Interiors
Interiors
A 40-storey student tower beside Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market addresses the importance of community For students stepping off a plane into an unfamiliar city, the first weeks of comfort and security depend on finding the right people to share them with, and the design of a residence can make that task easier or harder. To […]
Creative director at Lawless & Meyerson, Jo Lawless cut her design teeth working for Australian A+D legends Iain Halliday and David Katon, who also taught her about art and beauty. After nearly three decades spent crafting superior interiors, and with a passion for always seeing what’s next, she’s decided the time is right to give […]
Tom Mark Henry is a Sydney-based interior design practice founded in 2014 by directors, Cushla McFadden and Jade Nottage. It’s also the latest studio to join Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30 program as a practice partner. Not only that, McFadden has also signed on to be a shortlist judge for the 30UNDER30 applicants this year. Here ADR […]
On Victoria’s world-famous Great Ocean Road, a new pitstop has taken shape. Led by Grimshaw, the multidisciplinary design for the Twelve Apostles Keerray Woorroong Visitor Centre has been co-designed with Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation, and with landscape architecture practice ASPECT Studios. The project unites a new Visitor Experience Centre, Welcome Garden, extensive revegetation, landscaped parking, […]
Susan Caudry is the estate director at Domaine Chandon and believes that great wine and great design have a lot in common. Pivoting to the wine industry over two decades ago following an early career in fashion at Vogue Australia, Caudry led the Chandon Australia winery for six years before heading overseas. A four-year period […]
Axolotl’s Grid Glass reinterprets the centuries-old language of stained glass through architectural glass, digital manufacturing and material experimentation – with the Ghan providing a particularly demanding setting in which to push the process further. There is something inherently familiar about Grid Glass. Its geometry recalls the leaded lines and coloured fragments of traditional stained glass, […]
memobottle is the cult water bottle brand from Melbourne that’s taken the world by storm, selling millions of flat bottles in its 12 years in business. Now it’s reinventing the traditional round bottle it originally broke away from. From showing up at the Big Design Market over 10 years ago to being stocked in 2000 […]
It’s not often you come across a chair that would be equally at home in a corporate, domestic, hospitality or commercial environment, but that’s exactly the kind of all-purpose versatility the All’essenza chair by Ton achieves. First unveiled at this year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan, the All’essenza chair is the brainchild of Italian designer […]
Bradhly Le is no stranger to ADR‘s 30UNDER30 program, having been a practice partner last year. This time he’s taking on the (not so) enviable task of narrowing down the swathe of entries into a shortlist, from which the mentors and judges will select the final 30. Founder and creative director of RIZEN Atelier, a […]
We love our bread, we love our butter, but most of all, we love a beautifully designed space in which to enjoy said delights… I think that’s how the saying goes… Madeline quotes aside, Itera Bakery is Melbourne’s newest temple of carby goodness with architecture to match. Itera Bakery celebrates the craft of baking in […]
Melbourne’s favourite bathhouse has opened the doors to its first Sydney location in Surry Hills. Building on the success of the Collingwood bathhouse, Sense Of Self (SOS), Surry Hills offers Sydney bathers a 1200-square metre sanctuary for reconnection, relaxation and serenity in the city. After a two-year search to find the right site, the new […]
Melbourne-based Allume Energy’s SolShare has been named Australian Good Design Award of the Year, leading a diverse field of projects recognised for their contributions to sustainability, healthcare, engineering, the built environment and social impact. An Australian-designed technology that enables apartment residents to access the benefits of rooftop solar has taken the top honour at the […]
The contemporary workplace is no longer defined by a single posture, a fixed desk or even a consistent way of working. A working day may move between focused screen time, collaborative discussions, informal meetings and moments away from the desk, with the body continually adapting to different tasks and environments. Despite this shift towards greater […]
The 2026/2027 30UNDER30 will be a special iteration of the program, with the year’s cohort not the only ones at the Creative Retreat in Bali next May. For the five-year Reunion, all previous cohorts, mentors and sponsors are also on the invitation list. Which also makes it a special event for the dedicated 2026/2027 judges […]
On a night for which the phrase ‘raining cats and dogs’ could have been coined, an impressive number of Australia’s designers and architects braved the downpour and headed to Cult’s huge multi-roomed space in the inner Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford for the 2026 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) Designer of the Year presentations. Following on […]
Titled ‘Too Connected to Concentrate: 2026 Workplace Futures Survey’, the report is based on a survey of 2500 knowledge workers across Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK and the US. The report’s central argument is that workplaces are changing at two speeds: the physical workplace is gradually recovering from the pandemic shift, while AI is […]
For ADR’s first Pineapple Soup event in Adelaide, Design by WBL and Designer Rugs collaborated to present a beautifully curated experience that was totally tactile, vividly visual… and even edible. Design by WBL (Williams Burton Leopardi’s new name following its rebrand last year) has been in its studio in Adelaide’s heritage-listed Darling Building for a […]
Cortisol has somehow found its way into the interior design presentation. We now hear about spaces ‘regulating the nervous system’, wall colours influencing dopamine, curves reducing stress and finishes described in language that sometimes sounds closer to a prescription than a specification. In this article for The Podium, Australian Design Review‘s new thought leadership series, Cocoplum […]
Arts Centre Melbourne’s flagship space, the Ian Potter State Theatre, has reopened after two and a half years of renovations and upgrades – six months ahead of schedule. Local architecture practice NH Architecture led the project, collaborating with the Melbourne studio of renowned Norwegian studio, Snøhetta. Walking into the 2079-seat auditorium, everything actually feels very familiar… […]
MDS architects + designers recently transformed the original Malt Store at Melbourne’s Carlton United Brewery into a flagship store, workshop and headquarters for Birkenstock. Located on Swanston Street in Melbourne’s CBD, the project retains the original heritage-listed 100-year-old structure and preserves the character of the space. The team positioned the concept of repair front and […]
Australian Design Review’s regular round-up of appointments, promotions and other practice news in Australian architecture and design for September 2026. Appointments Architectus Strengthening its national design capability, Architectus has made a series of senior appointments across Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. The appointments bring together established design leaders and emerging talent across Living, Infrastructure and Landscape […]
The Spring-Summer 2026 collection from Roche Bobois rethinks outdoor spaces as fully realised living environments, pairing bold colour and generous forms with technical innovation, craftsmanship and enduring materials. For Roche Bobois, outdoor living is not an afterthought. Rather than treating terraces, gardens and balconies as secondary spaces – or simply extensions of the rooms inside […]
Herman Miller has extended its Byne Collection with a customisable meeting table designed to meet the needs of different team configurations, working styles and technology integrations. The modern workspace as a social space The last few years have seen a shift in physical workplace design becoming less about individual workstations and more about collaborative environments. […]
The founder and director of T. Black and T. Black Atelier has only been in Australia for five years, but he’s already made an undeniable impact on the interior architecture and product design industries. And now he’s looking to give something back to the design community by joining ADR‘s 30UNDER30 program as a practice partner. […]
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