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As reported recently, Stephen Collier Architects and the artist Kim Connerton have made the first cut of the City of Sydney Laneways Project 2012. As the project is a collaboration, it is both natural and desirable that we lend different interpretations to what we are doing. These are based on different ways of thinking and practice. This applies [...]

A selection of recent site images from the Lavender Bay Boatshed project.

The Scale of the Universe is a new take on that 20th Century classic Powers of 10 that was made by Charles & Ray Eames in 1968.

Tiling the atrium bathrooms with Frankie the Portuguese tiler who we’ve brought out of retirement. The tiles come all the way from the wonderful Vicenza workshop of Morseletto.

Further site photos of the Lavender Bay Boatshed. Yellow concrete floor has been laid, hard set plaster walls have been prepared for stucco lustro and tiling begins tomorrow.    

    Just received Issue 9 of CONDITIONS, Independent  Scandinavian Magazine on Architecture and Urbanism which focusses on the theme of New Knowledge  - New Practices.  There are some good articles in this issue. The interview with Kristian Kreiner of the Copenhagen Business School is particularly interesting.  Titled The Special Generalist, it reflects on some of the business [...]

The Lavender Bay Boatshed progresses further. Stucco walls in the ground floor master bedroom (1m above sea level) with reveal for glazed floor light (above) ready for glass installation this week. Wall reveals in the bathrooms (both of which draw in natural light from two storeys above) are waterproofed in preparation for tiling. The tiles, originally [...]

  A few images from Stephen Collier Architects’ entry for the Future Proofing Schools Design Ideas Competition, proposing a new prefabricated classroom for Australian schools.  David, Jordan, Justin, Christen & Stephen worked on this one. Our idea was that the classroom of the future should have all the characteristics of a room in a garden, [...]

Designed by Massimo Vignelli in 1972 and ultimately discarded (for being too diagrammatic) before being recently reinstated in revised form, an excellent and striking map of the New York subway which 80 year old Vignelli now says was “BC (before computers) for the AC (after computers) era”. http://nyti.ms/oott8d