The wonderful Peter Hyatt, has produced another edition of Vision, this time documenting the Block Glasshouse and the use of Viridian Glass, picking up the theme of Sir John Paxtons Crystal Palace and the tour de force it bought to Architecture, Vision Edition 17 is a visual feast, and Brenchley Architects are excited to be an ongoing partner with The Block. Check out Edition 17 of Vision online here. #architectphotographer #architectsmelbourne #brenchleyarchit

After a hunt for accessories that were made from raw copper to our specs for a client we have transversed the world, and come up with some stunnung sinks, designed inhouse, and the whole office is excited about seeing these, but we are super excited that the hardware for the cabinets was a little closer to home, infact only a suburb away! We journeyed the world to find what we needed close to home..... The wonderful Louis Berczi, who made the great stools a

In a week that saw the roof come off The Block Glasshouse, and let the light in, we are onto another project, where we are excavating a multistorey reno with robot dinosaurs....... well, Ok, mini remote control excavators. Amazing that in this confined space, the job can be done remotely and quickly....... looking forward to seeing the results! The magic of these machines is the stuff of boyhood imaginings, and brings magic to the buildings we work on, its in

Phaidon Atlas the innovative digital platform for discovery, inspiration and learning for the global architecture community. The respected Phaidon Atlas books to give you a more immediate, enriching experience and to easily share detailed drawings, images, concepts and ideas with colleagues, clients and suppliers, and the big news at Brenchley Architects this week is we have been selected for the 142 Park Street Property. See Our entry here: Phaidon Atlas #phaidonatlas

So we have been working on a project here at Brenchley Arhitects. Julian likes to fit a lot into a day, and while qualifying for the MBA Cert IV in Construction in Building and Construction earlier in the year, shoring up his personal experience with a qualification, that will allow Brenchley Architects have their own Constrction Company, known and RED DUCK CONSTRUCTIONS. We are in the final stages with paper work, but super excited to see the little Duck g

If she's going to abuse The Block architect, Dee could at least check the car cam isn't recording. After losing the Blockhead jury to Michael and Carlene, Dee decided to vent to husband Darren in the car on the way back to The Block. But unbeknownst to Dee, Darren had turned the car cam on and when she found out she wasn't happy about it. Check out the video above to see what Dee said. #architectsmelbourne #brenchleyarchitects #glasshouse #modernarchitecture #residentialmidri

Its nearly Block O Clock time! Sunday evening we think back to when it was but a drawing on a page! Sunday night sees the new contestants learn how to read simple plans, and start the long road to making them match the drawings! #theblock #blockglasshouse #melbournearchiecturalprojects #brenchleyarchitects #ch9 #theblock #glasshouse #plans #architectssydney #architectsmelbourne

With The Blocks new Glass house airing next Sunday, we were looking back over some old images from Dux House and noticed that around the period that Dux House was originally being build 1914, Man Ray was making exception works of beauty in Photography. Here at Brenchley Architects we are all a little bit obsessed with Photography as well as Achitecture, and we couldnt help but notice the simialrities beween these two images, taken nearly 100 years apart! Man Ray in

Yesterday two boxes arrived in the office, on unwrapping them we found large golden boxes, like big golden ingots, that upon opening bore two Awards, that needed to be constructed.... without instructions! It was like lego meets Rubiks cubes, needless to say we were in heaven! One for Residential mid Rise Jury prize and one for Residential midrise popular choice! Later that afternoon we had another dispatch from the good folk at Architzer, letting us know we

Brenchley Architects worked with Viridian on the lastest Block project, see the final results and see how Australia's number one glass provider and only manufacturer of float glass, hardcoat performance glass worked to create the beautiful spaces that lept from the drawing board here at Brenchley Architects, creating new spaces, sunny private nooks, and adding new light to the building. For the beautiful online article head over to Vision Magazine #viridian #ha