Bark is a Sunshine Coast based design practice directed by architects Lindy Atkin and Stephen Guthrie. They have worked together since 1997 after winning a competition to design the Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, which provided the catalyst to establish Bark.

Bark Design Architects are now working through their second decade of design projects in South East Queensland as an energetic and collaborative team of seven people, working from a custom designed Noosa hinterland ‘barefoot’ studio. Their most recent completed project is the Noosa Visitor Information Centre in Hastings Street.

Atkin and Guthrie draw from their international architectural experience, having studied and worked in the USA, Bahamas, London, Melbourne and Sydney. Bark has designed projects in Australia for international clients in Romania, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Switzerland, Canada and the USA. Projects have been awarded, widely published and exhibited in Australia and internationally, recently at GOMA’s Place Makers exhibition.

Bark’s design approach carefully considers the landscape, particular microclimates and unlocking the ‘spirit’ of each site, with projects focused on the broader intention of enhancing people’s lives through contemporary design which reveal the essential and nurturing qualities of ‘place’.

Like bark, our architecture is an environmental living, growing, and changing skin or structure which offers protection whilst affording our clients a sensitive and inextricable link to the landscape they inhabit.