Proud to share Semis 02, our semi-detached housing design for the NSW Housing Pattern Book, a government – led initiative promoting affordable, adaptable and sustainable housing across the state.
Our housing pattern design presents a thoughtful approach to scale, high-quality construction details, light and liveability, with each pre-approved design helping to bridge the housing gap, fast track the process and meet growing demand without forgoing quality.

This pattern design stands alongside a cohort of forward-thinking practices who believe good design should be generous, inclusive  and available to all. Thank you to the NSW Government Architect for facilitating this important work.
If you have a site that may be appropriate for our pattern, please get in touch, we are keen to chat! In the meantime you can find out more about the pattern book initiative here.

We are pleased to announce that we are one of twelve architectural practices to be commissioned for the Government Architect NSW Housing Pattern Book.
The NSW Housing Pattern Book aims to accelerate low- and mid-rise housing delivery. Led by the Government Architect NSW, it involves experts from development, construction, planning, and architecture.

The Pattern Book will feature designs and guidelines for terrace houses, dual occupancy homes, low-rise (up to 2 storeys) and mid-rise (3–6 storeys) apartments. These homes will be adaptable, sustainable, affordable, and designed to meet community needs at all life stages, from raising children to ageing in place. The initiative aims to increase diverse housing options where they’re needed most, ensuring all designs meet the Livable Housing Design Standard for accessibility. Pattern books have been used successfully worldwide and in NSW, with historic examples in Sydney, Newcastle, Orange, Bathurst, and Dubbo. Featured below are examples of housing pattern designs by Petitt & Sevitt and Robin Boyd.

With single-person households the fastest-growing type—now 25% of all Australian households—housing diversity is crucial. Over half of households consist of just one or two people, yet townhouses, dual occupancies, and mid-rise apartments are in decline. People want to stay in their communities and have loved ones nearby. Existing suburbs like Wollstonecraft, Waverton, Erskineville, Newcastle, and Kiama show how well-integrated housing diversity supports vibrant, connected communities.

We are currently working on a low rise housing pattern design and look forward to sharing more with you later this year.

Read the GANSW media release here and Architecture AU article here.

Marketing for Petitt & Sevitt’s Lowline home which was delivered across regional NSW and Canberra in the 1960s and 1970s.

Robin Boyd’s housing pattern designs for the AIA Small Home Service.

Sibling have been working on the exhibition design for the Science Gallery Melbourne’s inaugural show, ‘Not Natural’, which finally opened at the end of January.

The exhibition explores the growing fiction between natural and artificial systems, showcasing a number of speculative local and international projects dissolving the line between what is considered natural and not natural.

We will be sharing more about our approach to designing the exhibition for some of the weird and wonderful exhibits including live jellyfish and a machete-wielding houseplant! But for now, here are some pics from the opening event.

Not Natural is on show from now until June 29 at Science Gallery Melbourne.

Sibling Architecture and ASPECT Studios has been shortlisted as one of four teams for the Griffith Park Precinct Design Competition for Canterbury Bankstown Council. The project is to envision a new masterplan for the Griffith Park Precinct in Bankstown, which will include the delivery of a new community centre building and park.

We are so thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Council on this and are well underway in developing some exciting concepts for the thriving and bustling centre in Western Sydney.

On 11^th May, Sibling attended the Dulux 2023 Colour Awards where our Darebin Intercultural Centre was crowned the winner of the Grand Prix prize!

“The deliberate avoidance of any recognizable cultural representation placed greater importance on the form and material palette, and we applaud the strong tie to the brief, achieved through the push and pull of colour and texture,” said the judges.

Read all about the win on ArchitectureAU, along with a list of all the other winners at the 2023 Dulux Colour Awards.

Kicking off the year on site is our new technical campus building for Rushworth P-12 College!
Located on Taungurung Country, 180km north of Naarm/Melbourne, the former gold-mining town is now a small community of little more than 2000. The new campus building will provide new technical learning and community spaces that will be utilised by the wider public, whilst creating opportunities for primary and secondary students to interconnect.

Looking forward to sharing construction progress throughout the year!

How will you grow old? Can you live forever? What kind of ancestor do you want to be? Will your house outlive you?

The twenty-first century has ushered in a longevity revolution with the life expectancy of human beings almost doubling in the last hundred years made possible by healthier lifestyles and improved medical care. This is echoed in Australia, which has one of the highest life expectancies in the world.
But growing older tomorrow will be very different than today.

The retirement of Australians relies upon the financial security of the home and superannuation. As home ownership is becoming an impossibility for many younger Australians, how does this shift future models of living for the elderly and for society? What can one learn from radical forms of dwelling currently underway in Australia and overseas? What models of home ownership can adapt to the maturing of society and a changing market economy?

New Agency is a research project that posed these questions. Taking the form of a public investigation, Sibling has collected and displayed its research as an exhibition in Melbourne and Sydney, with film screenings in Perth, Sao Paulo and Melbourne, and as a meditation at the 2019 National Architecture Conference in
Melbourne.

The research culminates in the publication New Agency: The future of ageing and dwelling that collates the findings, including the provocation of a cooperative housing model in order that land and housing in Australia are provided for the common good – for both young and old. Sibling believe transitions in housing markets are possible through rethinking finances, land ownership, and rental relationships. Read the publication here

This publication was made possible with assistance from the Alastair Swayn Foundation.

Publication design by Lloyd – MST.

We are excited to see our Music Market project for Creative Victoria at the Collingwood Yards commence construction! In these complicated times of social distancing, the urgency to invest in these cultural and civic spaces is ever more present. Looking forward to the day when we can bring the community together at the Music Market.