke street apartment tower, Southbank
Completed Project name Location Award Notes
2003 Wrap House Toorak, Melbourne
  • City of Stonnington Urban Design Award (2004)
[2]
2003 2-Parts House Elwood, Melbourne [3]
2006 Vic roads soundwalls, Monash Freeway Burwood, Melbourne [4]
2008 Calder Woodburn Rest Area, Goulburn Valley Highway
  • Interior Design Awards, Winner Colour in Commercial Design (2010)
  • CCAA Public Domain Awards, Winner Public Artwork Award (2009)
[5]
2008 Great wall of Warburton Warburton [6]
2009 Beached House Western Port, Victoria
  • AIA Victorian Architecture Awards, Winner Residential Architecture New (2011)
[7]
2011 Central Dandenong urban masterplan Dandenong, Victoria
[8]
2012 Holiday House Mornington, Victoria [9]
2012 Australian Garden Shelters Royal Botanic Gardens in Cranbourne [10]
2013 Ring Road Rest Areas Geelong, Victoria [11]
in progress Clarke Street Apartment Tower Southbank [1]
Tower turnaround Fitzroy [12]

Research

BKK Architects is involved with several high profile architectural research projects in affiliation with various partners. These include the Bi-Directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) project in collaboration with RMIT University and Soundwall technologies working in concert with Australian acoustic engineering firms and plastic manufacturers.

Media

In 2003 Simon Knott and Stuart Harrison established a weekly Tuesday night architecture radio show on 3RRR. Called The Architects, the duo was later joined with Rory Hyde and Christine Phillip and focused on boarding the understanding of architecture in the wider community. In 2005 Knott and Hyde won the AIA Victoria Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media.

In 2013 ABC Radio National featured an eight-week segment on Art Nation called The Good, the Bad and the Ugly hosted by Knott and Harrison. In 2012 the show won the Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media. Segments featured The Arts Prescient, Dockland and Fed Square.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Clarke Street Apartment Tower". Black Kosloff Knott Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on 18 May 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "The Wrap House". The Contempoist. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "2-Parts house". Timber Development Association. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "VicRoads Soundwalls". Architecture Australia. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Calder Woodburn Rest Area". BlueScope Steel Limited. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "Great Wall of Warburton". Dream Build. Australia: ABC TV. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "Beached House". ArchDaily. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "Lonsdale Street Dandenong". ArchDaily. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  9. ↑ "Black Kosloff Knott Pty Ltd". Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  10. ↑ "Australian Garden Shelters". Niche Media Pty Ltd. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  11. ↑ "Geelong Ring Road". Cirrus Media. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  12. ↑ "Tower Turnaround". BKK Architects. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
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