What if the secret to a happier home is being able to smell your neighbour’s burnt toast? This episode was brought to you by Metricon. Recorded live at Metricon’s National Love of Design Summit, this bonus episode if Part 2 of the panel that brings together four of Australia’s most exciting designers and makers: Ali Whelan of Breathe Architecture, Michael Leung of Balanced Earth Architects, Neil Hipwell of Futureflip, and interior designer James Treble, fresh off the plane from Milan Design Week.
Expect a basement golf simulator that’s brought a whole street together, a skate bowl built for rainy days, and a very strong case for waving at your neighbours through the window.
Listen: Part 1
Listen: Part 2
In this episode of The Edit, host and Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock sits down with Ali Whelan, Michael Leung, Neil Hipwell and James Treble. Together, they get honest about what it really feels like to push boundaries, with clients, with councils, even with the banks, and why a beautiful home is about so much more than how it looks.
“I think the bureaucratic systems that we exist in are just there to be pushed. If, as a collective, we’re not pushing it, then how are we going to implement the change that we all so badly want?”
Michael Leung, Architect and Director, Balanced Earth Architects
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“It’s really rewarding when you see the impact you can have on peoples’ lives.”
Ali Whelan, Principal & Design Lead, Breathe Architecture
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