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Modern concrete residence with cantilevered upper floor, curved copper cladding, vertical timber screens, and tropical landscaping.


Bombora
House


Location |  Mermaid Beach, Queensland
Client | Confidential
Photographer | Andy Macpherson
Services | Architecture, Interior Design, Design, Documentation
Bombora presents a contemporary and minimal expression shaped by clean horizontal planes and deeply recessed forms that create a sense of calm restraint. Cast concrete, natural stone, and copper cladding ground the home with a raw, tactile presence, offering an honesty in materiality that is both robust and elegantly refined. These elements work together to provide privacy and a feeling of permanence while maintaining a strong architectural clarity.

Externally, the building is designed to endure and evolve within the harsh coastal environment. Concrete provides inherent resilience, while copper and stone introduce textures that will weather gracefully, developing a natural patina that enhances their character over time. Deep overhangs, operable screens, and precisely framed apertures offer protection from the elements while ensuring uninterrupted views toward the ocean.

Generous expanses of glass further connect the home to its coastal setting, softening the threshold between interior and exterior spaces. This transparency allows the shifting conditions of the sea and sky to animate the architecture throughout the day, reinforcing the home’s relationship with its environment and highlighting the beauty of its raw, enduring material palette.

Within, the executive-style interiors adopt a refined, moody palette that complements the robust exterior shell. Dark timbers, stone finishes, and atmospheric lighting contribute to a sophisticated, intimate environment that contrasts the openness of the coastal outlook. The result is a home that balances strength with elegance—resilient to its environment yet deeply connected to it, and visually minimal while richly layered in material expression.




Close-up of the residence’s cantilevered concrete upper level with curved copper-clad facade, vertical timber battens, and textured stone-clad lower walls. Foreground features minimalist tropical planting in white pots.


Open-plan living and dining area with polished concrete floors, neutral furnishings, and fully retracted sliding glass doors framing panoramic ocean views and tropical coastal landscape beyond.

Contemporary beachfront residence at dusk, viewed from the dunes: three-level concrete and glass structure with deep horizontal overhangs, full-height glazing, and rooftop terrace, framed by coastal vegetation and neighbouring homes.


Indoor-outdoor living space with textured concrete fireplace wall, neutral-toned modular furniture, timber dining table, and seamless transition to covered terrace featuring louvered screens and ocean glimpses.

Minimalist dark-toned kitchen with stone benchtops, bronze tapware, and copper rangehood, opening directly to panoramic ocean views through full-height glazing.


Moody lower-level living area with dark leather sofa, marble bar counter, and fully open sliding doors revealing uninterrupted ocean horizon at dusk.

Intimate lower-level bar with illuminated green marble counter, velvet bar stools, brass foot rail, and backlit spirit display beneath a coffered timber ceiling.


Rear elevation of the beachfront residence: cantilevered concrete volumes, full-height reflective glazing, glass balustrades, and timber accents, seen across coastal dunes at sunset.