JAN-MAR 2022 / PEOPLE / ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Grose point: Regardless of size, ‘a building is still a house’ WORDS HAMISH MCDONALD
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Noted for his pared-down approach using industrialised structures and fabrics, James Grose grew up in Bundaberg and pursued industrial design at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and worked as a graphic artist before completing his architecture degree at Sydney University in 1984. His Grose Bradley partnership with wife Nicola Bradley soon won acclaim for house projects, but after merging with Bligh Voller Nield in 1998, Grose worked on bigger projects including the Australian Embassy in Bangkok, the CSIRO Synergy Building, the Campus MLC in North Sydney, the Kinghorn Cancer Centre in East Sydney, NAB’s office in Melbourne’s Docklands, and the prize-winning ASB North Wharf in Auckland. Now 67, Grose explains to Hamish Mcdonald that however big, a building is still a house.
