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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
When I tell my friends that I’ve commissioned a Japanese architect to design a minimalist monument to moi I know they’re thinking, “here we go again”. I know they’re wondering …
It’s not unexpected that there are as many stairs as there will be stares with this house. I’ve looked long and hard at the latest 3-D visuals of my Minimalist …