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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 …
A Man’s Cave
So here’s the thing. A man’s home is meant to be his castle. Well, it is for people like my neighbors in Hamilton. They seem to be engaged in a …
Queenslanderrr!!
You’re an idiot, Steve. You can’t live in a house like that. It’s not suited to our climate and anyway, the local approvals officer will have a coronary or a …
You Get Perspective 40 Floors Up
I have an affliction. I call it secondthoughtitis. Its symptoms are insidious: it flares up the moment I commit to an idea and it eats away at my resolve until …
Seeing Land From Above
Clear thoughts happen when you’re flying places. That cliché about taking a helicopter view of your life is real. Issues that seem like insurmountable barriers from below tend to shrink …
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 …
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 …