Belle

BUILDING optimism

Melissa Bright, the director of Melbourne architecture practice Studio Bright, I experience a sense of deja vu. The office location is on a floodplain next to the Yarra River in Kew where I had met architect Peter McIntyre 14 years before to visit his groundbreaking Butterfly House (1955) for my book on iconic Australian houses. “Our team has created a much-loved home in a barn conversion that embeds our daily work

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