Winner 2024 Hunter Affordable Housing

Winner 2024 Hunter Specialised Housing

Finalist 2025 HIA Australian Specialised Housing

Since its inception in 2005, ELK has been quietly but steadily shaping spaces with a commitment to inclusivity and collaboration. Straying away from the typical corporate rhetoric, ELK’s journey tells a story of growth, adaptability, and a genuine passion for architectural excellence.

“At ELK, we enjoy what we do. We value the equal and inclusive involvement of all parties, from staff to client, with an emphasis on balance, teamwork, and communication,” says ELK’s Managing Director Luke Stone, emphasising a genuine commitment to a collaborative approach to design.

From its modest beginnings, ELK has grown into an architectural firm known for its dedication to achieving outcomes that seamlessly blend functionality with aesthetics. With a focus on detail and an understated sophistication, ELK has left its mark across various architectural typologies.

Over the years, ELK has demonstrated its versatility in projects as both architects and interior designers ranging from bespoke residential, multi-residential, commercial developments and fit-outs, corporate offices to retail establishments, hospitality, industrial developments, mixed-use, master-planning, alterations and additions, civic projects & aged care.

As ELK celebrates nearly two decades of architectural excellence in 2024, the company remains committed to pushing the boundaries of design innovation while upholding its core values of inclusivity, collaboration, and integrity. Each project undertaken by ELK Architecture reflects a genuine passion for creating spaces that resonate with their users, leaving a lasting impact that goes beyond mere aesthetics.

The ELK interiors team is a passionate, collaborative and dynamic group of designers. There are always new ideas floating around, and problem-solving conversations bubbling away as we strive to create the best possible spaces for our clients.

Our interiors team have extensive experience across diverse typologies, places and clients. The team is led by Senior designers, Lucy Novak & Genevieve De Champlain. Both designers bring over 15 years of professional experience in the architectural design industry. The team also works closely with ELK’s Design Director, Daniel Hadley who brings a wealth of knowledge, design direction and technical oversight to our diverse team. Their insight and expertise are key to pushing the team’s designs to a high level and ensuring the client will be truly satisfied with the end result.

Our growing team of talented designers and drafters have a diverse mix of experience across various sectors including; hospitality, transport & aviation, education, healthcare, retail, residential, multi-dwelling residential  & workplace, in both the Interior Design & Architectural fields.

Our knowledge in commercial and residential space planning, interior detailing and custom joinery ensures we constantly push the envelope to bring an enriched and refined space. We are skilled at tailoring a design to maximise the potential of a project with the aim to design spaces to reflect our clients, and enhance their brand or space.

ELK’s design team since that day have created an incredible space that we can very proudly say, is almost complete. The pavilion style design separates the private areas from semi- private, each with its own unique experience of the surrounding beauty. The home captures the natural splendour of the area, references the farm shed vernacular, and gives a nod to the old milking sheds of the dairy and former homestead once on the site.

One of the most interesting and unique features of the home, and certainly a learning curve for us at ELK, is the large, rammed earth wall, acting as a spine to the home, connecting the building to the site. It creates a sense of anticipation immediately on arrival and a tactile experience as you pass through the entire house.

Finishing touches have being applied, with features such as the hand cut timber brick entry way, and a bathtub that was hand carved from stone and sits in the curve of the rammed earth wall. The same rammed earth wall continues though the wine cellar, where wine bottles will sit nestled in the earth wall to keep cool.

The opportunity to work on such a home, will be a highlight for ELK Designs for many years to come. Our team was so fortunate to be able to learn from these unique clients and to be able to utilise our creativity, and design skills in such an incredible way! Projects like this are the reason we love what we do!!

The unprecedented times that 2020 thrust us into has changed the way we live and operate in our day to day lives. Over the last 12 months we have learnt the importance of creating spaces around us that bring comfort, and now more than ever our home has become our sanctuary. 

Many of us now live, work and socialise predominantly in our own homes, so it has become essential that the spaces in our homes provide us with 24/7 liveability and bring a sense of comfort. A lot of us used to just sleep and shower in our spaces, but now we are investing more time and money into making the space we live in a space that feels like a sanctuary from the outside world, and a space that also brings us joy. 

The sense of joy is different for everybody but one of the main trends of 2021 is a push towards the use of colour, with a move away from beige and grey and we’ll see more pinks, terracotta, greens and blues. Be adventurous with your space and consider injecting colour, texture, organic materials and a mix of old and new which helps to create layering and warmth for a more grounded aesthetic.