Matt and Brittany Purves are the husband and wife duo behind Spectura Studio, based in Scamander, on Tasmania’s north-east coast. Spectura is a Building and Interior Design studio with a focus on health-conscious, energy efficient and sustainable spaces. The couple live inside a certified Passivhaus that reflects the ethos of their building and interior design […]
This year’s Adelaide Design Week puts collaboration, conversation and community ahead of the cult of the individual designer – positioning design culture itself as the thing worth celebrating. Design festivals can easily become exercises in looking at things: the finished building, the polished object, the installation, the designer standing beside it explaining the thinking. Adelaide […]
A Carr-designed estate spans two titles, blending solar-passive architecture with resort-style wellness and entertaining amenities. Occupying more than 7500 square metres across two titles, this new residence by Carr Architecture reads less like a family home and more like a private wellness retreat, one where the architecture itself is arranged around the idea of slowing […]
Designed by Billard Leece Partnership (BLP), the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Western Sydney has opened the doors of its new Wattle Building. Alongside the new Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick (Stage 1) and the Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre, which opened at the end of 2025 and were also designed by BLP, the new building […]
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