Michelle Bailey is a Brisbane-based freelance writer and a graduate of architecture from the University of Queensland. She writes regularly for local and national publications about architecture and design including Houses and Artichoke magazines.
Michelle Bailey's Latest contributions
Grand gesture: Byres Street
Designed by Cavill Architects in association with Hogg and Lamb, this Brisbane office building uses a grand atrium and staircase to encourage interaction and a sense of community.
A building that plays with time: Tjuringa House
Motif, texture and concrete acrobatics unite in this sculptural new home, befitting its majestic escarpment setting on the precipice of Toowoomba’s Great Dividing Range.
Lessons in scale, proportion and materiality: Albert Villa
Responding to its heritage context and inner-Brisbane neighbourhood, this addition to a historic weatherboard cottage captures vistas from new living spaces arranged around a landscaped courtyard.
Choreographing the domestic: New Farm Park House
A choreographed sequence of landscaped gardens enriches the experiential qualities of this addition to a Brisbane home, whose regional sensibility befits its locale.
One to watch: Kin Architects
Leah Gallagher and Marjorie Dixon, of Kin Architects, formed their Brisbane-based practice in 2017 with a desire to design people-centric architecture that respects the history and context of their city.
Mindfulness in the unspoiled wilderness: Sparks Architects
With a fearless yet holistic approach to site, Sparks Architects imbues its climate-responsive work with lyricism and a careful regard for the intangible energy of a place.
Trademark lyricism: Stradbroke House
Well versed in designing for the tropical Queensland climate, the Gabriel and Elizabeth Poole and Tim Bennetton have collaborated to deliver an exuberant South Stradbroke Island holiday home for the owner and her four grandsons.
Everyday extraordinary: Indooroopilly House
Composed as a series of concrete and masonry platforms, this rigorously executed home by Owen Architecture with Lineburg Wang maintains the pleasure of low -density living through a considered exploration of architecture and terrain.
Superbly scaled: Tarragindi steel house
An exercise in shaping tall volumes, sculpting light and layering materials, this Brisbane home by Bligh Graham Architects is an exciting exemplar for small-lot housing in subtropical suburbia.
Fully booked: Footpath Library
An intriguing exploration of geometric tension and a lesson in craftsmanship and materiality, this piece of miniature architecture by Jonathan Goh also effectively encourages small-scale knowledge sharing.