South-West elevation, Lake Weyba House, Sunshine Coast

Bath house and bedroom pavilions, with outdoor seating area in foreground.

North-West elevation, Brannigan House, St Lucia, Brisbane

Facing front of site. Carport underneath house, entry steps on left.

West elevation, Sunshine Beach House, Sunshine Coast

Part of western rear facade with fenestrations.

View along gallery to West, Goetz Residence, Buderim, Sunshine Coast

As seen from dining room.

West (side) and north (rear) elevations, public housing, Cotton Tree Housing Estate, Maroochydore

This pilot project at Cotton Tree, Maroochydore, on two adjacent, linear parcels of land has one of the properties privately owned while the other is owned by the public housing authority. Both owners commissioned Lindsay and Kerry Clare to design housing for their separate needs which enabled the two projects to be governed by a single planning and design strategy. This entailed the realignment of the dividing boundary to form two approximately square blocks which made possible the retention of an important stand of mature paperbark trees and gave each block a more useful street frontage. The scheme provides seven two-bedroom units and one single-bedroom unit as the private component, with six single-bedroom units, three two-bedroom units and two three-bedroom units forming the public housing. The dwellings are deployed as an interlaced mat of freestanding blocks, car courts, courtyard gardens, patios and decks. The key distinction between the public and private parts of the scheme is the pooling of the car parking spaces in the public housing to create a shared courtyard. The housing climbs to three storeys on its southern edge and falls to a single storey on the north-western corner. This enables all units and the principal private outdoor spaces to have a northern orientation. The interiors of both the public and private units are skilfully arranged to take full advantage of views, light and breeze.

West elevation, Hammond House, Cooran, Sunshine Coast

Windowless elevation facing uphill. Living room and bedroom study/storage alcove to South elevation on right.

South-west elevation, Prasser House, Buderim

As seem from the street.

North-west elevation, Carpenter Hall house, Wilston, Brisbane

House in foreground, with view to city beyond.

North-West elevation, Smeeton Residence, Buderim

Street (North-West) elevation.

South-west elevation, Addison House, Brisbane

View of south-west elevation through house to rear deck.

A class of compact dwarf galaxies from disruptive processes in galaxy clusters

Dwarf galaxies have attracted increased attention in recent years, because of their susceptibility to galaxy transformation processes within rich galaxy clusters. Direct evidence for these processes, however, has been difficult to obtain, with a small number of diffuse light trails and intra-cluster stars, being the only signs of galaxy disruption. Furthermore, our current knowledge of dwarf galaxy populations may be very incomplete, because traditional galaxy surveys are insensitive to extremely diffuse or compact galaxies. Aware of these concerns, we recently undertook an all-object survey of the Fornax galaxy cluster. This revealed a new population of compact members, overlooked in previous conventional surveys. Here we demonstrate that these 'ultra-compact' dwarf galaxies are structurally and dynamically distinct from both globular star clusters and known types of dwarf galaxy, and thus represent a new class of dwarf galaxy. Our data are consistent with the interpretation that these are the remnant nuclei of disrupted dwarf galaxies, making them an easily observed tracer of galaxy disruption.

North-west elevation, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

North-west elevation as seen from library forecourt.

North-west elevation and entrance court, Sunshine Coast University Library, Maroochydore

View of entrance court under construction, with north-west elevation behind.