Comments on: Mornington nursing home by Lyons Architects

By: Alexis Harrison

Alexis Harrison — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:07:19 +0000

Beautiful facade! It’s great to see such a sensitive understanding of the material – brick is so often brutal and hard but this is soft, warm, organic and analogous of the surrounding geology. Wish they’d use brick like this here in England

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:24:25 +0000

Can someone please point out a nursing home as cutting edge in design anywhere in Aus? I know the bricks here are a little kitch and the notion of natural light in the corridor is a little fictional, but the overall form is nice. Yes, the rooms are more important!

By: urban

urban — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:29:23 +0000

yup, I agree with bozo – lyons is getting better and better…

the brick patterning gives the building a dynamic yet diffuse effect stretching and softening the hard geometry…. nice

By: Paul, Yorkshire

Paul, Yorkshire — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:21:37 +0000

Looks like the layers of rock when they excavate the ground.
Wish id designed it, great architecture.

By: leandro locsin

leandro locsin — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:29:27 +0000

Let bricks be bricks and wood be wood.

The pattern of the brick (pretending to be wood) destroyed the silhouette of form. it lost its integrity.

By: abyssinian

abyssinian — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:28:56 +0000

I’m in love… so soothing and witty.

By: Bozo

Bozo — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:17:02 +0000

Good stuff. The facade and everything else.
Totally aware of the Australian condition.
Lyons get better and better.

By: edward

edward — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:40:55 +0000

“Generous corridors open up to the outside bringing in natural ventilation and light”

I’m not seeing that on the plan except at one location, a seating area off one corridor. The corridor shot is nothing to brag on, to me. Looks grim. I’m sceptical on the brick but would have to see the context. It reminds it me of camouflage, like a Luftwaffe ME 109 in desert service.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:06:34 +0000

IMO, the earth tones and suggestion of natural materials do a wonderful job of making this building look welcoming and cozy from the outside. But the one interior shot does look terribly hospitalish.

By: Fling

Fling — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:32:05 +0000

“The language used to describe the workings of this facility is perhaps more akin to that of a hotel than a nursing home.”
Until it come to “checking out”, I imagine. You can’t dress that baby up.

Also enjoy the technique of making ‘brick’ appear like ‘timber’. I constructed a similar trompe l’oeil once, where I cunningly disguised my ‘Mondeo’ as a ‘Micra’.