Peter Besley uses pale bricks and thick mortar to create monolithic facade of Brisbane's Couldrey House

Mortar oozes between the off-white bricks that clad this house in Brisbane, which architect Peter Besley has designed to look "immensely heavy".
Couldrey House measures 320 square metres and is situated west of central Brisbane, nestled in the foothills of Mount Coot-tha.Besley wanted the house's heavy materiality to contrast vernacular residential architecture in Australia, which he thinks is too-often built with lightweight materials that constantly need to be repaired.
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