Index

Topic hubs

Five standing desks. Start here if you want the journal as a working library rather than a scroll.

Brief to drawing

Concept design

How an idea is written, drawn and approved before anyone breaks ground.

Ground to frame

Sequencing, site craft, weather, existing buildings and the cost of preliminaries.

What it is made of

Timber, masonry, concrete, glass and reuse — specified for climate and the NCC, not a lookbook.

Street to precinct

Precinct finance, missing-middle housing, laneways, neighbours and public realm.

Paper that binds

Tenders, contracts, cost plans, defects and the decision to stop designing.