Carpenter Hall House by Russell Hall
It was an early morning in March when I rushed across town to the north Brisbane suburb of Wilston, excited to have been commissioned to write a piece about the Carpenter Hall House. A Brisbane icon since construction began in the mid-1980s, the building was added to the Australian Institute of Architects’ list of nationally significant architecture in the early 2000s. And yet few have been allowed into the inner sanctum of this remarkable Queensland home.
On arrival I met the photographer, who looked slightly bewildered, a sentiment I soon
