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SJB Sydney Studio

One of the questions I’ve asked myself often is “Why do architects wear black?”. Cordula Rau’s amusing book of the same title (Springer Verlag, 2008) asked architects to reflect on this very question with a variety of candid responses ranging from the existential to the absurd. Sitting in one of the ochre-toned meeting rooms at SJB’s Surry Hills office, I ask director Adam Haddow the same question about architectural offices: “Why are they always white?”. Responding as Konstantin Grcic did

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