The latest in interiors
Having worked on two large Melbourne venues The Espy and Garden State Hotel, Nick Travers, director at Technē Architecture + Interior Design, tells ADR how to design multi-faceted, layered spaces at scale. The secret of a successful large hospitality venue is making it feel intimate. While a typical bar and restaurant project might be anywhere […]
Shanghai-based studio Linehouse has designed two adjoining venues, one offering coffee, the other wine, and breathed new life into the humblest of materials – rattan. The two venues, named Bird and Bitter are separated by an alleyway near Changshu Lu in Shanghai. Bitter focuses on daytime coffee and early evening aperitifs and Bird serves wine […]
Time is almost up to enter the Shaw Contract Design Awards and be recognised globally for excellence in architecture and design. Returning for the 14th year, the Shaw Contract Design Awards recognise the creative vision of the architects and designers who inspire new ways of living, working, learning and healing. The awards place a spotlight […]
The Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) are back for 2019 with a refreshed look. You may notice something a little different this year about IDEA – Australia’s premier awards program for interior designers and architects has had a makeover of its own, with a contemporary new logo and font. IDEA has also added a new category […]
Tasmania-based Liminal Studio is renowned for its innovative and multidisciplinary projects and, again, the practice has explored and created yet another dimension to its architecture and design portfolio through Liminal Spaces and the set design for the contemporary dance production Dust. Collaborating as a production designer with Dancenorth, a dance company based in Townsville, Queensland, […]
Hospitality design is constantly changing. We’ve seen the use of bright colours, textured walls and natural materials fall in and out of popularity. So what does 2019 have in store for the world of hospitality design? Toby Ewert, director of Ewert Leaf takes a look at what to expect this year. Following on from a huge year […]
Earlier this week design supplier Cafe Culture + Insitu announced that it was rebranding to Design Nation. ADR catches up with founder and director Marnie Hammond to take a behind-the-scenes look at the newly named company. Cafe Culture + Insitu started out in Canterbury, Sydney in 1998 with a trade showroom supplying café furniture direct […]
Christopher Elliott Design was given carte blanche to design a pop-up store for shoe brand Phare and used the opportunity to use bold colour as the main element of the design. Due to the impermanence of a pop-up store, Christopher Elliot Design had to ensure the design had little impact on the existing space, paint aside. […]
The National Gallery of Victoria wants to spark a broader discussion around how design can shape our future during next month’s Melbourne Design Week. The theme this year focuses on ‘Design Experiments’ and aims to provide “an opportunity for designers to reflect on what they do, to imagine new and better ways of doing things, […]
As Zenith introduces All Sorts Additions, an extension of Swiss Design’s original All Sorts collection, ADR catches up with Darren McKinnon, director of Swiss Design to talk about the inspiration behind the range and its design evolution. As a director of a manufacturing company, Darren McKinnon is often consumed with running the business. So when […]
Netherlands-based architecture and interior design firm Concrete has designed a hotel in Bergen, Norway for travellers seeking a unique accommodation experience. With just an average of 50 hours of sunlight per month in winter, the city of Bergen is starved of daylight for a large chunk of the year. To combat the feeling of seasonal affective […]
Designed by Killing Matt Woods, the interior of Percy Plunkett café in Penrith, NSW is a unique response to heritage, as inside co-editor Gillian Serisier discovers. Approaching each project as a unique entity, Killing Matt Woods (KMW) produces interiors that are never expected, always interesting and, more importantly, completely relevant to area, client and aspiration. […]
Woods Bagot’s design for Market Grounds, a contemporary pub located in Perth’s CBD, combines the city’s food and beverage culture with its outdoor lifestyle. Paying homage to the original Perth Market Grounds located on the site, the venue is a series of eclectic spaces that present a variety of dining and bar experiences to suit […]
Last September, audiovisual production company Attraction moved into its new workspace and for the 300 or so employees, the change was drastic. Previously divided by activity sectors on two different floors, each with their own corporate identity and culture, the company left its closed offices behind to join together in a shared single floor space of 53,000 sq […]
ADR is adding a new stream of content to bring you even more insightful, inspiring news! Beginning next week, ADR will publish content around a changing theme each month on a key industry sector, in addition to our regular content. Kicking off with Hospitality, you can expect to read about fresh, new projects, hear from designers and […]
WALA architecture studio has transformed a rundown Post Office into a coffee shop that reflects the idea of ‘home’. Located in Melbourne’s inner west, The Little Man Cafe is located along the main community strip in Seddon. The corner lot site once belonged to a Post Office, which has since moved a couple of spots up […]
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The latest in architecture
Welsh designer Bethan Gray showcases her latest collection in Australia featuring pieces inspired by her travels in the Middle East and her own rich heritage. Available in Living Edge stores, the Shamsian collection is named after Iranian artist Mohamad Reza Shamsian, with whom Gray collaborated. Shamsian has been making pieces for the Sultan of Oman for the past 40 years, but […]
