The Skylight House

The facade of this house in Balmain, Sydney, overlooking the Parramatta River across to Cockatoo Island, is a mere foil for the architectural drama inside.              For behind its frilly Victorian facade stands a finely considered and refined modern house, stepping up over three and half levels, remarkable for a deeply folded […]

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Jed’s ‘Concert Hall’

Quite unexpectedly we have received so much feedback on Jed’s design since it was posted on Archdaily that we thought it would be great to showcase some more of his recent work. http://www.archdaily.com/238243/can-your-4-year-old-make-google-sketchup-masterpieces/ Thanks to all those that have commented and tweeted messages, we are blown away! This design Jed has called ‘The Concert Hall’. […]

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Jed’s Masterpiece

Recently, my four-year-old son Jed has been expressing interest in what I do for a living, so yesterday I decided to start teaching him the basics of Google Sketch-up (3D design software). He grasped the fundamentals very quickly and learned how to navigate with the mouse, produce forms and change their colours. I let him muck […]

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The manifestation of relevance

I remember well the first time I experienced first hand a home designed not for its looks but rather for the experience within. It was my birthday and my wife Jaki had brought me a seat on a bus to an architecture tour. With many other people we travelled to a number of beautiful well known […]

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