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Outback Queensland and the French countryside don’t typically exist in the same sentence, but for the McMahon family, the two go hand in hand. After 100 years of running their Stanthorpe family farm, the McMahons are sharing the love with a new purpose-built 150-capacity wedding venue on the property that brings the essence of France […]
The distance between a brilliant drawing and a flawless installation is almost always a handover. At Krost’s manufacturing facility in Sydney, design engineering and fabrication share a single footprint. Keeping the entire operation local and in-house brings rare agility to complex custom work, protecting tight tolerances, zero-joint edging details and material continuity from initial prototype […]
This 260-square metre billiards club in Adelaide, designed by YO.Q Design and Kasawoo, reimagines a cue sports club as a swish, mid-century-inspired social lounge. Heyball, or Chinese pool (or eight-ball), has taken off in popularity recently, especially here in Australia. That may be thanks in part to Lilly Meldrum, the 18-year-old world champion from Brisbane […]
Australian Design Review’s regular round-up of appointments, promotions and other practice news in Australian architecture and design for July 2026. Appointments Arcadia Arcadia has elevated nine people in its 2026 promotions. Ryan Lewis has been promoted to senior associate in recognition of his leadership across complex projects, ability to build trusted client relationships and ongoing […]
For many people, hospitals are places visited during life’s most challenging moments. They are where we wait for answers, recover from trauma, welcome new life, grieve, heal and hope. They are deeply human places that sit at the centre of our communities. For health planners like Rowena Sequeira and Vanessa Zakrzewski at HDR, designing hospitals […]
A new world-class cultural centre by Architectus has been unveiled at Santa Maria College in Perth, adding to the city’s reputation for delivering leading performing arts education. Perth has some prestigious theatre chops thanks to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, affectionately known as WAAPA, the alumni of which includes the likes of Hugh […]
COX Architecture has completed an office fitout for legal firm Mallesons at the top of Governor Phillip Tower in Circular Quay. The seven-storey workplace is a deliberate evolution of more conventional law firm environments. COX Architecture considered how distinct spaces – such as client-facing areas and staff settings – can work more cohesively while balancing […]
The latest exhibition to open at Melbourne’s Heide Museum of Modern Art is a dreamy trip into a misty and magnificent Paris of yesteryear. No matter what the folks at the Parliament House end of Collins Street in Melbourne will tell you, there is another little spot not a million miles away from the city’s […]
Flexible workplaces promise choice and adaptability. But when flexibility is not clearly defined, the resulting environment can look responsive while being harder to use in practice. ‘We need a flexible workplace’ may be one of the most familiar requests in contemporary workplace design. It sounds clear, but in practice it can mean almost anything. For […]
Most people, at some point in their work, know the particular satisfaction of a plan landing better than they’d hoped for. This is what that looked like, at 10 metres long, in the middle of Chapter House. When Jon Goulder and Henry Williams were invited to create a work for Chapter House – the cavernous […]
With concept and design by Adèle Winteridge of Foolscap interior design studio, in collaboration with Melbourne glass artist Hamish Donaldson, a new collection of eight unique glass vases is on display at Pieces of Eight Gallery in Melbourne’s CBD. Glass has always captured imaginations, from the first glass beads of Ancient Mesopotamia to the Murano glassblowing artisans […]
Following a year of building upgrades, the Brett Whiteley Studio has reopened to visitors in Sydney. Located in Whiteley’s final home and studio in Surry Hills, the Brett Whiteley Studio offers an intimate and unfiltered encounter with the life and practice of Brett Whiteley (1939-1992), one of Australia’s most influential contemporary artists. Revitalising a piece […]
The latest in architecture
Outback Queensland and the French countryside don’t typically exist in the same sentence, but for the McMahon family, the two go hand in hand. After 100 years of running their Stanthorpe family farm, the McMahons are sharing the love with a new purpose-built 150-capacity wedding venue on the property that brings the essence of France […]
Fifty artists across 20 venues will transform the capital’s gardens, lakes and public spaces into a free contemporary art trail this spring. Returning for its sixth edition from 11-31 October 2026, the Canberra Art Biennial has unveiled a spring program that treats the capital itself as raw material. Presented by contour 556, the free festival […]
A Dadaist collage of fragments, a house that refuses to pick a lane, an extension that accompanies rather than overshadows its counterpoint… this home renovation by Open Studio Architecture in Melbourne’s inner north combines architectural styles across its awkward site, allowing the garden to remain the focus. Radical separation When working with existing buildings, the […]
Stantec’s engineering feat threads a $853 million university campus above Perth’s busiest transport corridor. Rising above the daily churn of buses and trains, the newly opened Edith Cowan University (ECU) City campus has landed in the middle of Perth’s central business district as the first comprehensive university campus the city has ever hosted within its […]
We often see the finished product on display in gallery spaces, so it’s refreshing to see the thinking and grunt work behind the scenes become the focus. This exhibition at RMIT Galleries in Melbourne ventures into how practice research has provided powerful methodologies for developing new visions, ideas and processes that shape the future of […]
Australian Design Review’s regular round-up of appointments, promotions and other practice news in Australian architecture and design for July 2026. Appointments Arcadia Arcadia has elevated nine people in its 2026 promotions. Ryan Lewis has been promoted to senior associate in recognition of his leadership across complex projects, ability to build trusted client relationships and ongoing […]
A new world-class cultural centre by Architectus has been unveiled at Santa Maria College in Perth, adding to the city’s reputation for delivering leading performing arts education. Perth has some prestigious theatre chops thanks to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, affectionately known as WAAPA, the alumni of which includes the likes of Hugh […]
Following a year of building upgrades, the Brett Whiteley Studio has reopened to visitors in Sydney. Located in Whiteley’s final home and studio in Surry Hills, the Brett Whiteley Studio offers an intimate and unfiltered encounter with the life and practice of Brett Whiteley (1939-1992), one of Australia’s most influential contemporary artists. Revitalising a piece […]
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Climate Change Strategy 2026-36 was released this month with a renewed commitment to climate resilience and emissions reduction. The strategy maps out eight target areas, including the built environment. Targets include reaching net zero by 2045, restoring and supporting nature, and adapting the city to face a changing climate. Along with […]
A Carr-designed estate spans two titles, blending solar-passive architecture with resort-style wellness and entertaining amenities. Occupying more than 7500 square metres across two titles, this new residence by Carr Architecture reads less like a family home and more like a private wellness retreat, one where the architecture itself is arranged around the idea of slowing […]
It’s not unusual for schools to engage with their local neighbourhood, hosting fetes or movie nights to raise money, renting out the sports hall for use by a local dance school or basketball club a few nights a week, or maybe welcoming a farmers’ market on weekends. But none of them were specifically designed for […]
A dismantled Victorian cottage in Collingwood gets a second life, reassembled brick by brick accompanied by a bold contemporary extension that refuses to blend in. In a Melbourne suburb where architecture and design are defined by a juxtaposition of historic industrial heritage and cutting-edge, sustainable modernity, a dilapidated Victorian workers’ cottage has been preserved rather […]
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