A group of eight Hong Kong-based emerging designers are visiting Melbourne during Design Week to showcase their work as part of the Hong Kong Design Centre’s (HKDC), Business of Design Week (BODW) initiative at the NGV. ADR caught up with the Chairman of HKDC, Professor Eric Yim, to find out his aims for the pilot program […]
A new brick collection is drawing on the fine quality and craft traditions of Italy’s famous Murano glass-making techniques and transforming them into a crystal-clear glass brick. Created by Austral Bricks, the Poesia collection’s solid glass construction allows architects and designers to use the bricks to create light-filled interiors, gallery spaces and transparent volumes that […]
Located in Flinders on the Mornington Peninsula, the Eastwell House is one of the oldest homes in the seaside town, which has been sympathetically extended through strikingly sculptural contemporary design. The client’s brief to TechnÄ“ Architecture and Interior Design was to create a relaxed beach house for a growing family and one that could accommodate […]
The existing campus at Parade College, Bundoora is a robust brown brick modernist design, but a new learning hub eschews the established context. The Nash Learning Centre is located at the forefront of the school and with its clean, white built form is a deliberate point of difference from the college’s 1960’s chocolate brick. The […]
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