APPROACHING MARCH.STUDIO’S North Melbourne office building sets up a quandary. Is the boxy off-form concrete structure with Prouvé-style portholes puncturing the facade a new building or not? One of their specialities as a practice is experimentation with materials – diving deep into their properties and performance – and I wonder whether this is it in action? But it turns out, inspired by Japanese brutalism, the co-founder of March.Studio – Rodney Eggleston’s great-grandfather Alec – designed and built it as an office and warehouse for Wes Lofts and Ron Barassi in 1972. Only the portholes are a recent addition.
Rodney launched March.Studio in the 2008 GFC with partner Anne-Laure Cavigneaux. They met in Rotterdam as housemates when Rodney was
