Sail House

It’s interesting what you find when flicking through old computer files. The Sail House was a home that I designed back in 2002, unfortunately it was never realised. At that stage we didn’t have 3d software, all the images being in elevation and plan only. I thought that it would be interesting to convert it […]

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Veranda Urbanism Design Research

The Queensland House is barely a house, its actually just clad structure and micro-climate. With simply structural bracing on the outside to which is nailed tongue and grove boards and then with veranda’s all the way around, it can seem barely a house simply an expression of the weather, maybe a dialectic with it. And […]

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The Outdoor Room

Queensland offers so many beautiful places to choose from when buying or renovating a house. In this case, we were asked to do a small but unique renovation to the rear of a duplex building. My clients live on the water in a stunning part of the northern Goldcoast region. The property faces due north […]

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A labour of LOVE

It hardly seems appropriate to be showing some of my own work after posting a blog on Louis Kahn, however I do want to let you in on what we have been up to and share the story behind the ‘Valentine House’. As many of you may know Jaki, the kids and I live in […]

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The impact of architecture for place

The well know saying “We are what we eat” obviously talks about one’s physical health in relation to food consumption but what about “We are what we build.” Let’s think about this for a moment, if we construct homes that have their planning arrangements centred on unknown future circumstances that often take the safest, most […]

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