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Marcus Piper explores the way technology is redefining the concept of a well-connected home for MEZZANINE – taking us beyond the cobwebs and cables.
A new $9.8 million office fitout designed by BVN has opened in Sydney with a driving concept of wellness and innovation. “The design approach makes conscious use of passive design as part of a strategy to encourage movement – both for fitness and to promote unplanned conversations and collaboration. Fundamental to the design is the […]
Featuring a monolithic washbasin counter, greenery, and irrigation sourced from grey water, the White Grotto washroom, designed by Ida & Billy, aims to become a benchmark in the commercial and retail sectors for sustainable design.
ADR is happy to announce that inside #94 is now available. With the Overall Winner of IDEA 2016, Indigo Slam by Smart Design Studio, on the cover, the magazine is full of beautiful interiors and industry information. inside #94 also includes a bonus magazine featuring all IDEA 2016 winners, as well as a broadsheet paper.
Image above, Westpac Barangaroo by Geyer – winner of the Sustainability award at IDEA 2016. Photo by Richard Glover. Sustainability is a term that gets loosely thrown about; it forms a standard part of the built environment lexicon, but in many cases it is just a feature, not a driving factor. Orientation, solar consideration, thermal […]
Quiet, hushed whispers, padded footsteps and ‘please be quiet’ signage – these are the usual suspects of a library space. But the brief received by ARM Architecture for the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre was something slightly different. “The librarians’ brief was for a contemporary people environment. That means moving away from the traditional model of a library […]
The team at Matt Gibson A+D has been announced as the winner for the Miele Immer Besser design competition, with their proposal for an ultra-flexible apartment space.
The offices of designers and architects are home to the ideas that help us work in new ways. Mezzanine discovers the secret to creativity when it comes to their own studios.
The Miró Hotel was the first boutique hotel in Bilbao and offers only 50 rooms for guests. Albeit small, the attitude of the hotel is grand, with every convenience for guests at hand and an interior that is stylish and contemporary.
As the lines between private and public domains increasingly blur, architecture is expanding notions of community with houses designed to be multifunctional and/or multigenerational, or play a wider role. Peter Salhani explores this blurring for MEZZANINE.
inside Interior Design Review has revealed the winners of its prestigious 2016 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) at an event in Sydney on Friday 18 November. Now in its 14th year, IDEA showcases the best of Australian interior and product design, as well as the designers behind the work.
With the IDEA Gala Party just days away, ADR speaks to inside co-editor Jan Henderson about the judging process and how the night is a perfect opportunity to celebrate the year with friends, colleagues and peers.
A new cafe by Biasol, situated in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, uses an experimental approach to create a sleek space with bold colours.
In making this project, we were as much thinking about its suburban landscape as the building itself. We aimed to create the early beginnings of a meadow and a field that stitch into the suburban terrain and to make a building that belongs.
A muted palette of golden hues and dusky pinks; rough-hewn, exposed concrete columns paired with polished concrete floors. Blackwood Pantry by Luchetti Krelle draws inspiration from the beachy surrounds of Cronulla and the dramatic contrast of a sunset over the bay, and it is shortlisted in the Hospitality Category for IDEA 2016.
Through a collaborative design process, Gray Puksand has designed a new showroom, office space and warehouse for Shaw Contract Australia.
The Doctor's Studio is shortlisted in the Workplace Under 1000sqm Category for 2016 IDEA Awards. Rather than going down the traditional ‘clinical’ route for this small medical facility, Russell & George has created a space that is colourfully reviving while still being relaxed.
"Our client's determined vision drove the concept of the eyrie in a walled garden." Kennedy Nolan has revitalised a warehouse in Carlton, using its patchwork of industrial heritage to create a new home.
Two recent productions by the Melbourne Theatre Company, Skylight and Double Indemnity, had set designs that were enhanced by the words of the writers and the performances of the actors, as inside co-editor Jan Henderson discovers.
Credited with breathing fresh life into the Missoni brand, Wanda Jelmini, niece to Missoni founders Rosita and Ottavio Missoni, talks to inside co-editor Gillian Serisier about brand longevity, perpetual reinvention and that certain something that makes Missoni a perennial design favourite.
TANDEM Design Studio have taken 15m of woven rope to create an undulating shopfront for the Yellow Earth flagship store in Melbourne. A project that has been shortlisted in the retail category for IDEA 2016.
Kerstin Thompson Architects Cellar Door extension at the TarraWarra Estate is a shortlisted project in the 2016 IDEA Hospitality category.
Inside co-editor, Jan Henderson visits one of David Hicks' recently completed projects, the St Kilda Road Penthouse, and finds glamour in the clouds.
If mobile technology means we can work from anywhere, why bother going into an office? The modern workplace has evolved to provide the comfort of home and promote collegiate interaction as never before, as Susan Muldowney writes for inside.
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