Shou Sugi Ban and tactile materials dominate this restaurant designed by Pattern Studio to “lure” Melburnians out of the city and into the airport suburb of Tullamarine. Three Blue Ducks is by the hospitality group of the same name, which opened its first eatery in Sydney’s beachside suburb of Bronte a decade ago. The Tullamarine restaurant […]
Zenith Perth’s new showroom, designed with TRCB Architects and Milieu Creative, performs a delicate balancing act: reintroducing the idiosyncrasies of the 1906 building to complement the cutting edge constellations of Zenith’s workplace furniture. There’s a precedent for Zenith Perth finding its home in the walls of a Heritage build. The previous Western Australian base for […]
Responding to Polly Harbison’s architecture, the creative team of Arent&Pyke –Juliette Arent, Sarah-Jane Pyke and Genevieve Hromas – has designed an interior that is harmonious, enhancing and entirely considered. Ostensibly an addition to a Federation brick and sandstone home, Harbison’s architecture uses details to make congruous the shift from old to new, while apertures and […]
The Australian public, and designers in particular, shouldn’t be afraid of being political, says IDEA 2020 Designer of the Year David Flack. “Within our current world, politics has become a dirty word, but it’s not. It’s actually the place all design starts from,” says Flack. “There is a fear within a lot of Australians, but […]
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