A creative approach to material choice can bring the aesthetics, form and sustainability of a house to life in amazing ways, write Polly Bastow and Tony Stuart of Form Architecture Furniture. When designing and constructing your house it pays to think deeply about the actual building fabric. What are you going to make the building […]
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 […]
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