The edition featuring all the winning and highly commended projects from the Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2025 is now available.

As is tradition, inside 122 features this year’s overall winning project on its front cover, Central by J.AR Office (photographed by David Chatfield). Within the magazine you can read all about the project and the other accolades J.AR Office picked up at the highly anticipated gala event at Sydney’s Seymour Centre a couple of weeks ago.

Headed up by Jared Webb, the studio also took home the Hospitality award for Central, while also walking away having been crowned Emerging Designer for 2025.

Other IDEA winners

Other big winners featured in the magazine are Studio Gram (winner of Workplace Under 1000sqm, Institutional and Designer of the Year). While Miriam Fanning is given the spotlight as this year’s thoroughly deserving Gold Medal winner.

Also in the magazine

But the IDEA winners and highly commended projects aren’t all you can discover in this issue.

Featured projects run the gamut of typologies and include a data centre in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, a heritage educational facility at the University of Sydney, a temporary event space in Queensland, life-saving pavilion by the beach in Brighton, a bustling eighth floor workspace and, on a more modest scale, a renovation of a classic Victorian workers’ cottage.

From the work to the people behind it, the issue’s profiles introduce us to Woods Bagot’s Rosina di Maria, the team at Tasmania’s So. Architecture, Cristina Napoleone of the innovative initiative, Terrain, and a woman who is surely doing the noblest of jobs – ensuring our architectural past is not forgotten – Brisbane’s ‘house detective’, Marianne Taylor.

We visit the beautiful home of Buck and Simple’s Kurt Crisp and spend five minutes with Michelle Dunas and Stephen Clement of Complete Thought Studio, who tell us how they met and established the studio, while also sharing a few tips and secrets they’ve picked up along the way.

In Discourse, we learn all about Artisan, the not for profit home for makers and craftspeople that has been doing great things in Queensland for over half a century.

And a little further north, we explore a project in Tennant Creek, NT, which espouses Aboriginal-led design as the most sensible and successful way to address housing inequality in Indigenous communities.

And aside from that seeming no-brainer, there’s all the usual books, products and designer selects spotlights.

inside 122 is available now.