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• ‘Our houses are too big’: Grand Designs’ Anthony Burke on the best and worst of Australian architecture

  05-10-2024 21:00
  
  The architecture professor on homes with more bathrooms than occupants – and how the Sydney metro might renew confidence in the benefits of good designGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAnthony Burke knows good design. And he knows why it matters. The UTS architecture professor is the host of the ABC’s Grand Designs Australia and has spent a career examining and celebrating the best that design has to offer. So Guardian Australia asked him about his personal bugbears and favo
  
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• Touching distance: an apartment in a Brussels brutalist block

  05-10-2024 17:00
  
  A remote makeover during Covid pays off handsomely for an interior designer and her partnerCan you imagine buying a flat without ever actually stepping inside it? And then doing up the entire place – bashing down walls, jettisoning fittings and reshuffling the floorplan – remotely? For most of us the answer would be an emphatic, “Of course not!”Kim Verbist would say otherwise. The Belgian interior designer did all of the above when she embarked on the convention-defying t
  
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