Pip Cheshire

Opinion: Keeping the Queen clean

Practice | “The desire to return to ‘normal’ is a potent motivation but there is an awful feeling that perhaps this time we may have ‘cooked our goose’…” Pip Cheshire muses on the future of Queen St.

Opinion: Time for a planner-free zone

Practice | Pip Cheshire dreams of a ‘planner-free zone’, where tradition is set aside in favour of research, analysis and innovation.

Brick Bay Folly 2020: Finalists announced

News | Competition chair Pip Cheshire describes the judging process that took place at the end of June to select five outstanding finalists from a field of 24 submissions.

Opinion: Remaking our country

Practice | Pip Cheshire: “We have a choice as a profession…shall we seize the day and use this time of upheaval to speak out and be agents of change?”

Opinion: Uncertain times

Practice | Pip Cheshire: “It’s been a rude shock that our stock in trade, the bricks and mortar realisation of our lofty dreams, is of no value when the unseen hand of disease strikes.”

Opinion: In consideration of users

Practice | Pip Cheshire notes, “…we architects have a duty, at the very least, to treat our building users with humanity, respect and civility.”

Opinion: The naked emperor

Practice | Pip Cheshire asks about the decision-making process in creating buildings and craves more than the answers given in public discourse.

Opinion: The architect’s folly

Practice | Pip Cheshire asserts that architecture has nothing to do with buildings but is all about the space between them.

Opinion: Beatific urban farmers

Practice | Pip Cheshire on reuse, reoccupying, reconfiguring and the power of architects to facilitate such things.

Opinion: When architects speak

Practice | Pip Cheshire muses over the difficulty in speaking about architectural work and implores us to stop writing “the brief called for…”

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