From a field that included the pantheon of late 20th/early 21st century, the ARM Architecture team I'm a part of has won the Gold Coast Cultural Precinct Design Competition. Competitors included Nikken Sekkei (Japan's oldest firm), Crab Studio, Foster + Partners, Ken Yeang, MVRDV, OMA (Rem Koolhas), Daniel Libeskind, UN Studio and Zaha Hadid. After a pretty quiet period, this is a most welcome fillip professionally and an incredible emotional boost. Well done to ARM for putting together such a brilliant team and pulling together all our ideas into a fantastically formed design hook. 

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Welcome to the first post of the  journal, where I'll be sharing news of my practice, ideas for landscape and urban design, soil health, bio-char and bio-diversity, natural area management, bush regeneration and revegetation, experiments on the 5 acre property, boat launchings, new commissions and a place to discuss important issues relating to all of the above, and more. 

Let's kick off with some very good news: I'm on the ARM Architecture Team which has been chosen as one of three shortlisted for the second round on the Gold Coast  Cultural Precinct Design Competition, out of a field of 75 international entries.

The Evandale Site is located on Bundall Road, the central of only three main north/south transport spines that run up through the populated coastal fringe, wedged between the mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It's also one of the last reasonably undeveloped sites bang in the middle of the Gold Coast urban area.

Our team should be meeting up in the next few weeks to discuss the next step and win the commission, so stay tuned.

In the meantime I'll be adding updates here on all the projects and ideas that in development within my practice, on the property and in the shed.