Deja vu was the feeling de jour in 2021, but the homes that graced our pages were anything but. With that in mind, ADR editor Elisa Scarton looks back at our favourite residential projects from architects and interior designers across the country in this ‘less-than-new normal’. Florida house – Nest Architects and Placement Haven is […]
It’s official! We’ll be announcing the winners for IDEA 2021 in Sydney on 24 February 2022. Buy your tickets now. From the almost 300 projects shortlisted, there can only be one winner across each of our 15 categories, but there are also five special awards. Of those, the most hotly contested has to be the 2021 Designer […]
With holidays just around the corner, we’ve compiled a last minute Christmas gift guide for architects and designers. It includes books from two Australian design legends, some very special gin and a soy sauce-shaped lamp. Koichi Takada Architecture, Nature and Design by Koichi Takada Architects The first monograph on the Japanese-born, Sydney-based architect Koichi Takada […]
The colour of the year carnival from paint brands across the globe is part and parcel of the end of any year – even one as dreadful as 2021. With that in mind, ADR has collated the top colour predictions for 2022 from our favourite paint brands from Dulux to Pantone and everyone in between. […]
Not making great design accessible to the wider community is a missed opportunity for architects and designers in Australia to enhance people’s lives, says Studio Tate director Carley Nicholls. “There’s so much that design can achieve and maximising those opportunities is really important,” Nicholls tells ADR. “You don’t just want it to be for the […]
Positioned high on the edge of the Brisbane River, Riverbank House by Wilson Architects is a love letter to the Queenslander home. Quintessential Queenslander architecture traditionally features a high single-detached house made of timber and corrugated iron with a multi-purpose veranda that extends around the house. In designing Riverbank House, Wilson Architects managing director Hamilton […]
There is something enigmatic about MORQ. Elisa Scarton catches up with the Perth and Rome-based practice to talk place, methodology and the eternal quest to stay relevant in an ever-changing industry. I discovered its project ЯĒ purely by chance. Freefalling through design websites in a sensory overloaded sea of interiors brimming with colours and objects […]
Jackson Clements Burrows inserted “hidden surprise elements” throughout the interior architecture of Divided House – the new Melbourne home of practice director Jon Clements. Clements and his wife Elisa had lived on the same Richmond street for eight years before building the home, which was completed in 2020. The practice says it was this experience […]
Sue Carr has been awarded an Order of Australia in recognition of her service to “interior design, education, and women in business” in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list. The Order of Australia recognises Australians who have displayed outstanding service or exceptional achievement in the community, acting as an opportunity to celebrate professional excellence. The […]
360 Degrees Landscape Architects used succulents and cacti to capture the client’s vision of ‘gesamtkunstwerk’ in the gardens of Sydney’s Phoenix Gallery. Located in the inner-city suburb of Chippendale, the $32 million project was privately commissioned by Judith Neilson and features a gallery designed by John Wardle Architects and a theatre space designed by Durbach […]
Design for design’s sake continues to plague the A&D industry here and overseas, but Killing Matt Woods is working to change that, starting with his own Sydney studio. “How do I get out of bed in the morning?” asks Matt Woods in response to what is possibly my biggest foot-in-mouth moment as a journalist to […]
We all leave things to the last minute, right? Which is why the IDEA 2021 entry deadline has been extended to 25 June. That gives you an extra two weeks to get your entry in! IDEA entries were due to close tomorrow, but we’ve spoken to a lot of architects and interior designers who just […]