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Mel Bright of Make Architecture

There is some magic being woven on a heavily treed site in Kew, Melbourne, the home of Make Architecture. A black-clad barn within this bucolic idyll on the banks of the Yarra is the place where a particular stream of carefully considered, highly crafted architecture is conceived and pieced together by founding director Melissa Bright and her skilled team.

And what of that architecture? The word “paradise” comes from the Persian words , which means literally “around,” and or , which can mean “wall,” “brick” or “shape.” Combined, translates as “walled garden”: a traditional vision of

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