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Breaking Ground
With the construction contract signed and all planning and building permissions in place we’re now breaking ground on site. This is the heavy machinery phase of the build and there’s …
Over the Internet vs Over Dinner.
My first contact with Yo Shimada was by email. We spoke about the idea of working together on my house in Australia. Though we spoke at length, swapping ideas and …
We Have Your Size In Japan.
You know what I love about Japan? Buying clothes that fit me, right off the rack, that’s what. It’s a luxury you standard-model-sized-Euro-Australians take for granted, but imagine you had …
I want my ma.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
