WHO WE ARE
MCK is a multi-award winning Architecture Practice based in Sydney, Australia.
We specialise in bespoke design of high quality finish and detail that is responsive to context and client brief.
OUR STORY
MCK has developed over the past two decades a knowledge and expertise in designing prestige buildings that has been awarded and acclaimed by the Australian Institute of Architects, the Institute of Interior Designers, and the Australian Design Council.
MCK has a portfolio of commercial and residential projects with a specialisation in one-off detached houses and adaptive reuse.
OUR TEAM
MARK CASHMAN
Steve Koolloos
Maki Yamaji
Isabelle Orr
Su Liew
david gan
JO TINYOU
SHANNAN SINGH
MACKENZIE NIX
Carol Caruso
ETHOS
Architectural experience can be life changing.
Phenomena in space and light.
Volume and form delivering emotion and thought.
Architecture is the embodiment of imagination.
Engagement with it should be sublime.|
It should bring happiness and delight.
It should represent what we strive for and our common goal.
It should be noble, awe-inspiring and magnificent.
Responsive to site, context and end user needs.
Environmentally sensitive and sustainable.
Quality in finish and detail.
Pleasure and benefit in function.
Excitement in innovation.
All this is enveloped in building.
The fabric and material that delivers the built form.
This is achieved through collaboration.
Of like minded people that dream, create, construct and finance.
Teamwork, knowledge experience and pragmatism.
To guide and see ideas come to fruition.
Nurtured, with expertise, from conception to completion.
Our service as Architects is to aim to deliver this manifesto.
To assist in the journey to make idea become reality.
Let’s make Architecture.
AWARDS
2019 Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter Award Houses (new) - Sunrise House
2019 Concrete Institute of Australia, State Award for Excellence - Extruded House
2018 Architizer Architecture+Glass Awards, Special mention - Sunrise House
2016 Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter, Architecture Award - House Acute
2016 Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter, Commendation for W House
2015 Woollahra Design Excellence Awards - Commendation for New Residence: Flipped House
2013 Australian Interior Design Awards - Residential Category Commendation - Skirt and Rock House
2013 Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter, Architecture Award for Flipped House
2012 Australian House and Garden Magazine ‘Top 50 Rooms Awards’ - Winner, Room of the Year - Skirt and Rock House
2012 Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter, Commendation for Skirt and Rock House
2011 Houses Awards - Finalist: House Alteration + Addition over 200m2 - Paddingtonx2 House.
2011 Houses Awards - Finalist: New House over 200m2 - DPR House.
2011 Wilkinson Award - Excellence in Residential Building 2011; Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter award
2010 IDA Interior Design Award
2010 ‘Colour in a Residential Interior’ category - River House
2010 Australia Interior Design Awards, Commendation - Residential Design - Queens Park House
2008 RAIA State Residential ‘Single Housing - Alterations & Additions’ Architecture Award - Chatswood House
2007 Belle House Of The Year Award - 2nd Runner Up
2007 Dulux Colour Award ‘Residential Interior’ category - Bond House
TDA Excellence in Timber Design - Interior Fitout in Wood Veneer - MG House
TDA Res.Cl.1 Best Renovation - Highly Commended - White House
TDA Res.Cl.1 Best Renovation - Highly Commended - MG House
2006 IDA Interior Design Commendation, ‘Residential Interior’ category - MG House
2006 Dulux Colour Award ‘Residential Exterior’ category - MG House
2005 RAIA National Residential Architecture Award - White House
2005 RAIA State Residential ‘Single Housing - Alterations & Additions’ Architecture Award - White House
2004 Australian Design Award, Residential Interior Design - White House
2004 IDA Interior Design Award, Refurbished Residential - White House
2002 NSW RAIA Residential Architecture Award - House for Art Collectors
MAGAZINES/JOURNALS
2024 SMH DOMAIN; 12 JUNE, ‘THIS CONCRETE AND TIMBER DUPLEX FLOATS ABOVE THE RIVER IN SYDNEY’S TENNYSON POINT’ - grass is greener HOUSE
2023 HOUSES MAGAZINE; ISSUE 154 - ‘QUARRY BOX BY MCK ARCHITECTS’ - PG 88-95, QUARRY BOX HOUSE
2022 WALLPAPER MAGAZINE, JANUARY ‘AMAZING ADDITIONS - HOME EXTENSIONS FOR EXPANDED LIVING SPACES’ - EXTRUDED HOUSE
2021 SMH, DOMAIN 20 SEPT; ‘IMPOSING KIRRIBILLI SEMI GETS A COOL MAKEOVER’ - TAROELA
2020 Building Character : Transforming Homes for Modern Living, Images Publishing, Santoso Budiman & Caleb Skene, pp. 52-59 -
Stealth House
2020 Housing, HIA Magazine November Issue, Gabrielle Chariton, pp. 30-33 ‘Pitch Perfect’ - Extruded House
2019 Casa Naturale, Jul, pp. 56-67, ‘Volumi A Confronto’ - Extruded House
2019 Inside Out, Feb, pp. 74-83, ‘Handmade Tale’ - The Project Mesa
