Building & Interior Architecture · Sydney
Montenove is a Sydney-based design studio crafting buildings and interiors that are precise in form, generous in feeling, and built to outlast the moment.
Selected Work
Mass, shadow and the logic of concealment
A bold residential proposition defined by sculptural concrete volumes, a deeply recessed entry, and an architecture that reveals itself slowly. Street-facing walls read as monolithic mass while the rear opens entirely to pool, garden, and borrowed landscape. The curvilinear entry portal mediates between public threshold and private interior.
Builder, client and site details are private.
A complete building and interior proposition
Building and interior architecture resolved as one integrated language. Polished concrete floors, warm timber joinery, a feature marble kitchen island, and custom stone bathroom finishes are woven into a spatial sequence that moves from formal entry to open living with discipline and generosity. The fireplace wall grounds the open-plan layout as a considered anchor around which the rest flows.
Builder, client and site details are private.
Textured mass and the sculpted street edge
Two dwellings sharing a material world. Bush-hammered rendered facades, curved volumetric forms, and deep shadow reveals compose an architecture that reads as sculpture from the street. The boundary wall and entry gates echo the facade language, drawing the composition down to the ground plane. At the rear, a private pool courtyard opens the project to light, garden, and sky.
Builder, client and site details are private.
Limestone, black steel and an ordered calm
A refined two-storey residence set behind a restrained street edge of limestone masonry and black vertical steel screening. The upper volume floats above a recessed ground plane, anchored by a single entry gate and composed planting. The rear wraps around a generous pool terrace with frameless glass fencing, a seamless transition from interior living to outdoor leisure. Materiality throughout is consistent: honed stone, curtain glass, and a near-total absence of decoration.
Builder, client and site details are private.
Interior Architecture
A residential interior defined by deep forest green cabinetry, aged brass hardware, and a striking green-veined stone island. The palette moves between warmth and drama — burnished patinated panels meet mosaic-tiled arched niches and custom bar joinery with lit shelving reveals.
A sculptural stair enclosed in a continuous plaster volume, lit from above through a skylight void. The living spaces beyond are anchored by a full-width fireplace and a restrained palette of white plaster, natural oak, and marble. Furniture is curated, not decorated.
A kitchen resolved around a slab of Calacatta marble that runs from island to full-height splashback. Limed oak joinery, reeded glass cabinetry, and bronze hardware bring warmth against the stone. Chevron oak floors extend the material conversation underfoot throughout the ground level.
The Studio
Montenove is a Sydney-based building and interior architecture studio working across residential, multi-dwelling, and mixed-use projects in New South Wales.
Every project begins with deep listening, to the site, the brief, and the people we are designing for. We work lean and close to our clients, bringing the same rigour to a bathroom renovation as to a six-unit development.
What We Do
Concept through full construction documentation, coordinated with structural, hydraulic, and specialist consultants.
Spatial planning, material selection, joinery documentation, and finish specifications resolved as one integrated design.
Dual occupancy, terrace rows, and medium-density projects from feasibility through planning approval in NSW.
Development Applications, CDC assessments, and council liaison across Sydney and NSW councils.
Photorealistic renders and spatial studies to communicate design intent to clients, planning bodies, and builders.
Active site involvement and builder coordination to ensure the design is faithfully realised from slab to handover.
A well-designed space is not noticed. It is simply felt. The light falls right, the room breathes, and the people inside it feel, without knowing why, that they are exactly where they should be.
Get In Touch
We work with a select number of clients each year. Whether you have a site, a brief, a budget, or simply an idea, we'd like to hear from you.