The Olive Estate Lifestyle Village is a large-scale residential community resort of architecturally designed homes and apartments in Richmond. Construction of this resort-style retirement community started in 2014. To date completed 112 villas, 28 terrace houses, four three-level carriage houses and a community Centre have been completed. Additional villas, an apartment block and an extensive care facility will be started in 2022.

The Lakehouse is the centre of the community at Olive Estate Lifestyle Village, a place where residents and the wider community can meet, relax, and socialise. The café features a vaulted ceiling with exposed timber and steel trusses, with French bi-fold doors from the café creating a seamless indoor-outdoor flow. The Lakehouse was a highly complex build of mostly pre-nail timber frame and trusses (truncated) that required a high degree of accuracy and superior craftsmanship.

Other challenges included the pool ventilation system which was integrated into the water run-off channelsurrounding the pool. A highlight of the build is the overall scale which has been disguised through the clever use of variation in form, materials, and textures.

The 3 storey carriage houses would not be something that you would not normally expect to see within a Lifestyle village let alone having 80 year old owners. This is testament to the quality of the design, finish and appointment of the units.