2019 The Natural Artisan, Issue 17, pp. 8-13, ‘The Pointy End’ - House Acute
2019 The Sydney Morning Herald, July 6-7, ‘Slow Reveal of Ocean proves real standout’ - Sunrise House
2017 Inside Out, Issue 151, pp.78-87 ’Pushing Boundaries’ - Stealth House
2017 The Sydney Morning Herald, Domain 22 Aug, ‘A good relationship between a builder and architect can actually save you money’
2016 Dwell, Jan, ‘An Airy Sydney Home Goes Vertical to Gain Space’ - W House
2016 Houses Kitchen + Bathrooms, pp.132-138 ‘Boldly Folding’ - Folded House
2016 Houses, Issue 110, pp 64-68 - Upsilon
2016 WISH Magazine, The Australian, Jun, pp.64-68 ‘Flipping the Bird’ - Pigeon Shed
2015 Artravel, Issue 63, pp.92-101 ‘Le Importance D’etre Constant’ - MCK Feature
2014 Houses, Kitchen + Bathroom Supplement, Issue 09, pp.96-101 ‘High Life’ - Bondi Apartment
2014 The Sydney Morning Herald, Domain 19 May, ‘Curves part of a smooth modification’ - Bondi Apartment
2013 The Sydney Morning Herald, Domain 6-7 Dec, p.15 ‘Neat Additions’ - G&T House
2013 Australian Financial Review, 22 Nov ‘Kitchen Seclusion’ - Honiton
2013 Australian House & Garden, Nov, Top 50 Rooms edition, p.108 ‘Linear Logic’ - G&T House
2013 (inside), Issue #78, Sept/Oct, p.28 - Manning Cartell Chadstone
2013 Australian House & Garden, Jul 2013, pp.22-29
‘Sunshiny Days’ - Rosebery Resort
2012 Australian House & Garden, Nov, pp.166-173 ‘In a New Light’ - North Bondi House
2012 Arch Luxury Magazine April, pp.83-87 ‘Hovering over the Waterfront - Australian Panoramic View House’ - River House
2012 Belle, The Luxe Issue Jun/Jul, pp.146-151 ‘Pad Thai’ - Bangkok Apartment
2012 Delicious Magazine, March, pp.116-120, ‘Cut the Clutter’ - Bond House, Flipped House
2012 Focus Magazine Number 53, pp.34-36, ‘Flipped House’ - Flipped House
2012 Inside Out, Kitchen + Bathroom Supplement Mar/ Apr, pp.10-13 ‘Full Potential’ - Flipped House
2012 Monument, No. 106, pp.56-61 ‘Back to the Future’ - Flipped House
2012 Houses, Kitchens + Bathrooms, #07 annual pp.134-139, ‘Flipping Out’ - Flipped House
2012 Specifier Issue 100, p.96 ‘Steve Koolloos, MCK Architects’
2012 Specifier Issue 100 pp.84-87 ‘Paddington X2’ - Paddington X2 House
2012 The Sun Herald, 27 May, Trisha Croaker ‘Opening a House to a Great Garden’ - Flipped House
2011 The Sydney Morning Herald Domain, ‘Trophy Homes’
2011 Australian Financial Review, 25-27 Feb, ’Traveller’ - Steve Koolloos
2011 Sydney Morning Herald, 2-3 July, ‘Accolade for the Building Blocks of Health Care’
2011 Australian Financial Review, ‘Urban Renewal dominates awards’
2011 Specifier Magazine issue 97 Architectural Practice Review ‘343 MCK Architects - DPR House’
2011 The New York Times, Home, 16 Jun, ‘Their Space Solution is Found Next Door’
2011 Wish Magazine, The Australian, ‘Next Gen leadership’ - Steve Koolloos
2011 Inside Out, no.92 ’Next Gen Leadership’ series ‘Architecture’ - Steve Koolloos
2011 Casa International, issue 91, cover story - MCK Architects
2011 Vogue Living, Mar/ Apr, Kitchens & Bathrooms - Queens Park House
2011 Inside Out, Mar issue, Queens Park House
2011 Monument, issue no.101, Queens Park House
2011 Monument, issue no.101, CHWH Apartment
2010 Casa International, issue 85 ‘The DPR House’
2010 Architecture Review Australia, issue 117, “The Limits of Control” - DPR House
2010 Monument, issue 97, “River House Exudes Sensuality” - River House
2009 Belle, The Luxe Issue, Jun/Jul, “Surprise Package” - River House
2008 Houses, issue 61, “Beauty Contest” - Kirribilli House
2008 Belle Oct/Nov issue, “Box Trifecta” - Longueville House
BOOKS
2019 Building Character: Transforming Old Homes for Modern Living, Images Publishing Group, Santoso Budiman & Caleb Skene, pp.52-59 ‘Stealth House’
2017 The Apartment House: Reframing the Australian Dream, Thames & Hudson, Cameron Bruhn & Katelin Butler, pp.116 ‘Bondi Apartment’
2013 New Suburban: Reinventing the Suburban Home Australia & New Zealand, Thames & Hudson, Stuart Harrison, pp.66-75 ‘DPR House’
2012 Kuca Stil, March, pp.40-47 ‘Kuca Bumerang’ - River House
2012 21st Century Architecture - Designer Houses, Images Publishing, pp.60-65, Cleary, Mark
2011 Australia’s Best Houses, Think Publishing, pp.146-149 ‘The Garden Room’ + pp.150-153 ‘Multi- Layered Design’
2011 Architecture Bulletin Awards Edition, July, p.20- 21, ’Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture’
2010 Casas Urbanas: Urban Homes, G. R. Kliczkowski, March No.123, pp.66-71 – Casa Chatswood
2010 Encyclopaedia of Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture, Virginia McLeod, Laurence King Publishing, p.36 - Maroubra House
2008 The Australian House; Pesaro, Anna; Bingham Hall Publishing - Mallat House
2008 Casas Urbanas: Urban Homes, G. R. Kliczkowski, April/May, pp.8-13 – Bond House
2008 Next Wave ’Emerging Talents in Australian Architecture, Davina Jackson, Thames & Hudson, p.84-90
2008 Detail in Contemporary Bathroom Design, Virginia McLeod, Laurence King Publishing , pp24-29