Jason Stancombe, furniture designer and founder of Relm Furniture, was recently commissioned to design the dining furniture for the Supernormal Natsu pop-up restaurant, at the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) garden restaurant. The restaurant was temporary, part of Natsu, a 10-day festival held at the museum in January 2018. Stancombe used timber for the furniture to […]
Located on the edge of the Dee Why town centre, Northern Beaches, the new PCYC Community Centre provides an entertainment hub for the peninsula’s youngest residents. AR chats to Elizabeth Carpenter, principal, fjmt about the project. PCYC is conceived as a cloud-like form settling on a pedestal that emerges from the ground. The counterpoint achieved by […]
Shaw Contract last week held a party in their Melbourne showroom to celebrate the six Australian design practices that took out Category Awards in the 2018 Shaw Contract Design Awards.  Cocktails, Canapés and conversation fuelled a fun evening celebrating the truly inspiring work being done by the Australian architecture and design community. Each firm was presented […]
This issue AR asks a panel of experts from Sydney’s forthcoming AU Smart Skyscrapers Summit (26 and 27 June) their response to the following question: how will an increasing number of tall buildings affect the fabric of society in Australia? Domino Risch, principal, Hassell For some, the thought of living in an urban metropolis that […]
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