Kerstin Thompson
@kerstinthompson.bsky.social
Founding Principal_Kerstin Thompson Architects; 2023AIA Gold Medallist; AM; Adjunct Prof of Architecture RMIT & Monash Universities. Melbourne, Australia.
Architecture, Landscape, Ecology, Cities.
projects @kerstin_thompson_architects & @more_kta on IG
Architecture, Landscape, Ecology, Cities.
projects @kerstin_thompson_architects & @more_kta on IG
Never enough women’s toilets. Meanwhile men’s empty…the sooner we go all gender the better. #melbourneairport #allgendertoilets
July 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Never enough women’s toilets. Meanwhile men’s empty…the sooner we go all gender the better. #melbourneairport #allgendertoilets
May 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
‘Listening to the student voice to learn about thriving in vertic(all) schools’
What a great workshop full of insights - & videos - from an impressive range of students & principals too.
Hosted by Prof Jill Willis
&
Dr Jenna Gillett-Swan
#LEAConference
#2025Odyssey
#LEA
What a great workshop full of insights - & videos - from an impressive range of students & principals too.
Hosted by Prof Jill Willis
&
Dr Jenna Gillett-Swan
#LEAConference
#2025Odyssey
#LEA
May 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
‘Listening to the student voice to learn about thriving in vertic(all) schools’
What a great workshop full of insights - & videos - from an impressive range of students & principals too.
Hosted by Prof Jill Willis
&
Dr Jenna Gillett-Swan
#LEAConference
#2025Odyssey
#LEA
What a great workshop full of insights - & videos - from an impressive range of students & principals too.
Hosted by Prof Jill Willis
&
Dr Jenna Gillett-Swan
#LEAConference
#2025Odyssey
#LEA
It should be easy to obtain a planning permit for a new house such as this, regardless of heritage overlay. When heritage drives the design of new buildings we risk poor patterns being replicated. Better to thoughtfully reconfigure to reflect today’s living/amenity expectations.
April 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
It should be easy to obtain a planning permit for a new house such as this, regardless of heritage overlay. When heritage drives the design of new buildings we risk poor patterns being replicated. Better to thoughtfully reconfigure to reflect today’s living/amenity expectations.
Says The Australian.
Love the irony.
Love the irony.
April 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Says The Australian.
Love the irony.
Love the irony.
“Tradition is not something that is received as a legacy, but rather something that is built everyday.” - Gae Aulenti
Aulenti’s adaptive re-use projects are more and more pertinent to our everyday.
Eg her masterful transformation of railway station to Musee D’Orsay.
Aulenti’s adaptive re-use projects are more and more pertinent to our everyday.
Eg her masterful transformation of railway station to Musee D’Orsay.
March 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
“Tradition is not something that is received as a legacy, but rather something that is built everyday.” - Gae Aulenti
Aulenti’s adaptive re-use projects are more and more pertinent to our everyday.
Eg her masterful transformation of railway station to Musee D’Orsay.
Aulenti’s adaptive re-use projects are more and more pertinent to our everyday.
Eg her masterful transformation of railway station to Musee D’Orsay.
Clifton Towers. 1963.
A wedge shaped block of 9 apartments by Architects Lewis Martin and George Porter.
One of several excellent towers along Oriental Parade in Wellington, NZ.
A wedge shaped block of 9 apartments by Architects Lewis Martin and George Porter.
One of several excellent towers along Oriental Parade in Wellington, NZ.
March 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Clifton Towers. 1963.
A wedge shaped block of 9 apartments by Architects Lewis Martin and George Porter.
One of several excellent towers along Oriental Parade in Wellington, NZ.
A wedge shaped block of 9 apartments by Architects Lewis Martin and George Porter.
One of several excellent towers along Oriental Parade in Wellington, NZ.
Almost there:
144 new dwellings in North Richmond for Homes Victoria.
Architect designed for high amenity, high performance, safe, secure, accessible & modern public housing.
1, 2 and 3 bedrooms.
We hope it offers a welcome & inclusive homecoming to residents, reflective of this community.
144 new dwellings in North Richmond for Homes Victoria.
Architect designed for high amenity, high performance, safe, secure, accessible & modern public housing.
1, 2 and 3 bedrooms.
We hope it offers a welcome & inclusive homecoming to residents, reflective of this community.
March 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Almost there:
144 new dwellings in North Richmond for Homes Victoria.
Architect designed for high amenity, high performance, safe, secure, accessible & modern public housing.
1, 2 and 3 bedrooms.
We hope it offers a welcome & inclusive homecoming to residents, reflective of this community.
144 new dwellings in North Richmond for Homes Victoria.
Architect designed for high amenity, high performance, safe, secure, accessible & modern public housing.
1, 2 and 3 bedrooms.
We hope it offers a welcome & inclusive homecoming to residents, reflective of this community.
Very good use of balustrade
February 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Very good use of balustrade
Eucalyptus cneorifolia, the Kangaroo Island narrow-leaf mallee.
