Hi Friends, We have some VERY, VERY exciting news to share with you all. Bleuscape Design’s new website is live!! Have you ever wanted to contribute to design outcomes? Our new site allows YOU to have a voice. The concept is simple… Under the projects section contribute your ideas and thoughts. We value your life […]
As many of you know we have been running Bleuscape Design, our small architectural business for the best part of 8 years. Considering this, we have been reflecting on the design values and intensions of the firm. One major and significant observation has been our ever growing interest in design for the masses. While the […]
This first half of 2013 has been somewhat of a turbulent time in the life of Brisbane design with the shuffling and merging of small personal firms with larger businesses. There has been a few months of waiting and watching to see what emerges out of this climate (see Peter Were’s Design Online article). For […]
Challenge : To design a house with environmental sensitivity in a typical green-fill subdivision? Introducing the ‘Crossroad Concept’. In essence, the idea draws influence from a reality that we engage with daily; the bitumen cross road. This man-made environment is a space controlled by […]
Our company is currently engaged in designing a house that is modular in its construction for a site that is defined by strict subdivision parameters. The challenge, from a spatial point of view, is to design appropriately within what is a very ordered environment. We do this by emphasising the courtyard in all different directions. That […]
The austere aesthetic of the traditional Queenslander can be used as a template for measuring detail, say the practitioners of Owen and Vokes. Italian architect Carlo Scarpa was reputed to have begun each of his commissions by attending to the design of the door handles. This approach may seem […]
In late 2011 the famous American architect, Peter Eisenman known for his intellectual and theoretical approach to design and teaching presented a lecture to the students and faculty of Sci-arc, Southern California’s prestigious architectural school. The lecture was titled ‘Project or Practice?’ Eisenman made […]
There is a beautiful restrained elegance in the work of Brisbane architectural firm Owen and Vokes. Their ‘4-room Cottage’ recently took out ‘House of the Year’ in Brisbane’s Regional Architecture Awards (2012). It is wonderful to see small refined buildings receiving the big gongs in contrast to the normal high-tech mansions that so often feature. What […]
MORE Queenslanders are downsizing to medium-density homes, new research shows. Figures from recent Census data and research by Bankwest found 38 per cent of home approvals in Queensland in the last 12 months were for medium-density dwellings. This is up from 32 per cent in 2006 and includes units, townhouses and semi-detached houses. Bankwest Retail […]
If architecture does not change the way the ninety-seven percent live, then it only emphasises the difference between the have’s and the have-nots and therefore is ultimately destructive upon the very culture it seeks to impact. – Anthony Rigg of Bleuscape Design