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The Beginning
Ok, so this is how it happened. I got selfish. There’s no other way to describe how I arrived at this moment in time. I have good reasons to be …
A Bridge Too Far?
Before we go too far, let’s take a step back, to a time when I was happy and accommodating others’ opinions. As an escape from the compromises of loved up …
Privacy Out The Window
There’s a thing called the pre-1946 rule in Brisbane. The town planners use it. To approve a development, they often refer to an aerial photograph taken of Brisbane in 1946, …
Steve Stadium
Dear Arne Jacobsen. Dear Charles and Ray Eames. Dear Le Corbusier. I’m leaving you. Goodbye. Though I appreciate your looks, hell, everybody down at the reproduction shop does anyway; I’m …
Local inPhormation
I’m no Tokyo virgin. I’ve been there a bit over the years. The first time I went, I was that wide-eyed guy with the camera, the phrase book and the …
Under the microscope of an architect.
Yo Shimada arrived in Brisbane last Friday with his colleague Chie Konno to begin the process of designing the Minimalist Monument to Moi. In the interest of tight-arse frugality, I …
Get Out Of My Sky!
I’m short. I spend my life looking up at people and I don’t like it. Though I try not to look up to tall people I can’t help feeling envious …
Trailer Park Life. How Moi.
There’s something liberating about minimalism, freeing yourself from the responsibility of all your possessions. Well, not all your possessions. There are some things that I just can’t do without. A …
Having a “P” on Hamilton Hill.
If you have a “P” you piss money away. A “P” is the sort of classification you hope you never get when you commission a soil report on a site …
Living takes imagination.
Have you ever tried to listen to the words of an architect and then visualise them as something you can live in, walk around in, cook a meal in, socialise …