A dismantled Victorian cottage in Collingwood gets a second life, reassembled brick by brick accompanied by a bold contemporary extension that refuses to blend in. In a Melbourne suburb where architecture and design are defined by a juxtaposition of historic industrial heritage and cutting-edge, sustainable modernity, a dilapidated Victorian workers’ cottage has been preserved rather […]
Leading Melbourne architecture and interior design practice TechnÄ“ has recently completed the inaugural SFIDI wellbeing and fitness facility, located within the iconic Rialto Towers in the CBD. The brainchild of Virgin Active Australia co-founder Ian Tuckey, and property developers Lorenz and Manola Grollo of Grollo + Co (whose family originally developed the Rialto Towers in […]
How does someone go from making aeroplanes quieter to optimising the sound emanating from the finest speakers in the world? When an interior designer expands their fitout remit to specify high-end sound systems into a brief, they are perhaps unaware of the precision and acoustic skills that go into designing the equipment selected. Dr Veronique […]
Rothelowman’s landmark Build-to-Rent (BTR) project for Arklife proves that when metrics are employed focused on adaptability into the future, architects are provided with measures to assist cities to grow bolder and better. The process of achieving exceptional results in multi-residential architecture has long been influenced by the imperatives of timing; BtR harnesses this as a […]
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