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Andrew Benn
PROFILE
Benn + Penna is an award winning professional consultancy in architecture and interior design. We are a design focused practice that specialises in residential alterations and new houses, along with small-to-medium scale commercial fitouts and public spaces. The practice brings together an ambitious design approach with rigorous considerations to sustainability, urbanism and detailing.
Within our industry we have gained a reputation as an office highly committed to good design with a focus on attention to detail, targeted carefully to our individual clients. In 2014 we were honoured with the NSW Architecture Award for our Balmain Houses – one of the highest accolades possible for architecture in NSW. Our work has covered metropolitan areas of Sydney along with regional areas such as the Southern Highlands, Hunter Valley and Hawkesbury River.
For the relatively short time frame since Benn & Penna’s inception, the momentum of the practice has grown rapidly to become one of high acclaim and a promising future.
BIOGRAPHY
Andrew Benn
Andrew is a registered architect and Director of Benn & Penna Architecture. Since establishing Benn & Penna in 2013 the office has quickly grown to become an award winning professional consultancy that employs 4-5 staff. The practice brings together an ambitious design approach with rigorous considerations to sustainability, urbanism and detailing.
In 2014 we were honoured with a NSW Architecture Award for our Balmain Houses and shortlisted for our Southern Highlands House. Andrew is a jury member of the 2016 NSW AIA Architecture Awards in the residential catergory, and spoken at the recently sold-out institute talk ‘ArchiPRACTICE’.
Andrew’s work at Benn & Penna has made a considerable contribution to the public discourse of architecture; being included in numerous highly acclaimed publications, interviewed by ABC Radio and exhibited in the 2013 Sydney Architecture Festival. Andrew is currently engaged by InsideOut Magazine as their expert architect and advises on residential projects in each month’s issue. The magazine is published nationally with a readership of over 190,000 people.
The Balmain Houses is currently part of an academic study at UNSW for the ‘Architecture by Hand and Mind’ book, critically investigating the nature of co-housing and its potentials. This project has also been recently aired on channel 7’s Better Homes and Gardens, with an average airing to 920,000 viewers, and speaks about intergenerational living through the project to broadcast to a wider audience the social role of architecture in our context.
Andrew has also led guided tours through his own projects, educating the public, clients and also other architects in the value of thoughtful design. He has also held regular teaching roles for over ten years at UNSW, University of Sydney and UTS.
Andrew Benn
PROFILE
Benn + Penna is an award winning professional consultancy in architecture and interior design. We are a design focused practice that specialises in residential alterations and new houses, along with small-to-medium scale commercial fitouts and public spaces. The practice brings together an ambitious design approach with rigorous considerations to sustainability, urbanism and detailing.
Within our industry we have gained a reputation as an office highly committed to good design with a focus on attention to detail, targeted carefully to our individual clients. In 2014 we were honoured with the NSW Architecture Award for our Balmain Houses – one of the highest accolades possible for architecture in NSW. Our work has covered metropolitan areas of Sydney along with regional areas such as the Southern Highlands, Hunter Valley and Hawkesbury River.
For the relatively short time frame since Benn & Penna’s inception, the momentum of the practice has grown rapidly to become one of high acclaim and a promising future.
BIOGRAPHY
Andrew Benn
Andrew is a registered architect and Director of Benn & Penna Architecture. Since establishing Benn & Penna in 2013 the office has quickly grown to become an award winning professional consultancy that employs 4-5 staff. The practice brings together an ambitious design approach with rigorous considerations to sustainability, urbanism and detailing.
In 2014 we were honoured with a NSW Architecture Award for our Balmain Houses and shortlisted for our Southern Highlands House. Andrew is a jury member of the 2016 NSW AIA Architecture Awards in the residential catergory, and spoken at the recently sold-out institute talk ‘ArchiPRACTICE’.
Andrew’s work at Benn & Penna has made a considerable contribution to the public discourse of architecture; being included in numerous highly acclaimed publications, interviewed by ABC Radio and exhibited in the 2013 Sydney Architecture Festival. Andrew is currently engaged by InsideOut Magazine as their expert architect and advises on residential projects in each month’s issue. The magazine is published nationally with a readership of over 190,000 people.
The Balmain Houses is currently part of an academic study at UNSW for the ‘Architecture by Hand and Mind’ book, critically investigating the nature of co-housing and its potentials. This project has also been recently aired on channel 7’s Better Homes and Gardens, with an average airing to 920,000 viewers, and speaks about intergenerational living through the project to broadcast to a wider audience the social role of architecture in our context.
Andrew has also led guided tours through his own projects, educating the public, clients and also other architects in the value of thoughtful design. He has also held regular teaching roles for over ten years at UNSW, University of Sydney and UTS.
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