The Bones of the 'Zen Garden' arrive

The physical, visual and philosophical connections to its escarpment site at the 'Glass House Mountain House' has been further strengthened with the placement of a triad of local Glass House Quarry stones, carefully selected and placed with the client.

"Rocks are placed in the garden for enticement and reinvigoration of the viewer. The placement of rocks are the bone structure of a garden. Traditionally, the Japanese held rocks as very sacred objects. They were the home of spirits or kami in Japanese. Rocks when placed in a group needed to be placed in such a way that the energy was balanced, and they seemed to somehow interact with each other, or relate to each other. Triads are common ways to group rocks together symbolizing the triangle or the three forces equivalent to a triad of Heaven, Earth and Man."

The new 'Bones' are one component of the Northern 'Zen Garden' courtyard which the spaces of the house are gathered around.

Bark adds to the Hastings Streetscape Noosa

A building inspired by the landscape. The new Visitor Information Centre in Hastings Street Noosa was celebrated recently with morning and evening 'opening' do's with Bark's team being gratefully acknowledged and thanked for the architecture and design of the new centre at the evening celebrations.  

Already the subject of positive user and public feedback, the building with it's floating 'leaf' canopy roof is fast contributing to the life of the street and will take Tourism Noosa and hundreds of thousands of visitors to Noosa comfortably and dynamically into the future.

Bark at Pecha Kucha Brisbane

Bark presented to a full 'Powerhouse' at the latest Pecha Kucha event held in Brisbane. The Pecha Kucha format of 20 slides for 20 seconds per slide provided a very brief oppurtunity to present Bark's design environment, design principles and design process.  Check out the latest event at Pecha Kucha for the latest on the world wide phenomenum.

Photography by Camera Obscura