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Coastal House Design / Architecture 101: Colour basics

Sunshine Coast architecture is there a definitive Sunshine Coast style of housing or unique local vernacular design? I guess not the closest thing to that would probably be to a certain extent -the ubiquitous single skin, skillion roof fibro beach shack, although not entirely native to the area it certainly is prevalent here and nowadays…

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A House designer on holiday:

This blog post is a poor attempt to justifying my recent holiday to Bali as a business trip. It’s true that most of my photos when I go on holiday are generally business or at least building design related -clever details, materials and weird angles of buildings and foreign objects rather than picturesque scenery or images…

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The Myth of ‘Modern’ Coastal Architecture & Building Design

I frequently overhear people incorrectly labelling new ‘futuristic’ or seemingly minimalist houses as ‘Modern’ although some might argue it is purely semantics the term ‘Modern’ when used in the context of architecture actually refers to a specific era in time known as ‘Modernism’ which occurred between the 1930’s and 1960’s so rather than employing ‘Modern’…

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