Yesterday two boxes arrived  in the office, on unwrapping them we  found large golden boxes,  like big  golden ingots, that upon opening   bore two  Awards, that needed to  be constructed.... without instructions!  It was like lego meets Rubiks cubes, needless to say we were in heaven!  One for  Residential mid Rise  Jury prize and one for  Residential midrise popular choice!...

Walter Richmond Butler  authour of  Modern Architectural Design and the Architecture of  Healthy Home, published in 1902 was one of a generation of English architects who were trained in an era when the Anglo-Catholic architectural philosophies of A. W. N. Pugin and the moral aesthetic ideals of John Ruskin were still severed and the might of the industrial age was scorned. Architecture...

 With a new project underway I had this week the opportunity to meet Honsen, a feng shui Master, a great privelege.
Initially  I  was very sceptical, I thought I knew enough about Feng Shui door and window locations, orientation and site planning, however, real Feng Shui is not as simplistic as  what the books say and the internent is full if generalist rubbish.
Feng shui largely r...

One of John Lautner’s best-known residences is for sale, and we are all a little excited  about this at Brenchley Architects, we figure if we can get 3000 people to chip in a grand  each we might be in the running! 

The Foster Carling residence, built in 1947 (and remodeled by Lautner in 1991) using the same suspended roof scheme as two other Lautner designs (Poling and Jacobsen), a...

  Brenchley Architects worked with Viridian  on the  lastest  Block  project, see the final results and see how  Australia's number one  glass  provider and only manufacturer of float glass,  hardcoat performance glass worked to  create the  beautiful spaces that lept from the drawing board here at Brenchley Architects, creating new  spaces, sunny private nooks, and  adding  new light to the...