As seen in the Master Buliders Magazine

Conceptual design for a fantastic site over looking the new Port of Airlie Marina at Airlie Beach. The beautiful Whitsunday Islands create an inspiring setting for our new minimal home to feature, VM Zinc, Polished concrete and exposed structural steel. Clear open spaces are designed to offer the ultimate in outdoor living.

SBT Designs have been awarded for the best residential home over 450m2 in the Queensland Building Design Awards for 2010. The state award recognises the amazing design for the home that stretches across the ridge of the site and speads out with sweeping terraces that have soft curved edges. The home has a grandeur from entry gates and the winding road that leads you up the ridge passing through grassed fields and skirting the treed ridge line. The building appears with a bold form and has an organic grounding with the base landscaping walls of stacked local stone. The port cochere entry features a grand scale and uses recycled timber posts and beams as does the entry gates frame. The main living room features a setdown floor to provide an intimate formal living space and the use of the wrap around seating offers a great social gathering space. The increased ceiling height in the living room create a hierarchy of the dominance in the overall spacial planning of the home. The lounge space also features a two way wood fire place, shared with the formal dining. As with every section of the home the refinement of the dining is evident in the addition of the concealed wood store that is accessible from the living room and has a second external access to allow for easy restocking of the fire wood as sourced from the site. The outdoor rooms have been design to provide soft genital curves that point out towards the views focal points. The curved terraces create an organic flow to the building and provide a calming transition between each outdoor space. Stepping pads across the water, gas flares and water movement both internal and external complete the engagement of the senses as the flow through the home becomes and journey that plays with light, space and sound.

Braeden Constructions have taken out the Queensland Master Builders 2010 Sunshine Coast Regional Awards for House of the Year for the 2nd year running.

The Tunba House has been awarded the following awards in the Sunshine Coast Region :

The award recognises the level of detail and craftsmanship that Braeden Constructions have applied in the completion of the project. The continual pride in the work is a credit to Mick Devlin and his team of builders.