THE BUSINESS
Butter paper is run by Peter Johns, an architect and web designer at Antarctica Group Pty Ltd . Needless to say, the opinions on this website do not represent the opinions of either business.

THE WEBSITE
Butterpaper.com is a website in perpetual development. It started in April 2000 (as Zebra ) and was an exercise in organising an unwieldy array of bookmarks. There were a lot of interesting sites out there but I would go to one and never manage to find it again.

Butter Paper has grown to over 4000 links in many categories D (down to 900 in the new site which is growing again from scratch). It attempts to provide a depository of architectural sites in the australasian region.

Unlike many architecturally-inclined websites in this region, this one is actually run by as an integral part of an architectural practice – Antarctica . This enables me to continually interrogate the site from the random viewpoints of a working architect.

The site has an ever-changing format as it is always being tweaked in some way. It serves as a bit of a lab for my webby experiments. As of January 2008 the site is in the process of being completely rebuilt so some pages might not be 100% until it is done. Consider it BETA at the moment.

Butter Paper welcomes any feedback, propositions, labour, articles, news, photos of interesting completed work, coffee. Anything really. You can support the site the easy way by click on the amazon links before purchasing any book on amazon.

THE FORUM
The public forum occasionally contains tersely worded references to various architects and firms. While we try to keep an eye on things and edit where we believe it is required, some items may slip through the net. If you feel something is going a little too far, please email the site with the name of the post and the offending phrase. We’ll then have a look at it. The request will carry a lot more weight if it is from the person or entity mentioned.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Butterpaper is eternally grateful to the labours of the open source community responsible for much of the back end of the new site. These include the Textpattern content management system , Lussumo’s Vanilla forum , Simplepie RSS integration , MySQL databases , and the PHP server-side scripting language . Not to mention the many add-ons and plugins that have helped to customise the site. Thanks also to the crew at Ilisys web hosting in Perth for their patience and knowledge.

Thanks for your visit.

Peter Johns
Architect, Melbourne
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Ph: +613 9663 9703
Mob: +61 (0)403 920 706

by Peter 07.07.08