How to beautifully frame its million-dollar views while also providing a secure lock up was the challenge confronting Ferrari when it set up a showroom at Sydney’s Star City Casino recently. The solution came in the form of The Australian Trellis Door Company’s (ATDC) high-end folding doors. The brief ATDC received was to protect the […]
As part of a regular series, AR asks a panel of industry experts their response to the following question: Architecture has long been a male dominated industry. Why do you think this is and is it changing? Kerstin Thompson, principal Kerstin Thompson Architects Rather than answer this question I’d prefer to pose a related, but slightly […]
A brand that inspires customers to ‘Live Colourfully’, the Kate Spade store in Chadstone, Melbourne, brings colour and sparkle from the façade all the way in. Designed by X+O, the store design is inspired by brand elements, and the New York ‘girl’ that personifies the brand. The ‘bow’ (commonly integrated into product) is featured on […]
Construction is now complete on South Melbourne Primary School, Victoria’s first high-rise state school, with over 160 students now settled in for term one. The Hayball-designed project – and recipient of the 2016 World Architecture Festival Awards Future Project of the Year award – offers a contemporary building with modern teaching principles at the core […]
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