Cassandra Fahey

She emerged in the public spotlight in 2000 because of the controversial 'Newman House',[1] located in St Kilda, designed for media and football identity Sam Newman.

[6] Back in Melbourne, in her earlier career she received guidance from Tom Kovac and Edmond Corrigan[4] and soon registered her own practice which she named the Cassandra Complex.

[11] Fahey was given a completely open brief[12] for the Sam Newman House—named White Noise after Robert Venturis Term 'Billboard Façade'[13]—in St. Kilda West, Melbourne.

[14] It features Cassandra's 9 m by 8 m façade design comprising patterned glass and contains a Pamela Anderson mural,[15] with a garage door opening at her mouth.

[19] Its façade comprises gold panels with inscribed leaf shapes and encloses a ponds of water running like a native creek.

[23] Fahey's concept surrounds an old tailors studio on the outskirts of the city's Chinatown district with a space replicating the unique theme of an opium den.