Architects and interior designers from all over Australia cheered on extraordinary local design at The Timber Yard in Melbourne for this year’s IDEA Gala party. A couple of months ago, we made the decision to postpone our awards ceremony, which was originally scheduled for November 2020, until we could all come together safely and securely. After the scare that was […]
To celebrate the release of the new portable &Tradition Flowerpot Portable Table Lamp by Verner Panton, ADR has teamed up with Cult for a very special giveaway. In 1968, Danish designer Verner Panton penned a vividly coloured lamp that embodied the experimental attitude of its creator. Now, more than five decades later, fellow design brand […]
Esoteriko, Flack Studio and Richards Stanisich took home the top prizes at the IDEA 2020 gala party in Melbourne tonight. Esoteriko was named best emerging designer, while Flack Studio was Designer of the Year and Richards Stanisich picked up Overall Winner. The winning studios were chosen from more than 300 submissions by a jury of […]
Tonight is the night we announce the IDEA 2020 winners! In the finale of our talking trends series with a few of our favourite industry leaders, we catch up with Interstudio. Interstudio was relaunched in 2012 to showcase fresh, contemporary designs from emerging European, Scandinavian and local Australian designers. The Australian company works across the full spectrum […]
To mark the start of Tradies National Health Month on Saturday 1 August, the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) wants tradies to ditch the old-school ‘she’ll be right’ attitude to their health so they can continue to support Australia’s economic recovery. Trade work across the construction and home building sectors has been relatively unscathed by […]
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winners of the Rethink: 2025 international design competition. Inviting architects and students from across the globe to consider what life and our built environment would look like post-COVID-19, the competition settled on three joint winners. Almost 150 entries were submitted from 18 countries with entrants given seven […]
Architects have designed these five houses for themselves, applying their exacting design standards to their own home sweet homes, whether that be a converted warehouse in Melbourne or a weatherboard cottage from the 1920s. Bondi Beach apartment by Adele McNab Caught up in a Miami Vice fantasy, Adele McNab couldn’t resist this apartment, stripping the space back […]
Development approval for the 600 Lonsdale Street site in Melbourne CBD has been granted to Chicago-based architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and local architects Fender Katsalidis. The corner site is set to be transformed into a $500 million 40-storey tower with combined hotel and office functions after recently gaining development approval. Resembling a […]
Melbourne-based NH Architecture has revealed its flexible design for the CENTREPIECE at Melbourne Park event space. The firm was selected to design CENTREPIECE as part of the Melbourne & Olympic Park precinct’s third and final stage of its $972 million redevelopment. The design team was challenged with creating an event space with the inbuilt adaptability […]
ASPECT Studios has designed a multi-level linear sky park filled with curved pools and impromptu performance spaces in Chengdu, China. Dubbed the HyperLane, the 2.4-kilometre park links the Chengdu fast train station with the city’s music and arts university district. The site in China’s Sichuan province was originally a series of “derelict walled spaces” that […]
Open House returns to Melbourne on 25 and 26 July with a range of live events available to stream from the comfort of your home anywhere in Australia. After COVID-19 forced this year’s edition online, the annual architecture event teamed up with Melbourne-based immersive tech studio PHORIA. Together they compiled Australia’s largest collection of virtual […]
“Teasing out beauty from the mundane,” COX Architecture preserved much of the original structure of a 1940s English country retreat, transforming it into Osteria Tedesca. Located in the Victorian town of Red Hill, the restaurant serves Mornington Peninsula produce with a kitchen built around a wood fired oven and grill, and is headed by chef […]