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Brent Knoll by March Studio

Like many Australian university students, I found myself wandering through Europe midway through my studies. Happily, I landed an internship at Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Balancing a lifestyle of 12 or so hours of work a day followed by mandatory nightclubbing and four hours of beauty sleep, rinse and repeat, the thought of coming home was far from my mind. And then a sick father and the guilt of not finishing my bachelor at RMIT brought me back to Melbourne. Somehow,

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