Emotion can render all manner of situations uncomfortable. A relationship break-up, bidding on a dream home at auction…
or the merger of three architectural practices comprising 400 employees. Senior management of The Buchan Group, unified and rebranded as Buchan since May, recognised several years ago that a merger was in everyone’s best interest. But they also […]
Brisbane-based prefabricated home company Happy Haus has designed a home with a central lush courtyard that takes advantage of the South East Queensland sub-tropical climate. The clients, a young couple building for the first time, wanted an open courtyard-style home on their medium-sized block, which is closely bordered by the estates’ project-style-homes. To meet their needs, Happy […]
After a six-month global search, Green Spine by Dutch architecture firm UNStudio and Melbourne-based Cox Architecture has been announced as the winning design for the Southbank by Beulah competition. Conceived as a “conceptual extension” of Melbourne’s Southbank Boulevard, the Green Spine will be home to a vertical city of green spaces with a strong focus […]
Some would find working alongside their partner a sure path to divorce, but Rosa Coy and George Yiontis says the only drawbacks are talking about work too much at home and organising family holidays… There are many different business models for an architecture practice, but one of the most fraught, surely, would be one run […]
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