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Palassis Architects

I expected to experience many things on visiting the multi-award-winning Cadogan Song School by Palassis Architects, but I did not expect a feeling of what could be called solace. It had nothing to do with being soothed by a beautiful and inspired addition to a heritage precinct of the city I live in – though that is what the Song School is. Rather, as someone who thinks wistfully of the loss of so much early architecture from Perth’s city centre during the twentieth century, I was moved by the sense that the addition of the Song School has granted the precinct an extended lease on life, one

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