The Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has confirmed the French capital’s plan to convert the city’s main Champs-Élysées boulevard into an “extraordinary garden”. In the announcement yesterday the mayor said that the city would spend £225m converting the traffic-clogged 1.9 km avenue into a green public space reminiscent of its promenade history. The project will […]
London-based designer Adam Nathaniel Furman and Melbourne’s Sibling Architecture have designed Boudoir Babylon, transforming the NGV’s café into “super-camp” aesthetic abundance. The task was to “queer” the NGV’s 400 square-metre café and surrounding spaces for the gallery’s 2020-21 Triennial program. NGV curator Ewan McEoin played matchmaker for the commission, coupling Adam Nathaniel Furman and Sibling […]
The studiofour director takes us inside her Melbourne home, which is designed not only as a haven for her young family, but also as an exploration of how to live with deliberation and humility. Ruxton Rise also happens to be shortlisted for the IDEA 2020 Residential Single award. Join us in Melbourne on 19 February […]
The Jac Design Competition saw Zenith invite design firms from Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Shenzhen to use all of their innovation and creativity in reinterpreting Schamburg + Alvisse‘s JAC chair, as a way of reflecting on the many impacts of 2020 and all that the year entailed. The winners for the individual regions have […]
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