Nicole Dent and Esther Chew have been promoted to practice partners at the associate director level at the Adelaide-based Grieve Gillett Andersen (GGA). Together Dent and Chew join Paul Gillett and Dimitty Andersen at the helm of the architecture practice, with Steve Grieve recently stepping aside as director and member of the board. Dent joined the team in 2017, […]
Fanning out like a hand of poker, BIG’s The Heights project in Arlington, Virginia, cleverly replicates the community feel of a one-story school while leveraging the spatial advantages of a multi-storey facility. The unique design sees five stacked volumes twisting fan-like up from the ground with the roof of the volume beneath creating a green […]
In designing the new Oxford Scholar, March Studio brought the personal as well as the expertise learnings of RMIT to the project. When a student at RMIT, Rodney Eggleston, now director of March Studio, was being critiqued by the much respected professor Peter Corrigan AM (notably the designer of Building 8 at RMIT and Athan […]
Melbourne-based architecture studio Lovell Burton has been awarded the ArchiTeam Medal for its galvanised sheet metal-clad Springhill House project in the Macedon Ranges. Lovell Burton was one of 14 practices or individual architects to be recognised with an award or medal at Wednesday night’s Architeam awards gala. The ArchiTeam Medal is awarded to a category-winning […]
“The type of buildings we invest in perpetuates the system,” says Timothy Hill ahead of his appearance at the Sydney Architecture Festival this weekend. Speaking to ADR, Hill says the government’s recently announced mortgage guarantee scheme to help first home buyers enter the property market is not the right way to approach the housing affordability crisis […]
Simplicity embodying complexity is how Australia’s only Pritzker Prize-winning architect described his design for Melbourne’s MPavilion 2019. Speaking at the opening of the city’s latest example of temporary architecture, Glenn Murcutt described both his 50-year career and his first civic city design as a study in simplicity. “I love simplicity,” he said. “It’s the hardest thing to […]
Yesterday, we held the inaugural Business of Architecture and Design conference at the Parliament of NSW, which saw industry leaders come together to discuss key topics like disruption, technological innovation and change, and the impact of a rising Asian market on Australian practices. BVN co-CEO Ninotschka Titchkosky kicked off the event with a keynote presentation in which she drew […]
Here’s a look at five projects from architecture and interior design practice Cumulus Studio, which is shortlisted in the hospitality and colour categories at this year’s IDEA. With offices in Hobart, Launceston and Melbourne, Cumulus Studio’s work to date has helped define the architectural vernacular of Australia’s southern states. Its Stillwater Seven project, which is […]
Lenders are reluctant to lend and buyers don’t want to buy when it comes to high-rise developments. That’s according to RiskWise Property Research’s latest analysis of the construction industry, which has been hit hard over recent months following the high-profile cases of the Mascot and Opal towers in New South Wales. RiskWise CEO Doron Peleg […]
The 2018 IDEA winner for the Institutional category, Monash University Learning and Teaching Building (LTB) was designed by John Wardle Architects, renowned for its conceptual approach to architecture and design through placemaking, coupled with significant experience in the changing typology of the education sector. Information and communication technology has significantly impacted student learning and more […]
A new salary benchmark report has been published, which finds effective leadership is crucial to securing and retaining Australia’s best talent in 2020. The report includes statistics for the construction and architecture industry, finding the roles in greatest demand are (in descending order): project manager project engineer estimator business development manager site manager, and contracts administrator. […]
Architect Sam Perversi-Brooks continues his knack for attracting unconventional briefs with this blue and green-themed home in the Melbourne suburb of Elwood. In keeping with the unique list of projects Perversi-Brooks undertaken since establishing his practice in 2014, the brief for the recently completed Cabinet of Curiosities House came with its own set of idiosyncrasies. The […]
These days substantial homes situated in the suburbs are often sprawling monolithic creations that are well-designed and bang on trend, but lack a distinct personality. Nothing could be further from the truth, however, when talking of Armadale residence. The project, designed by Travis Walton, principal of Travis Walton Architecture & Interior Design, is a spectacular […]
Fire Protection Association Australia (FPA Australia) has launched a new register of fire protection practitioners to connect building industry professionals with FPA Australia Corporate members who currently prepare plans and specifications for the installation or modification of fire safety systems in NSW. The new Fire Systems Design – NSW Interim Register is a response to […]
The Business of Architecture and Design conference, our agenda-setting Sydney conference, is today! Didn’t manage to get a ticket? Follow along on our Twitter page as we tweet from the event starting at 8:15am AEST, and join the discussion using #BOAD19. Our inaugural conference will address the changes that are taking place within the built environment – […]
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