Tim Ross

But if you like the idea, hello at bigdesignadventure.com and you never know, you could be sitting at home with a Walkman and hitting the end of the tape and having to turn it over to side two for the rest of the podcast.

I must say that behind the scenes there was some disbelief.

There was a little bit of lukewarm enthusiasm from people that are not you and I. You mean our colleagues?

Yeah.

And I don't want to say we'll show them, but we will show them.

Yeah, and you know what we'll do is a funny on the cassette recording.

We'll get mads to slow down sections of it and people listening will think their battery's going flat.

And each Walkman gets a pencil.

To label it.

No, in case the tape comes out and you have to wind it back on.

Let's talk about today's episode, which is a fascinating one.

We headed to Canberra to meet Shannon Batterson, who is an architect.

She's a former president of the Institute of Architects in Australia, and she's done something quite extraordinary.

She's decided to purchase...

a house that was designed by an architect who was her mentor and friend and it's a house that's not in particularly great condition and not only that she designed herself the perfect family home with the pool and rooms for her children big garage for a husband who collects cars and now

They're moving from the house of their dreams to a different house of their dreams, a very, very small 1970s house in a completely different suburb.

Madness.

As you'll hear, they were concerned that the house was either going to be demolished or turn up in the wrong hands.

And he sort of said, well, we've got no choice.

We've got to do it.