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Elizabeth FarrellyColumnist, author, architecture critic and essayist
January 8, 2021 4.00pm
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Sydney’s two Chau Chak Wing buildings could hardly be more different. One, all high-chroma exuberance, has barely a right-angle to its name; the other is a study in grey planes. One famously resembles a paper bag karate-chopped in the middle. The other strikes its architects as a “floating box” but, to many casual observers, suggests a concrete bunker.
This contrast is dramatised in reverse by the buildings’ content. Who would guess that the crumpled paper bag houses something as dully orthodox as a business faculty? Meanwhile, the bunker’s interior quivers with some of the most astonishing and eccentric collections you’ll ever see. You could see this as irony made manifest. You could rega
Does the perfect home exist? In
Houses for Sale, architects Michael Meredith and Hilary Samples of MOS Architects set out to answer the age-old question.
Houses for Sale was written and designed by Michael Meredith and Hilary Samples of MOS Architects in collaboration with Studio Lin. The book begins as the family of four strikes out to find the perfect home.
The hardcover, 128-page children’s book illustrates a family road trip through the annals of architectural history in search of their elusive dream house (stops include Corbusier’s Villa Savoye in France and Frank Gehry’s home in Santa Monica). And when the family finally decides to build their own home with lessons gleaned from their travels, they discover that the journey