Former Foster + Partners illustrator Emily Soley paints Melbourne’s pubs and shopfronts as portraits of memory and neighbourhood attachment. Emily Soley spent years documenting buildings for their function, first as a spatial design student at Central Saint Martins in London and then as an architectural illustrator at the international practice Foster + Partners. Her debut […]
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 […]
After 25 years at GroupGSA, Lisa-Maree Carrigan reflects on leadership, legacy and leaving the practice stronger than she found it. Long before architecture began talking seriously about female leadership, Carrigan had already decided where she belonged. The daughter of a developer and an interior designer, Carrigan knew by the age of nine that she wanted […]
Evolve competition winners Anne-Marie Randall and Maggie Craig found colour, craft and calm at 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen. Winning a national design competition is one thing, but being flown to Europe’s most influential design week to see how the best in the business live and work is quite another. Anne-Marie Randall, an architect at fjcstudio, and […]
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