Breathe – Adjustable Architecture

“Like the bud of a flower, change forces you to surrender to growth. It makes you vulnerable. It requires you to enlarge, expand and become bigger. Like the oxygen provided with each breath, we are denied its benefits until we relax and breathe in.”  – Stella Payton Spatial flexibility allows one to breathe.  The light, the […]

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4-Room Cottage – Owen and Vokes

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 […]

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