The latest in interiors
Custom furniture and an abundance of contemporary art capture the eye in this Sydney home, designed by Studio CD last year. Interior designer Claire Driscoll Delmar says the young family was looking for “an expressive city home” that doubled as a “calming space”. The five-bedroom property, with its 1880s facade, has heritage features, like corniced […]
“No one answer fits all” when it comes to juggling a client’s personality with the curatorial eye and style of the interior designer, says Simone Haag. The interior stylist spoke to ADR about styling considerations and working with architectural typologies after recently completing a series of two-and three-storey townhouses in the Melbourne suburb of Balaclava. […]
Inspired by “a polished gem emerging from the rough”, Studio Tate’s interiors for Hotel Chadstone’s newly opened spa are awash in blush tones and soft lighting. Conceived as a “an urban sanctuary”, Holism Retreat is located on the mezzanine level of the new MGallery by Sofitel Hotel Chadstone, located almost 20 kilometres to the south-east […]
White perforated screens and concrete are paired with tobacco leather and black mirrored coffee tables in this Melbourne office, designed by Mim Studio. Home to the building company Cobild, the interiors draw inspiration from the mesh cladding that lines the building’s exterior, designed by Fieldwork, in the suburb of Cremorne. “Clear sightlines, visual connections and […]
Sydney designer Greg Natale has opened his first flagship store – a highly polished space in the city’s Potts Point’s Gowrie Gate building. Built in 1938 and designed by architect Dudley Ward, the Gowrie Gate building has a distinctly Art Deco look. Natale wanted the store’s interiors to accentuate that design era, while also making […]
A track-based copper work table is at the heart of this thought experiment by Bijl Architecture, which unites the kitchen and garden in a cramped Australian suburban block. Designed through HouseLab’s digital platform ConceptSpaces, the kitchen is part of a series of design challenges presented to Australian designers, asking them to redefine the traditional spaces […]
Charcoal logs and blackened foliage transport Woodcut’s new Melbourne offices to the birch forests of the former Yugoslavia, designed by local studio Mim Design. A family-owned timber flooring company, Woodcut’s founders wanted the space to reflect days spent exploring the forests of their grandfather’s property in Eastern Europe. Laid across one long floor in Richmond, […]
What is the future of interior design? With the rise of social media platforms like Instagram and Pinterest – both of which launched in 2010 – the industry experienced, perhaps for the first time, changes that went beyond trends and colours to include new marketing strategies, the threat of the DIY-stylist and the increasingly difficult […]
The harsh local sun is put to good use in the external overhead canopy that covers the Sibling Espresso courtyard, casting the brand’s graphic motif throughout the space. Located in Seminyak, Bali, Sibling Espresso is part of the destination’s “inevitable evolution from beachside Bali to luxury resort town”, infusing it with “a love for fine […]
Australian designers, architects and tradies have come together to do their bit for those who have lost everything in the recent bushfires. Last week, ADR covered the Architects Assist initiative, which connects those who have lost their homes in the fires with qualified architects and designers offering pro bono advice and design services. Tradies For […]
A pared-back palette with locally sourced jarrah, slate-like tiles and retro white bricks were chosen to give WeWork’s Central Park location a “coastal, yet warm and rich” feel. Designed in-house, the space is WeWork’s first in Perth and 21st in Australia with the American commercial real estate company set to open more spaces in Sydney […]
A deceptively simple exterior hides the four buildings that make up the newly opened Midnight Hotel in the nation’s capital. Designed with Russian nesting dolls in mind, the boutique accommodation and residential development looks like one building from the exterior. It was a difficult brief for Fender Katsalidis, with the practice working to create a […]
The latest in architecture
The rows of workstations where employees sit at the same desk year after year will be “less in demand” post COVID-19, says Architectus CEO Ray Brown. Instead, Brown says companies should be drawing inspiration from the university “sticky campus” model if they want their employees to return to their office following the pandemic. “A few […]
In our ongoing series on women in architecture, we chat to Lyons project architect Stephanie Lancuba on the fears, challenges and influences that have changed her course as a young designer. When did you first become interested in architecture and design? From a young age, I was generally interested in creative pursuits, but my connection to the construction […]
After 15 years at Carr, most recently in the role of interior design director, Dan Cox has been named a principal at Hassell. The Perth-born interior designer and past IDEA judge spoke to ADR just six days after taking over the new role, in the middle of Melbourne’s second coronavirus lockdown. “I went in to […]
With Point Lonsdale house, Edition Office stays true to its path-breaking form, reimagining the beachside shack as a puzzle of moving parts that transforms spaces from cavernous to intimate in an instant. Point Lonsdale, a coastal township near Queenscliff on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula, is known for its weathered terrain, its 100-year-old Norfolk pines and for […]
MPavilion 2020 has teamed up with Open House Melbourne and Melbourne Music Week to invite five Australian artists to play in a selection of heritage locations this month. The initiative is part of MERGE—a collaborative music and design initiative commissioned by MPavilion for Open House Melbourne’s July and MPavilion/Melbourne Music Week’s November 2020 program. The artists will […]
It’s a dying art, but one that John Sargood preserves in a workshop cluttered with perfectly detailed miniatures of Woods Bagot buildings destined to grace skylines the world over. It’s an almost impossible task to capture John Sargood’s world in print. Reading back over our conversation, it’s quickly apparent that so much is missing. Sargood […]
A covered outdoor community space, change rooms, kiosk and public toilet sit under one “civic scale” roof in the Marsden Park Amenities by CHROFI. The project took out the Robert Woodward Award for Small Project Architecture at the 2020 New South Wales Architecture Awards this week, where it was praised for its “ephemeral and playful” […]
Chenchow Little has created three-dimensional internal voids with expansive arched windows in this family home in the inner Sydney suburb of Glebe. Known for its Victorian terrace houses and narrow streets, Glebe has small allotments and a high density of housing in comparison to other Sydney suburbs. The site for Chenchow Little’s Glebe House is […]
The ability to work, live and play all within 20 minutes’ reach is the new gold standard. In planning circles, it’s a concept known as the 20-minute neighbourhood, and it has surged in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rise of the 20-minute neighbourhood has come from people’s desire to return to living locally and […]
Carr has announced the elevation and appointment of three members of the leadership team. Joining the team at Carr as an associate in the residential interiors team is Anouche Levy. With over 20 years’ experience, Anouche brings a wealth of expertise having both run her own studio and worked in several practices. Encompassing a broad range […]
As the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel comes into view, the design community must rally to make employees feel safe as we begin to reoccupy shared spaces. Zenith Interiors consulted their market leading clients to provide a vision of the health-centric office post-pandemic. The Association of Consulting Architects Australia (ACA) conducted three […]
ADR heads back into the Tasmanian wilderness to explore how one of Australia’s most striking example of Indigenous architecture – Krakani-lumi – has adapted to its surroundings and the community that cares for it. As the timber pavilions of krakani-lumi were airlifted into the Mount William (wukalina) National Park, architects Mat Hinds and Poppy Taylor […]
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