Category: People
"Often it's the little detail here or concept there; that cool idea you got the client to agree to, that component or part of the programme that brings a sense of play, something that makes you stop and say, 'Cool'." ADR meets Kurt Crisp and Peter Ahern, co-founders and directors of buck&simple. The pair discusses how details can make a project, taking risky, but great leaps, and the thrill of being free of plans.
"When I was a year into the course I had a ‘duh’ moment, realising that of course I was destined for interior architecture… I was the daughter of a builder!" This week we meet Nicole Pollak, co-owner and managing director of Siren Design. Pollak discusses what it takes to be a director, her love for MONA and how she finally realised her passion...when it was under her nose all along.
A great merger is like a great marriage, with two parties finding they are better together than they were on their own. But how do you find the one who will be the right fit? Paul Gillett and Dimitty Andersen of Grieve Gillett Andersen say their experience was very like a courtship. And so far it's been a very happy marriage indeed.
"Mother Nature is the greatest architect." ADR talks to Steele Olney, founding director of Studio Dot, a practice that he named after his daughter. Olney discusses how travel made him a rounded architect, designing his family home, and his teenage dream of designing cars.
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