Web redesign · Architectural direction · 8 boards
A complete reskin of readstudio.com.au — built around an editorial grammar (serif headlines, generous whitespace, one terracotta accent) that lets the architectural photography do the heavy lifting. Below are eight boards: home, about, services, work, case study, contact, plus the underlying design system and a sitemap.
Magazine-clean prose. First-person plural without being precious.
Refined neutrals carry layout. One punctuation colour.
Display serif italics signal editorial; mono for metadata & archives.
Architectural photography centres every page. Captions track 0.22em.
Architecture is a slow profession. The current site reads as fast and flat — this redesign borrows from print: a serif (Fraunces) for headlines, a clean mono for metadata, and the page rhythm of a magazine spread.
Architecture, BIM and Visualisation are siloed in the current IA. We've collapsed them into one Services page with three alternating blocks and three engagement models — making it clear they're co-equal disciplines.
The palette is built to recede behind architectural photography. Cream & paper carry the layout; terracotta is reserved for one italic per hero. The work supplies the colour.
The Colombo studio is currently buried. We surface it in the nav meta (SYD · COL), in the footer, and as equal-weight cards on About and Contact — recognising it as the BIM & viz engine of the practice.
142 projects is a real archive. The Work board introduces a filterable index with project numbers and metadata — and a grid alt for visitors who prefer browsing by image.
Architecture leads arrive with constraints: a postcode, a budget, a timeline. The contact page is structured to capture that — interest pills, qualifier selects, and a "we read every brief" tone.