Month: July 2021

The Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School (PEGS) Music Centre, located in Melbourne, Australia, is the latest in a series of interventions undertaken by McBride Charles Ryan (MCR) across the PEGS Campuses. The existing single-level Victorian ‘house’ in this project was used by the School for music tuition. This new building sits alongside one of MCR’s earliest projects for PEGS, completed in 2009, the Junior Boys’ Year 5&6 Building, which plays with the tension between the School and its suburban context, perception, and childhood imagination. This new project was to refurbish the existing historic Music House, add to and provide improved spaces for music tuition and performance.

There’s no doubt that remodeling can be expensive and that it’s important to plan your budget accordingly. But I’ve always felt that if there’s one room that begs for a budget splurge, it’s the primary bathroom. Bathroom and kitchen remodels, when exe…

Nothing beats the long, warm evenings of summer when you want to have friends over for a meal outside. If you’re getting ready for the outdoor entertaining season, a little effort — like hanging some cafe-style globe lights or investing in a movable f…

The idea of the house goes beyond its physical form and is built from the inside out on the principle of spatial connection with the environment from which it grows and which it overlooks. The concept is based on the relationship between the house and the city, the house and the garden, and the garden and the city. The relationship scheme is repeated inside the house. The interior communal part flowing through the entire house continues to the exterior and all the separate private parts have their own extroverted relationships.