Our Sibling Stable house is well under way 🙂
All the framing is up…and we feel the house nestles quite comfortably within the old stable brick walls.

We love watching the details as they come together…the concrete sala cloud seat and papaya grid ceramic tile cladding.
Aiming for lockup before Christmas…and completion by Autumn 2020!

We are excited that construction has began for our Surfside Primary School Project- we look forward to seeing how the works will improve learning outcomes for the students and improve the school for the community!

We are very excited to have been recognised at the inaugural 2019 Design Files awards in the Residential Architecture category. Up against some tough competition we are thrilled that the Hello Houses social ambitions and connections to its context were recognised and celebrated by the judges! Congratulations to all the other award winners.

Will your house outlive you? What kind of ancestor do you want to be? These are some of the questions we’re asking in our film showing at Everyday, the twelfth edition of the International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo, which has just opened this week! The film is part of New Agency, our research project that looks towards the future of housing through the lens of an ageing population.

Everyday, proposes to professionals and the public to reflect on the everyday – the most trivial dimension of reality – to investigate architecture and the built environment of the 21st century. Everyday presents practices and projects ranging from construction to design, planning, photography, pedagogy, research, policy making and activism, crossing disciplines, scales and boundaries.

Our Glassbook house in Tempe is nearing the finish line. We are really thrilled to see the structural bookshelves installed, and the soft light coming through the glassblock wall…perfect for reading. Can’t wait to populate those shelves and share more of this little gem!

Sibling were invited to participate at this year’s FRONT Design in Sydney’s Barangaroo. Qianyi was part of a panel discussion ‘Zest for Life: Design Strategies for Ageing in Place’ alongside industry experts Lorraine Calder from Australian Unity, Diane Jones from PTW and Harold Smith from Keppel Capital.

The lively discussion was chaired by Fiona Young, Hayball, and touched on various future living scenarios for an ageing population; including co-living arrangements, multi-generational communities and how technology enables greater autonomy in later life.

Are you an attendee or an activist? We are honoured to be taking part in this year’s conference, bringing you a reboot of our New Agency Guided Visualisation.

Curated by Monique Woodward (WOWOWA) and Stephen Choi, Collective Agency reminds us that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and with unity comes an ability to affect an outcome. This year’s event will encourage reflection on today’s challenges, the articulation of more meaningful protocols, and most importantly, the willingness to act. Discussing what WAS (our shared understanding), what IS (our shared reality), and what COULD BE (our shared advocacy), Collective Agency is a dual state of doing and being.

See more about the conference and an outline of the full program here.

Earlier this month, Qianyi Lim of Sibling was invited to take part in Parlour’s Sydney Autumn Salon, with Fiona Young, Studio director of Hayball.

Qianyi and Fiona engaged in a public conversation on cultural heritage and how it impacts on practice, celebrating diversity in the workplace and the bamboo ceiling.

You can read more about the even here.

We are excited to announce our white on white textured retail space has been shortlised for an Inde Design Award under Shopping Space category. Check out the Inde Design Awards and the other shortlisted projects here!

We are thrilled that our Hello Houses in Port Fairy have been shortlisted for a Houses award for a new house under 200sqm.

Check out what great company we are in here.