The latest in interiors
Located adjacent Perth’s Jualbup Lake, Red Zephyr Blue (RZB) house was crafted by Carrier and Postmus Architects for an avid music lover and a talented artist. Responding to the brief for an eco-house with no air-conditioning, Justin Carrier and Steve Postmus designed a passive cooling system that uses vents in the roof and troughs filled […]
STUDIO CD‘s Claire Delmar shares the details about her latest project in Collingwood and provides a peek into her journey from style director to interior designer and stylist. The self-described food-obsessed Sydneysider is a jack of all trades, applying her inimitable style to residential and commercial interiors, food, cookbooks, concept stores, merchandising and advertising campaigns. […]
Against the backdrop of one of Melbourne’s oldest buildings, The Stella Collective’s Hazel channels the feminine rock goddess of a bygone era. In the stairwell of one of Melbourne’s oldest buildings, a provocative image of a dark-haired beauty hangs as muse for The Stella Collective’s latest restaurant fitout. “She is very much telling the story […]
Architects have designed these five houses for themselves, applying their exacting design standards to their own home sweet homes, whether that be a converted warehouse in Melbourne or a weatherboard cottage from the 1920s. Bondi Beach apartment by Adele McNab Caught up in a Miami Vice fantasy, Adele McNab couldn’t resist this apartment, stripping the space back […]
Arched booths and a feature Venetian plaster wall complement the warm timbers in this Melbourne restaurant by Peter Ryan Architects. San Lorenzo is a fine-dining Italian restaurant located in the Caribbean Business Park in the Melbourne suburb of Scoresby. Peter Ryan Architects took cues from Venice, channeling the menu and aesthetic of the clients’ other […]
You mightn’t have heard of Alicia Holgar just yet, but the Brisbane-based interior designer’s latest project has made her the darling of the local design media. Holgar has us swooning over Avian Apartment – a fluid and flowing Brisbane apartment that is all curves, cantilevers and custom-designed furniture perfectly suited to the Harry Seidler building […]
Two UK designers have come together to launch United in Design, an organisation that aims to increase racial diversity in the interior design industry. Founded by Sophie Ashby and Alexandria Dauley, United in Design seeks to provide an “actionable road map” for design studios, magazines and suppliers to address the lack of representation and make […]
Open House returns to Melbourne on 25 and 26 July with a range of live events available to stream from the comfort of your home anywhere in Australia. After COVID-19 forced this year’s edition online, the annual architecture event teamed up with Melbourne-based immersive tech studio PHORIA. Together they compiled Australia’s largest collection of virtual […]
“Teasing out beauty from the mundane,” COX Architecture preserved much of the original structure of a 1940s English country retreat, transforming it into Osteria Tedesca. Located in the Victorian town of Red Hill, the restaurant serves Mornington Peninsula produce with a kitchen built around a wood fired oven and grill, and is headed by chef […]
Studio Bright has restored and enlarged a prominent corner-sited Edwardian home in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote to include a nod to Ancient Rome. Ruckers Hills house won last week’s 2020 Victorian Architecture Awards – Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) prize and was featured in this year’s Open House Speaker Series, earlier in […]
ARM Architecture completely replaced the interior of the Australia on Collins shopping centre in Melbourne’s CBD, inspired by the Italian custom of strolling known as ‘la passeggiata’. The high-end retail centre dubbed St. Collins Lane was shortlisted for last week’s Victorian Architecture Award. The project missed out on a nod, but ARM did take home […]
Sydney furniture and industrial designer James Walsh took home this year’s Australian Furniture Design Award with a rammed earth and recycled glass filings bench that “reinvents ancient material tradition”. The terracotta toned piece, called Anthropic Bench, combines earth and glass to produce “a seductive, sustainable and hard wearing composite.” Walsh spent a month experimenting with […]
The latest in architecture
The coronavirus pandemic has presented architects and designers with the opportunity to address more than just hygiene shortcomings in the workplace in 2021, according to Herman Miller Australia national workplace insight manager Kirsten Brown. In this video interview with ADR editor Elisa Scarton, Brown says the industry needs to look beyond COVID-19 in the new […]
The Students Reinventing Cities competition from C40 Cities tasks students from across the globe with envisioning green cities post-pandemic. Led by C40 Cities, a global network of cities committed to climate action, the competition aims to drive more active collaboration between cities, students and academia. Students Reinventing Cities asks multi-disciplinary teams formed by students in […]
Tamsin McLean has been named ASPECT Studios’ Chief Operating Officer, leading one of Australia’s most revered landscape architecture practices into a post-pandemic future. McLean has previously held key managerial positions at Woods Bagot and Bates Smart and was a principal at Activate Strategy Group where she collaborated with service-based businesses facing critical organisational change. It […]
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve compiled a last minute Christmas gift guide for architects and designers. It includes one very festive cocktail set, the obligatory desk accessory and tongue-in-cheek plate collection from a young ceramic artist. Hare + Klein Interior by Meryl Hare Hare + Klein Interior is a visual reminder of how our […]
After a 2020 hiatus, Design Tasmania launches its 2021 program and celebrates its 45th Anniversary with a rebranding. Design Tasmania is continuing to cultivate a networked community of designers, with a 2021 program that showcases the best of the state’s design through events and exhibitions that look back in order to look forward. “Moving into […]
Australian rendering and pre-built visualisation company FloodSlicer has won a 2020 CGarchitect 3D Award for their abstract exploration of a South Melbourne mixed-use development. The CGarchitect Architectural 3D Awards were introduced in 2004 to recognize outstanding achievement in the field of architectural visualization. 2020 marks the award’s 17th year, attracting entries from top studios, freelancers […]
Artist Geoff Nees has teamed up with Kengo Kuma to create a gallery-scale circular timber pavilion for the upcoming NGV Triennial. The architecture installation, which will be on display at the NGV Triennial in Melbourne from 19 December, originally drew inspiration from the facade of the Australian Pavilion at The World Exposition 2005, on which […]
Sydney-based strategic design agency Frost Collective have led the branding for GPT Group’s $238 million Queen & Collins project. The redevelopment by Kerstin Thompson Architects and BVN Architecture integrates multiple buildings in Melbourne’s famed Gothic Bank precinct into a ‘city within a city’. GPT Group sought out Frost Collective to create the communications strategy and […]
It’s December already! We’re kicking off our review of 2020 with a look at the year’s best interviews with Australian designers and architects. “We’re here to live, not to defy death. Our architecture should do the same” – Koichi Takada A chance virtual encounter with Koichi Takada in the middle of Melbourne’s second lockdown turned into an […]
Architectus has announced key appointments within its transport sector design team as it undertakes work on some of Australia’s most significant infrastructure projects. Most recently, Mena Kubba has joined Architectus as a senior associate in Melbourne. She has commenced as the linewide lead for Stage One of the Suburban Rail Loop project, Victoria’s largest ever […]
Photographs, sketches, drawings and original artworks capture the career of Philip Cox in a new book about the Australian architect. Divided it five chapters, Philip Cox: An Australian Architecture documents the architect’s lengthy career from his early projects in NSW in the 1960s to COX Architecture’s expansion into Asia in the 1990s onwards. Alongside pictures […]
An ambitious Specialist Disability Accommodation project by DPN Casa Capace includes a suite of automated features that give residents control and independence. DPN Casa Capace, the social impact business incubated by property investment company DPN, is taking Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) in Australia to a new height. Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) aims to […]
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