Australian Modernism

The stark simplicity of Manly apartment, is, as we have come to expect of Smart Design Studio, a sleight of hand that belies the layers of detail and thinking that make this practice’s work so very, very exceptional. The way studio director, William Smart, works on a project is more about the existing bricks and what they have to say about a project’s form than most. In this case, the apartment was as basic as one would expect of a 1970s block with no previous renovations. The hero was and remains