Winner – Heritage/adaptive Reuse
Winner - Alterations/additions up to $250K
Winner - Paul Dass Memorial Award
Building Designers Australia NSW Awards
Finalist - Best Heritage
Building Designers Association of Australia Awards
Winner - Best New Development Involving Heritage
Canada Bay City Council Design Awards
The Daily Telegraph - Home Magazine
"Sense and Sustainability"
Creewood Heritage Home – Award-Winning Heritage & Sustainable Design NSW
This award-winning heritage renovation in Concord, NSW, demonstrates Distinct Innovations’ expertise in heritage-sensitive residential design, custom design homes, and sustainable home design. Winner of multiple awards including Heritage/Adaptive Reuse, Alterations & Additions up to $250K, and the Paul Dass Memorial Award, the project carefully balances modern living with heritage preservation.
Set on a Conservation-listed site, the home features a stepped modern glass rear extension with open-plan living, a new kitchen, dining, and family areas, designed to maximise northern sunlight, daylight, and thermal comfort. High-performance glazing, polished concrete floors, and a retractable alfresco roof create an energy-efficient, light-filled home that integrates seamlessly with the existing structure and natural environment, while maintaining heritage integrity.
This project highlights our ability to deliver bespoke, sustainable, and heritage-conscious custom design homes for families across NSW.
What the Client Said
Our brief was to challenge the expected and to create a light filled space for an active family and to do so within the confines that are placed over Conservation and heritage listed properties. From the moment we met Luke, we could say nothing less than what a joy it was to work with him. He beautifully navigated the Heritage office of our local council and the perfect balance he achieved between the old and new is a credit to him. Luke by nature is extremely professional, punctual, communicative and extraordinarily talented. The key ingredients you need in a Building Designer. All of these critical traits are wrapped up in extensive knowledge of sustainability and how to eco-build, something that was very important to us in the design of our property. Luke’s expertise delivered us a gorgeous looking home that uses nature through the saturation of light and glass and louvers meaning that our home requires no synthetic cooling in summer and very minimal heating in winter. It is a beautiful and easy space to live in. Quite simply there is something very special about Luke Van Jour. He has a finely tuned sense of the nuances that can take a home from ‘lovely’ to ‘WOW’. We are already thinking about ways to work with him again in the future on our next adventure.
- Sean & Tabitha, Creewood