2020 was anything but an easy year for the latest hotel offering from Carr to open, but Lancemore Crossley St embraces everything we missed about Melbourne during the COVID-19 lockdown. Opened in December, Lancemore Crossley St channels a theatrical design narrative that is a “seamless extension of the city’s creative spirit”. One of the last […]
Architects EAT has brought Japanese “sophistication and simplicity” to a restaurant-to-retail brand in the heart of Melbourne. When approached with the brief to design Calia Emporium, the local studio had Omotesando in mind. A luxury shopping destination and one of the most expensive neighbourhoods in Tokyo, Omotesando is, as Architects EAT director Albert Mo describes, […]
Noise Noise Noise pays homage to Sydney’s second oldest Heritage site – 350 George Street – with a “conceptual retail space” dipped in gold. Drawing inspiration from the building’s marble-lined semi circular foyer, bronze grand staircase and trachyte stone facade, Subtype Sydney is, explains Noise Noise Noise director Blair Cooper, an “expressionist example” of a […]
Hand-troweled plaster walls customised by NGID blend with plush furniture and marble features to give Perth’s Youth Lab a 1970s glam feel inspired by “luxury hotels” and the “private penthouses of New York’s Upper East Side”. Eschewing the typical white and sterile environment commonly found in medical centres, NGID opted for the custom walls as […]
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