The original dairy farm character of the Sunshine Coast is rapidly disappearing. These heritage values have been reinterpreted to rejuvenate “Mountview” – a Kenilworth icon pioneered by the Pickering family in 1870. A dilapidated homestead has been refurbished in an interventionalist manner rather than purist methodology. The new concept uses a configuration of pavilions and breezeways to produce a rural colonnade encapsulating an informal semi- circular courtyard. The new extroverted buildings, whilst respecting the introverted homestead icon owe more to pastoral utilitarian buildings rather than the peaked roof Georgian derivative. The final result embraces a new living and working pattern for this rural site.