The latest in interiors
Hands up if you’re one of those people now feeling more than a little confused about the optimal way of working at a desk. After years of being told that we’re all too sedentary and that we should be standing at our workspaces, rather than sitting, now there are reports that too much standing can’t […]
The design concept by Mason Studio for iQ Food Co’s flagship restaurant reflects the brand’s ethos of bringing together food, music, and art in a welcoming environment. Architect’s statement Located within Yorkdale’s west-wing expansion, this is iQ’s largest location to date at 2200 sq ft. The prominent corner location, which includes a 40-person dining room […]
Flooring company Shaw Contract has introduced a new collection of woven luxury vinyl tiles (LVT) that transform spaces with a convergence of tonal gradations and colour. Called reFrame, the collection of 9x36in sized tiles was created by The Shaw Contract Design Studio, which developed a visual with a tonal, fade-out effect, using colour transitions with […]
The latest ADR breakfast event – Education Design for Primary and Secondary Schools – has sold out. ADR is looking forward to welcoming you at Prahran High School next week when the savviest design brains in the education space will talk about the state of play and the future trends for those looking to work in […]
German artist Sabine Hornig has unveiled a major photographic installation adoring a 170-metre glass walkway. Titled Shadows, the large-scale photographic installation, inspired by the native flora of Sydney, articulates a 170-metre walkway connecting Barangaroo South’s three International Towers. Commissioned by Lendlease in 2017 and completed in September 2019, the vast site-specific work is made up of transparent images of native flora […]
Civilization: The Way We Live Now opens at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia today, an international photography exhibition featuring over 100 contemporary photographers from Australia and across the globe. The exhibition features over 200 original photographs from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. Presented in collaboration with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, […]
Luke Cannon of Studio Ginger and Richard Oakley and Fonda Valasis of Edge Concepts have announced they have merged their businesses to form new creative studio Sandbox, offering an expanded design approach for retail clients. Sandbox will unite staff from Studio Ginger and Edge Concepts in a new headquarters in the Bayside suburb of Hampton, […]
Technē Architecture + Interior Design has announced the promotion of architect Sam Sempill to Associate. Sempill has worked at Technē for the past 16 months and has 15 years’ industry experience under her belt. Her project work has spanned a variety of sectors including hospitality, residential, commercial and education. “Sam is a great asset to […]
With a lack of connection between the staff at headquarters and hotel properties, Hyatt employed Gensler to consolidate several offices throughout Chicago and bring them into the 21st century. Architect’s statement Hyatt’s move to 150 N. Riverside Plaza brought this Chicago-based hospitality corporation’s colleagues together under one roof in a new architectural landmark. With a […]
Designed by Odami and located in Toronto, Sara restaurant not only has a strong emphasis on texture and materiality, it also actively encourages diners to abandon their digital devices. The concept for the restaurant in Toronto’s Entertainment District imagined a more intimate setting, where guests could store away their phones and be more present. For […]
Australian Design Review (ADR) is excited to announce the launch of the Business of Architecture of Design (BOAD) podcast series, created to help architectural and design practices run their businesses better. Each episode will bring you interviews with leading architects and designers who will share their business experiences and expertise and give you valuable insights into running […]
Located in Toronto, the architecture of the Goh Ballet Academy is stripped back and minimal to reflect director Chan Han Goh’s early days of dance training in her parent’s basement. The brief to Batay-Csorba Architects was to design a space that is light and airy and can account for the various movements undertaken by the dancers. To […]
The latest in architecture
The new Architects Award 2020 document has come into effect with notable changes to six clauses. The Association of Consulting Architects Australia has been negotiating changes with the Fair Work Commission (FWC) in the 2014 and 2018 award reviews. The decisions of both these award reviews have now been determined and handed down by the […]
In this week’s A+D + coronavirus update, we share news of screens for social distancing on planes, guidance on how to thrive in a new post-COVID-19 reality and Russia’s online pavilion for the 2020 Venice Biennale. Watch our Working from Home series In this week’s collection of WFH videos, we hear from Architectus’ Marina Carroll and more. Watch the […]
Practices and studios need to think beyond the now to how they want to be positioned when the coronavirus pandemic passes, says interior design strategy and practice director Carley Nicholls. In another of our virtual fireside chats with Australian architects and designers about leadership in the time of COVID-19, the co-director of Melbourne’s Studio Tate brings the […]
In its first private house since 2006, Foster + Partners has topped this Turkish villa with a rippling timber roof to complement its rugged setting. The Dolunay Villa is located along the coast of the Aegean Sea in Turkey’s southwestern province of Mugla. Accessed from the north, with a curving road that leads to the drop-off […]
In a video interview with Architectus principal Marina Carroll and senior associate Elizabeth Seuseu, filmed in the less-than-ideal settings we’re all painfully familiar with now, the women speak frankly about gender and the industry with Australian Design Review and inside editor Elisa Scarton. Carroll joined Architectus Sydney in 2012. With a particular interest in learning […]
Architecture practice TERROIR has revealed its design for Tasmania’s North West Museum and Art Gallery (NWMAG). The Burnie City Council’s architecture brief for the new cultural facility in Tasmania’s North West was a building of “style and stature”, as iconic as the art that it houses. “It would also reflect the natural environment of the […]
For our latest competition, we’re offering readers the chance to win one of 16 Aeron chairs from Herman Miller valued at $1850 each. The contest is now closed. When designers Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick set out to design the Aeron chair in 1994, they sought to create a chair that was health-positive, cross-performing, inclusively […]
Architecture is an inherently visual medium, so it’s natural that practices should not just consider photographing their projects, but actually looking to the moving image as a medium to explore and show off their wares. But filming your projects and practice is just the start… One of the biggest mistakes I see people make when […]
Dr Crystal Legacy discusses the creative opportunities of re-negotiating urban planning’s prejudices post COVID-19. It can feel tone deaf to focus on the post COVID-19 future when we remain deeply entrenched in the pandemic’s present. But this future will be shaped, and if advocates and urban design experts don’t seize this unprecedented moment to reset, […]
Making yourself available to your team members and preparing a set of guidelines to assist with working remotely, isolation and anxiety is the advice from interior designer Miriam Fanning. In another of our virtual fireside chats with Australian architects and designers about leadership in the time of COVID-19, the founder of Melbourne’s Mim Design Studio […]
Effective habits are internalised principles and patterns of behaviour that assist us to perform at our best. This is the first in the series. Habit One – Be Responsive Not Reactive Have you ever heard the term ‘knee-jerk reaction’ being used as a compliment, or even in the same sentence, as something positive? We’ve all […]
In this week’s A+D + coronavirus update, we share news of design solutions for the post-pandemic world, strategies for rebounding and an architecture-themed colouring book. Illustrator Anna Gibb draws Isolation Escapes architecture montage The British architect and illustrator has combined buildings by architects including Le Corbusier and Mies Van der Rohe to create an architectural montage of places people […]
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