In silhouette such magnificent road tracery.
In silhouette such magnificent road tracery.
February 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Eucalyptus cneorifolia, the Kangaroo Island narrow-leaf mallee.
In silhouette such magnificent road tracery.
In silhouette such magnificent road tracery.
Loved seeing people occupying tram tracks at Collingwood Fitzroy border.
Very chilled celebration & street takeover 👏👏👏
#midsumma #pridestreetfestival
Very chilled celebration & street takeover 👏👏👏
#midsumma #pridestreetfestival
February 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Loved seeing people occupying tram tracks at Collingwood Fitzroy border.
Very chilled celebration & street takeover 👏👏👏
#midsumma #pridestreetfestival
Very chilled celebration & street takeover 👏👏👏
#midsumma #pridestreetfestival
A mighty firm corner holding street and lane edge. More on the merits of no setbacks. Otter and Smith Streets Collingwood.
What a couple of elevations too.
What a couple of elevations too.
February 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A mighty firm corner holding street and lane edge. More on the merits of no setbacks. Otter and Smith Streets Collingwood.
What a couple of elevations too.
What a couple of elevations too.
What ever happened to the joy of home coming?
Entry remiss
Entry remiss
January 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
What ever happened to the joy of home coming?
Entry remiss
Entry remiss
Oh Canberra you do make it hard to walk.
Having crossed Lake BG via Commonwealth Avenue Bridge this is the obstacle between walker and ‘City’. Yes in part due to roadworks but still it will be a perilous, multi lane crossing.
Having crossed Lake BG via Commonwealth Avenue Bridge this is the obstacle between walker and ‘City’. Yes in part due to roadworks but still it will be a perilous, multi lane crossing.
January 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Oh Canberra you do make it hard to walk.
Having crossed Lake BG via Commonwealth Avenue Bridge this is the obstacle between walker and ‘City’. Yes in part due to roadworks but still it will be a perilous, multi lane crossing.
Having crossed Lake BG via Commonwealth Avenue Bridge this is the obstacle between walker and ‘City’. Yes in part due to roadworks but still it will be a perilous, multi lane crossing.
What a waste of the front verandah. Bins in place of furniture.
Time to centralize rubbish into street or block collection points.
Return the verandah to people for their engagement with & enjoyment of street life.
Time to centralize rubbish into street or block collection points.
Return the verandah to people for their engagement with & enjoyment of street life.
January 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
What a waste of the front verandah. Bins in place of furniture.
Time to centralize rubbish into street or block collection points.
Return the verandah to people for their engagement with & enjoyment of street life.
Time to centralize rubbish into street or block collection points.
Return the verandah to people for their engagement with & enjoyment of street life.
What???
Even more street frontage dedicated to the accommodation of cars???
Even more concessions of street design to the very vehicles linked to pedestrian injury???
Wrong answer. A sure way to further diminish new streets.
Downsize cars. Limit large ones to work /rural use.
Even more street frontage dedicated to the accommodation of cars???
Even more concessions of street design to the very vehicles linked to pedestrian injury???
Wrong answer. A sure way to further diminish new streets.
Downsize cars. Limit large ones to work /rural use.
January 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
What???
Even more street frontage dedicated to the accommodation of cars???
Even more concessions of street design to the very vehicles linked to pedestrian injury???
Wrong answer. A sure way to further diminish new streets.
Downsize cars. Limit large ones to work /rural use.
Even more street frontage dedicated to the accommodation of cars???
Even more concessions of street design to the very vehicles linked to pedestrian injury???
Wrong answer. A sure way to further diminish new streets.
Downsize cars. Limit large ones to work /rural use.
Noticing how useful a dead tree is to cockies - beak sharpening, general preening, coastal prospect. Now keen to retain what I wrongfully thought - as dead wood - should go.
January 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Noticing how useful a dead tree is to cockies - beak sharpening, general preening, coastal prospect. Now keen to retain what I wrongfully thought - as dead wood - should go.
The perfection of summer shade from trees.
How about more of this simple solution for our housing estates?
How about more of this simple solution for our housing estates?
January 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The perfection of summer shade from trees.
How about more of this simple solution for our housing estates?
How about more of this simple solution for our housing estates?
Ominous sun-through-cloud with intense Melbourne heat. Feels bushfire filtered.
December 20, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Ominous sun-through-cloud with intense Melbourne heat. Feels bushfire filtered.
Glazed wedding cake with heritage base not the answer. #thetroublewithsetbacks
November 16, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Glazed wedding cake with heritage base not the answer. #thetroublewithsetbacks
Clare Cousins presenting Nightingale Village to the super jury. In the running for building of the year at @worldarchfest 2024
#housingmatters #betterdensity
#housingmatters #betterdensity
November 8, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Clare Cousins presenting Nightingale Village to the super jury. In the running for building of the year at @worldarchfest 2024
#housingmatters #betterdensity
#housingmatters #betterdensity