The latest in interiors
Sydney-based principal Jeremy Bull and director Rachel Luchetti will join Simone Haag, Brendan Wong and The Stella Collective’s Hana Hakim on the IDEA 2020 jury to judge the country’s best architecture and interior design projects. Now in its 18th year, IDEA is one of Australia’s oldest award programs, celebrating iconic design and the people and […]
Two years after designing a tool to calculate potential gender bias in English-language architectural and design terms, London-based architectural designer Hannah Rozenberg says the industry has not done enough to address its “insidious bias. “In 2018, when I presented my project, women occupied only 10 per cent of the highest-ranking jobs at the world’s leading […]
Terence Yong Architecture used colour to solve conflicting requirements between an ambitious brief and cost constraints in its refurbishment of a Harry Seidler-designed commercial building in Sydney. The brief was to return the upper levels of a deteriorating mid-century architecture in Haymarket, which had been used commercially in different ways over the last six decades, […]
The IDEA 2020 early birds entry period has been extended to 30 April. That gives you an extra month to get your entries in and save $90. IDEA early bird entries were due to close later this week, but we’ve spoken to a lot of architects and interior designers who just need a little extra […]
Melbourne studio Technē Architecture + Interior Design has just completed a makeover of Melbourne Central, infusing the complex with a web pattern that emphasises “connections between spaces and destinations”. The studio focused on overhauling the third floor of the city shopping centre, replacing the red fluorescent lighting battens with strings of lights and gold tubing. […]
Last week, we reached out to the architecture and interior design community to ask how we could help during the COVID-19 outbreak. At lot of people asked us for practical, industry-specific tips on working from home. For a lot of designers and architects, we know it’s uncharted territory and a scary one at that. Design […]
When we sat down to write this message to our readers and everyone in the Australian architecture and interior design industry, we wrote and rewrote dozens of introductions, but there are no perfect words. And really everything we wanted to say can be summed up in these four words. How can we help? Since […]
With five days until early bird entries for IDEA 2020 close, we reached out to a few of last year’s winners to find out how they sum up Australian design, what winning has meant to them and, most importantly, where they’ve put their trophy. The IDEA 2020 trophy is designed by multi-disciplinary Australian studio Axolotl, […]
Brisbane studio Collectivus set the tone for the new Pelci skin and beauty clinic as calm and warm, but with a playfulness that comes from its liberal use of colour. One colour in particular – Pantone’s Colour of the Year for 2020 or, at the very least, a shade inspired by the brand’s Classic Blue. […]
With more than 15 years under her belt, Yasmine Saleh Ghoniem is known for her boundary pushing and bespoke style. Previously at the helm of Amber Road with landscape architect and sister Katy Svalbe, Ghoniem struck out on her own in February, launching YSG in a refurbished hair salon on Liverpool Street in Darlinghurst. A […]
With 10 days left until the early bird entry period ends for IDEA 2020, here are 10 reasons why architects, interior designers and product designers should enter now. The early bird entry period ends on 30 April. If you enter before then, you’ll save $90! The standard entry deadline is 5 June. Not sure whether […]
Critically-acclaimed interior designers Brendan Wong and Hana Hakim have been revealed as 2020 IDEA jury members, joining Simone Haag in judging Australia’s best interior design and architecture projects and the studios and practices that produce them. Brendan Wong Sydney-based Brendan Wong has 25 years of experience working across the interiors industries of Australia, London and […]
The latest in architecture
Edgars Creek house is emblematic of Breathe Architecture’s respect for Australia’s native landscape. We chat to project lead Madeline Sewall about collaborating with engineers to overcome the land’s steep slope and echoing the materiality of the local bush. AR: What was the core narrative of Edgars Creek house? Madeline Sewall: This home is respectfully about […]
The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has published its first volume about the MPavilion project, the annual architecture commission and cultural laboratory held in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. MPavilion Encounters with Design and Architecture chronicles the first six years of the project with contributions from each of the MPavilion architects from 2014 to 2019. The book, published […]
Cheminées Philippe – People have had a love affair with their fireplaces since homo erectus first rubbed two sticks together and discovered the miracle of controllable flames. Whether for cooking, protection or solely as beacons of warmth, the fireplace has been the major focus of living spaces for millennia. Now, the Cheminées Philippe range doesn’t […]
Design consultancy Geyer has announced it has been acquired by The Intelligent Consulting Group, with a rebanding to usher in the company’s new era. An entrepreneurial business specialising in the property sector, The Intelligent Consulting Group is led by Group CEO Marcel Zalloua, who is also the co-founder of commercial and retail delivery specialist, Valmont. […]
ArchiTeam announces the newly shaped, completely virtual 2020 ArchiTeam Awards, including a new Passive House category for which all entrants can design the trophy. For 28 years ArchiTeam Cooperative has played a unique and important role for small practice architects. With over 780 members ArchiTeam is democratically run by members, for members with a mission […]
New research from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) finds that 1.5 million new homes were built in Australian in the 10 years from 2006 to 2016 but the growth of housing stock in each state and territory was uneven. The study, undertaken by AHURI researchers from Curtin University, University of Sydney and […]
Before the COVID-19 lockdown, Jean-Pierre Biasol and I were going to catch up at his gorgeous Melbourne studio for a coffee. Having just recently returned from living in Florence, I admit I was very much looking forward to sipping espresso with a fellow Italophile, but the best laid plans and all that. A few weeks […]
Parametric design is not simply aesthetic-focused form-finding. It’s about finding design solutions for some of the biggest challenges of our time. You might not have heard the term parametric design, but chances are you’ve come across parametric forms. Look around a city for the new buildings – the new columns at the Crown Casino Tower, […]
Brookfield Place in Sydney’s CBD tops out today, a milestone for the $2 billion collaborative project between Make Architects and Architectus. The project ambition was to amalgamate four separate sites in the Wynyard precinct into a new urban heart for Sydney. The development includes the restoration of Shell House and 285 George Street, breathing new […]
The proposed Australian Pavilion at this year’s now postponed Venice Architecture Biennale was carefully orchestrated to be inclusive of our First Nations people and our neighbours. We caught up with Jefa Greenaway and Tristan Wong to talk about why that’s all the more important, regardless of the postponement, and how architects and designers can start […]
Sans Arc drew inspiration from the famed Italian architect to create a bright, timber-heavy interior for this hole-in-the-wall bistro in the South Australian capital. Part Time Lover appears as an oasis in Adelaide. Taking cues from Himalayan guesthouses and leaning heavily on mid-century ideals, the all-day bistro behind Town Hall was designed as an older […]
Associate director at Carr, Rosie Morley explores the trends in hospitality design that have been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and how the sector should respond to an increased appetite for escapist experiences. We are experiencing the biggest global experiment of our times – forcing swift change and a rapid uptake into future technologies and […]
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