Profile

Oscar Sainsbury Architects (OSA) creates honest, tactile and beautiful spaces that celebrate the value of everyday life. We believe architecture is best realised as an interaction between the built and natural environments and that landscape, climate and materiality of a place are fundamental to the design process. 

OSA works in diverse urban, rural and coastal locations and practices across a number of scales, seeing a value in linking the ideas of a single project to larger scale environmental and urban considerations. We do this through research into the existing site, surrounding landscape, social and cultural context, combined with experience and understanding in the process of making and building. This method is both theoretical and practical, and results in buildings that are thoughtful and considered in their resolution. 

OSA acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters on which we practice and pay respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging. 

Contact

a: 1/180 Brunswick St, Fitzroy 3065
m: +61 403 100 256
e: info@oscarsainsbury.com
ig: @oscarsainsburyarchitects

Registration

ARBV: 600083
ABN: 90 653 043 219
ACN: 653 043 219

Awards

2023

OSA
AIA VIC Architecture Awards, Shortlist (Emerging Architect)
Houses Awards, Commendation (Emerging Architect)

Lily’s Shed
AIA VIC Architecture Awards, Commendation (Small Project)
Houses Awards, Shortlist (Garden or Landscape)

Hollywood
Houses Awards, Shortlist (House – Alterations and Additions)

2022

Arthur
AIA VIC Architecture Awards, Award (Residential Architecture) 
Houses Awards, Commendation (House – Alterations and Additions)
Architeam Awards, Commendation (Residential Alterations and Additions)

Media

2023

Bronwyn Marshall, ‘Textured Coastal‘, The Local Project
Georgia Birks, ‘Hollywood’, Houses, Issue 148
OSA lecture, ‘NAM 39’, New Architects Melbourne, July
Penny Craswell, ‘Hearth of the home’, Houses Kitchens + Bathrooms, Issue 17
Arthur published on The Design Files
Stephen Crafti, ‘Thinking Outside the Box’, Open Journal
Nikita Bhopti, ‘Arthur’, Architect Victoria, Edition 3/2022, and Edition Cover

2022

Five Phillip Island holiday homes, Architecture AU
Adair Winder, ‘Lily’s Shed’, Architecture AU
Oscar Sainsbury, ‘What I like about you’, Green Magazine, Issue 92
Kath Dolan, ‘With the Flow’, Green Magazine, Issue 90
Arthur published on Arch Daily
Hollywood published on Divisare
Hollywood published on Arch Daily
Hollywood published on Dwell

2021 

Bronwyn Marshall, ‘Outwardly Engaged’, The Local Project
Arthur published on Divisare
Leopold published on Divisare

Oscar Sainsbury Architects