Mechanical timber shutters frame views of Lake Monger, while also creating “sensations of secluded privacy” in this Western Australian home from State of Kin. Located in the Perth suburb of Wembley, the 628-square-metre Shutter House was built on a “drastically sloping site” that called for the strategic use of floor levels and the creation of […]
A “monolithic” concrete bar forms the heart of this 24-square-metre cafe from Pierce Widera, completed during Victoria’s second COVID-19 lockdown last year. The tiny Dux Coffee “hole in the wall” in the inner city suburb of Hawthorn is taller than it is wide, with a raked ceiling that measures 6.5 metres at its highest point, […]
Georgie Shepherd Interior Design brought a sense of “warmth in winter and cool in summer” to this 1900s Adelaide villa through textured Arbon pavers and whitewashed American oak. Stanley House was a “typical 1900s sandstone villa”, Shepherd tells ADR, with an early ’80s brick extension and a mix of “pokey rooms” with some late ’80s […]
Naumi Hotels’ The Central by Undercurrent Studio features Deborah Moss’s bespoke wallpaper in every room, paying homage to the surrounding natural environment. In the heart of Queenstown, the boutique hotel aims to bring the outside world into the hotel experience. A “surrealistic sanctuary”, the hotel has a “creative cool vibe” that meets a “sense of […]
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