Cornerstone Company

Six directions for the new site.

Same verified facts, same photographs, same structure underneath. Six different ideas about what should lead. Open them on your phone as well as here, they are built for both.

Round two, the live ones

Built from what you liked: concept 02's colour, and Precinct's liveness. These pages know what time it is in Tugun and where the sun is. The sky is a real solar calculation, clamped bright so it never goes dark, even at 3am.

The lit lobby sign at The Warehouses at dusk 04

Hours

Right now leads

The direct descendant of Precinct, rebuilt in the Cornerstone teal. A live Tugun clock is the hero, the sky tracks the real sun, and the page tells you plainly whether the doors are open and how long you have.

Open concept 04
Light falling through the atrium at The Warehouses 05

Elevation

The light leads

No clock anywhere. The sun itself is the interface, riding a real arc at its true position over Tugun, and the light direction it implies falls across the type and the photographs. The quietest of the six.

Open concept 05
The street elevation and tenant signboards at The Warehouses 06

Ledger

Time passing leads

Not what time it is, but how long it has all been standing. Live elapsed counts against real dates, set as a register of works. Track record is the actual argument a credibility page is making.

Open concept 06

Round one

The first three. You picked 02, and its palette and credit blocks carry through into everything above.

The courtyard at Cornerstone Stores, Tugun 01

Colophon

Type leads

A printed architectural monograph. A reading serif sets the whole page, the projects run as a newspaper column index, and the awards are set as a book's credits page.

Open concept 01
Exterior detail at The Warehouses, Currumbin Waters 02 You liked this

Field

Colour leads

The forrest teal comes off the page as flat colour, chaptering a bright flaxen site in full width bands. Graphic and decisive, closer to an exhibition identity than a brochure.

Open concept 02
The atrium at The Warehouses, Currumbin Waters 03

Scrub

Motion leads

A slow architectural film. Photographs pin to the screen while their captions move past, and the hero settles as you scroll.

Open concept 03

What changed in the facts

You have a national award that was not being claimed. The Warehouses won the 2024 National Award for Commercial Architecture. It leads the recognition section on all six.

Two claims were dropped because they could not be verified: a commercial architecture commendation, and a social impact recognition. On a page read by architects an overstated claim does more damage than a missing one.

Cornerstone Stores received a High Commendation in the Horbury Hunt Commercial category at the 2018 Think Brick Awards. It did not win.

Still to decide

The blurb. Each concept writes its own two sentences. That line is doing more work than anything else on the page.

The contact form. Concept 01 has none, just an email address, which is the convention in this category. The rest keep a compact form.

The typefaces. Miller Banner and Proxima Nova are the real brand faces and both are commercial. These use free stand-ins. The winner can have the real ones for the price of a licence.