ARTICLE Like many undertakings involving design, architecture is subject to fashion. Beyond certain basic characteristics, architectural styles come and go, and sometimes return. The style of a residential building can Continue reading
ARTICLE Bricks have been used for building since earliest times, alone or in combination with stone, timber, concrete or otrher building materials. They are a very logical answer to a Continue reading
WORK IN PROGRESS In 1885 Theo Handtke, a seller of oil paints from eastern Germany, bought several acres of land in Adelaide, South Australia, where he built his dream Continue reading
COMPLETED PROJECT This inner urban cottage is one of a pair. This was lucky, because the work here entailed reconstruction of the original verandah, of which there were few traces Continue reading
WORK IN PROGRESS This 1930s house in Adelaide’s inner suburbs was carefully designed and just as carefully built. The Great Depression and its lingering effects meant that not many high Continue reading
WORK IN PROGRESS This bungalow in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs was built around 1913. Our job was to give the old girl a facelift. Work started on the timber around Continue reading
WORK IN PROGRESS This small villa in inner Adelaide had for decades been hiding its charms under a layer of pebbly render – ‘roughcast’ or ‘pebbledash’. It was ignored by Continue reading
