ShapeShift Design Technologies is a Design, Engineering and Project Management practice specialising in collaborating with Architects, Artists and Builders to deliver the most challenging structures within agreed quality, budget and timeline parameters.
House in Double Bay, designed by Tribe Studio, is a simple, rectangular prism, clad in timber and painted black. It reveals a hint of its interior softness through double-height window openings, lined in twinkling white tiles.
Bijl means ‘axe’ in Dutch, a tool used to cut, shape and create, metaphorically fitting the practice of architecture perfectly. Founder Melonie Bayl-Smith speaks to Penny Craswell for MEZZANINE, elaborating on Bijl Architecture's distinctive, award-winning approach.
David Neustein and Grace Mortlock of Other Architects and Otherothers share their exclusive notes on the inaugural Biennial and talk us through their project, Offset House, showcased at the Chicago Cultural Center.