Newcastle nuances business, design and nonsense with Anthrosite Architects and Curious Practice

摘要

On a steep side street off Hunter Street Mall a large, round timber handle on a blackened steel door forms a punctuation mark in the bricolage streetscape. Nestled against an often-closed shopfront that spruiks 'records, antiques and recycled oddities', this doorway marks the entry to the shared office space of local architects Anthrosite Architects and Curious Practice. The collective has shared space in the city since 2012 and credits the sporadically-inhabited urban fabric of Newcastle as being integral to the formation of their practices. As two emerging design studios taking on the trials of early architectural practice, they each made a deliberate decision to establish themselves in Newcastle - a choice driven by their recognition of the potential to practice and produce architecture in a way that is unique to the context and culture of the city.