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Creatively contemporary Why follow trends for out-dated styles when your home can be as unique as you are? WORDS KATE INNES PHOTOGRAPHY JEN DAINER
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GOLD COAST ARCHITECT Ben Parker has been creating exceptional buildings for homes and businesses for over 20 years. He is a passionate advocate for the value of contemporary design and nothing pleases him more than seeing his clients’ lives transformed by the buildings he creates.
lessons learnt in the past but with an eye firmly fixed on the future; design that seeks to continually improve and evolve the quality of our life and experience now. “It’s exciting, and that’s what I love about my work as an architect,” says Ben. “There’s a wonderful freedom that comes
templated design that could be built on any site anywhere in Australia. “It’s refreshing to see and certainly a far cry from the conservative social norms of previous generations, including mine.” Ben recalls life back in the 80’s, when he envisioned himself living in the same kind of
Ben’s philosophy is: “If you’re looking to buy a car, you want the latest model with the best that contemporary design has to offer. Why would it be any different with a house?” That’s the beauty of contemporary design. Design without rules; design that embraces
with losing the need to conform, and I think that’s what people are looking for when they choose a contemporary architect. “They want something as unique as they are; something that reflects their family, their environment and their lifestyle. Not another
homes that most of us lived in. He’d never even seen a truly modern house, let alone set foot in one. Then came university and the endless doors of possibility that contemporary architecture opened. For Ben, it was a revelation.
