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In conversation Architect Zoe Diacolabrianos / Project: Il Duomo Why did you use brick for this Melbourne home? “Life’s too short for boring spaces” is our motto. We love creating colourful and textured spaces and have a passion for celebrating Australian architecture through our work, drawing contextual nods into our spaces. With so much variance, brick – from apricots to deep hawthorn reds – tells the story of a place and an era. It’s the perfect material to speak to context, and also add warmth and texture. How have you used it? The existing home and its Carlton North neighbourhood are typified by mottled brick textures. To bring in natural light, we created a series of courtyards and cut-outs that reveal the bricks on surrounding houses. So we brought this…

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