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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Travel
Katie Cunningham

Away with Anthony Burke: ‘We did yoga twice a day and listened to the monkeys and elephants at night’

Grand Designs Australia host Anthony Burke
‘Once you leave home, you have to be alright with giving yourself over to the travel gods,’ says Grand Designs Australia host Anthony Burke. Photograph: ABC

Whichever destination he’s travelling to, Anthony Burke makes a point of seeking out the best local architecture. As the host of Grand Designs Australia and an architecture professor at University of Technology Sydney, it’s a holiday ritual he says is “pretty obvious”.

“I can’t think of a place where I didn’t visit at least one building of note, to ground my thinking in the culture and design of that place,” he says. “It’s the way I tune into where I am.”

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