The latest in interiors
To coincide with its 250th anniversary, the RA Café, lobby space and courtyard bar at the Royal Academy of Arts in London has been transformed by Transit Studio in collaboration with Lot Studio. The brief and budget were challenging, and Transit Studio had a very short timeframe; the first meeting to opening was just five months. […]
Stepping away from the wonder cabinet, safari club and casino lounge style that has pervaded clubs over the past 10 years, Love Machine knows exactly what it is and, more importantly, who its audience is. This is a dance club where audiovisual technology is the main event. With visual touchstones from Stanley Kubrick to Tron, […]
Workplace interior design and fit-out business, Unispace, has appointed Julie Watts to the position of design principal, based in Melbourne. Watts joins the practice from Cox Architecture, adding to the growing number of women specialising in workplace design within Unispace, globally. With a passion for sustainability and a broad range of experience from hospitality to healthcare, […]
The latest residential project from Marc&Co is a home that has been renovated with care and a design concept executed with expertise. In a subtropical city like Brisbane, the historic housing of which is defined by its timber construction traditions, it is a rare and welcomed challenge for architects to tackle a house made of bricks. Architect […]
High in the sky at 101 Collins Street in Melbourne, Boston Consulting Group is enjoying its new workplace created by Bates Smart. There are workplaces and then there are fabulous places to work and the new Melbourne office for Boston Consulting Group (BCG) definitely falls into the latter category. There is every possible amenity and […]
T A SQUARE’s design for the Asian Grocer at The Glen in Melbourne puts a new spin on the traditional market to suit a modern consumer. Architect’s statement The project takes fundamental elements of traditional Asian markets and has implemented them with a more formal and functional tone. The use of small Asian characteristic elements […]
Located in Antwerp, Belgium, Mooy’s two-fold offering fuses healthy food with premium skincare products. Multiple shades of pink take a leading role in WeWantMore’s design for Mooy, which was inspired by the round shape of a ‘tache de beauté, one of seven attributes of female beauty. The biggest challenge for this 120 square metre shop location, says Mooy, […]
Conceived as having one foot in the boardroom and the other in the vineyard, Carr’s design for Treasury Wine Estates brings the vineyard to Collins Street. With no previous client relationship the project was won through a tender that saw Carr reimagine the idea of a vineyard as a subtle flow of nuanced references without […]
The winners of VIVID 2018 were announced at a special awards ceremony last week at the Decor + Design exhibition in Melbourne. Selected from over 50 finalists, this year’s VIVID award winners include Eamon Riley (Furniture design), Thomas Cohen (Object design), Kirsten Wang (Concept design), Pauline Tsolos and Darcey Zelenko (Lighting design), Dustin Fritsche (Judges Choice) and […]
The latest project from Cumulus Studio in Tasmania presents the best of both the old and the new in a design for a boutique hotel that offers every modern comfort within a Heritage overlay. Located on the banks of the River Tamar in Launceston, Stillwater Seven is a slice of Australian history re-imagined as a […]
The new Woodside Energy headquarters in Perth is one of the first projects in the city to achieve a 6 Star Green Star rating for office design from the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA). Woodside’s new 32-storey home at Capital Square (also called Mia Yellagonga after the Whadjuk elder who lived nearby) was designed by […]
Melbourne-based Tandem design studio has created a unique and memorable shopping experience for sheepskin shoe and clothing brand Yellow Earth. Architect’s statement The shop combines elements inspired by the wool industry with the visual clarity of gallery design, to create a zoned shopping experience of interwoven stories. Knitted yarn inspired the curving, rope shopfront and suspended […]
The latest in architecture
Look for the opportunities you weren’t open to or even aware of before because you were “blinkered” is Nicci Green’s advice to anyone running a business during the coronavirus pandemic. In another of our virtual fireside chat with Australian architects and designers about leadership in the time of COVID-19, the Melbourne-based lighting designer behind Articolo […]
Part four of our Working from Home video series sees a colourful, art-filled office/ indoor swimming pool, a camera confident pre-teen and more great tips on maintaining health and wellness from all over the country. Last week we took a peek into the home offices of Gray Puksand Victorian partner Mark Freeman, Krost A&D manager […]
In this week’s A+D + coronavirus update, we share maps of our deserted cities, shipping container intensive care units and the first of our virtual fireside chats with Australian architects and designers about leadership during COVID-19. Coronavirus could reverse trend for open plan offices The World Economic Forum has published an article highlighting 10 ways office design […]
The Victorian State Government has officially given the green light to the $2 billion Southbank by Beulah project conceptualised by UNStudio and COX Architecture. Lodged in August 2019, the permit will now allow Beulah to officially transform the current CBD BMW site into a vertical village spanning a total of 270,000 square metres. Envisioned as […]
With just one week to go until IDEA 2020 early bird entries close, we asked our judges what they’ll be looking for when choosing winners for this year’s Interior Design Excellence Awards. Early bird entries close on 30 April, so enter now to make sure that you don’t miss out on saving $90 on you entry. Read on […]
Call it serendipity, call it a silver lining… however you choose to look at it, sometimes a product comes along displaying such exquisite timing, it’s hard not to see it as meant to be. And right now the Para Vert is just such a product. With a staggering proportion of the global population largely confined […]
Weather the storm by sticking to your current strategies and not rushing into new fields is Paul Conrad’s leadership advice to practices working through the coronavirus pandemic. In the second of our virtual fireside chats with Australian architects and designers about leadership in the time of COVID-19, the principal of the eponymous Melbourne architectural and […]
Two square metres of solar windows will do the same job as a standard solar rooftop panel, Australian researchers say. Semitransparent solar cells that can be incorporated into windows could transform architecture, urban planning and electricity generation, Australian scientists say in a paper in Nano Energy. The researchers, led by Professor Jacek Jasieniak from the ARC […]
Multidisciplinary design practice Fender Katsalidis has begun its $20 million development at Levantine Hill Estate in Victoria’s Yarra Valley. The sculptural three-level complex is a soaring barrel vault that creates new sight-lines over the winery landscape. In concert with the neighbouring cellar door, the design will raise the bar even higher for hospitality in the […]
The Cradle to Cradle certification program is one of the world’s most respected guides to ethical and sustainable practices in manufacturing and product distribution. It’s a program with which Shaw Contract has been long aligned. While the world undergoes what looks like being the biggest test of its resilience in 80 years and the future […]
Architects and designers around the world are responding to global mask shortages caused by the coronavirus outbreak by sharing the designs for DIY, 3D-printed and CNC-cut masks. The Federal Government has predicted lockdown measures will remain in place for another three weeks, but even after restrictions are eased, social distancing and masks are likely to […]
April is World Landscape Architecture Month. We’re sheltering in place, but we can still celebrate by taking a look at upcoming landscape design trends with two of the country’s top designers. Carolyn Blackman has presented landscape design and gardening talkback radio on alternate Saturday mornings with Libby Gorr on ABC 774 for 22 years. She heads up […]
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