The latest in interiors
Wander along St Georges Road in the Merri Village precinct of Fitzroy North and a delightful visual experience awaits. Via a shop-front window exhibition of sculptures and creative objet, DiMase Architects is engaging with the residents of their neighbourhood, providing accessible art and promoting a vehicle for interaction.
Slack, the messaging app for teams, launched its Australian office in Melbourne’s heritage Carlton Brewery last week, designed by Breathe Architecture.
inside's co-editor Gillian Serisier chats to Smart Design Studio's William Smart about his conscious decision to limit the firm's size to 45 and to only work on projects that suit the practice’s capacity for creativity and style.
Last week, Fanuli Furniture launched the Flexform Mood range in their Sydney showroom - the first time the collection has been on display outside of Milan.
Mezzanine explores the way local brands are engaging architects to create impactful in-store customer experiences to retain and gain market share amid an influx of international retail giants gradually making their way onto Australian shores.
With the formation of her own practice with partner Stephen Javens, Kerry Phelan is producing work that pushes the boundaries and places Kerry Phelan Design Studio at the top of the design tree.
Perth-based architect Simon Pendal talks to Peter Salhani for Mezzanine about making architecture of atmospheric beauty that works with the harsh West Australian elements.
The Gold Coast Airport (Coolangatta) is set for a $300 million redevelopment designed by Cox Architecture, following its approval by the Australian Federal Government last month.
Taylor brings 18 years of professional design experience to the Melbourne team, joining the specialised interiors firm at a time of growth in the Asia Pacific region.
Filled with a bright, youthful palette, bold lighting, and hints of the iconic arcade game era, the Swanston Street store's retro-pop fit-out exudes 8bit's playful character, and makes for a joyful place to chow down on a burger and fries.
IDEA’s Object award has now been segmented into two categories - Professional and Rising.
Melbourne's laneways have been a hotspot for the latest bars and restaurants for over a decade, but it’s the business community that is now discovering the benefits of becoming a part of this vibrant community.
With teams across the globe collaborating in the virtual realm as much as in the flesh, the shared office has evolved to become slicker as it cements itself in mainstream consciousness.
Internationally renowned British designer, Tom Dixon, has recently designed Interchange (interchange.io), a purpose-built co-working space in Camden, London – three shiny glass and metal buildings and over 7803 square metres (84,000 square feet) of co-working and office space to rent.
Designed by by Amber Road, the Cronulla Residence's beauty lies in its absence of complication. As unpretentious and simple as possible, the design tenet of wabi-sabi, which champions the simple, slow and uncluttered, is realised in this home.
In the four-metre wide space that was once the opening of a bleak alleyway, now stands a quaint and inviting cabin-like structure. A peaked roof reaches up, and while it is nowhere as high as the buildings that press against either side of it, this little venue is far from shadowed by its surrounds.
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A strong use of colour was the guiding design principle for the Ivanhoe Grammar Senior Years and Science Centre, with architects McBride Charles Ryan playing with pattern and shape. The brief for this new school building in Melbourne included a variety of general learning areas, provision for the senior year teachers and a science centre. The circular […]
AR speaks to members and the leaders of three distinct, national organisations that all provide professional support to Australian architects – the Australian Institute of Architects, Architeam and the Association of Consulting Architects – to find out what they offer and their future plans. Australian Institute of Architects The Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), which […]
Designed by BSPN Architecture, the new Centenary Library at Anglican Church Grammar School, commonly called Churchie, is the most significant project undertaken in the school’s 105-year history. The brief was to redefine the library’s role as the ‘heart-of-the-school’ during a time that many are questioning the importance and purpose of school libraries, explains Bretton Watson, director at […]
In 2014 Heatherwick Studio was commissioned to radically rethink two heritage rail buildings from the 1850s in London’s King Cross as a major new shopping district and public space. With the announcement that Coal Drops Yard is set to open to the public in October, ADR takes a look at the studio’s design. The site itself […]
The six shortlisted designs for developer Beulah International’s Southbank tower competition have been revealed, with the design concepts including twisting towers, a propeller penthouse and stacked neighbourhoods. The $2 billion mixed-use tower development in Melbourne’s Southbank will include retail, hotel, residential, commercial, cultural and public spaces. Currently occupied by a BMW car dealership, the site is […]
Family-friendly design guidelines for apartment buildings must be introduced to promote the health of the growing number of children being raised in Melbourne’s high-rise apartments, according to a new Deakin University study. The most recent statists show 79,000 Australian families live in high-rise apartments – classified as dwellings more than three stories tall – an […]
Small yet well designed, this efficient and flexible space literally must “weather the storm” of three lively young boys. The three-level townhouse in bayside Melbourne was extended to create a functional and flexible space along with a crafted set of materials selected to withstand the rigours of a young, highly active family. “Functionally, other than the […]
Nest Architects has transformed a Melbourne house that was abandoned for years and became a squat, into a light and airy environmentally sustainable home. “Basically, we tore the house apart to let light and air into rooms that otherwise would have been very dark,” explain the architects. “This created a number of landscaped courtyards and light-wells. […]
The winners of VIVID 2018 were announced at a special awards ceremony last week at the Decor + Design exhibition in Melbourne. Selected from over 90 finalists, this year’s VIVID award winners include Marinos Drakopoulos (Furniture and Object design), Fran White (Concept design), Dean Toepfer (Lighting design and Judges Choice) and Thomas Yeend (Colour and award). ADR […]
David Rockwell and his New York-based Rockwell Group have redesigned the former Helen Hayes Theater, now Hayes Theater, which is the smallest theatre on Broadway with just 597 seats. Rockwell Group collaborated with new owners Second Stage to completely renovate the historic 100-year-old-theatre and bring about a more modern and approachable design that references the […]
Woods Bagot has designed a 20-storey mixed-use development that is made up of specialist apartments for people living with a disability and retirement living apartments. Located along the river bank in Adelaide’s CBD, U City has been designed for Uniting Communities, which works across South Australia through more than 90 community service programs. The building features a function […]
Cumulus Studio has won an architectural design competition to transform Arts Centre Melbourne’s Cento café. The performing arts centre invited small and emerging Victorian architectural design practices to submit an Expression of Interest in April to transform the pop-up eatery into a ‘fresh-faced, contemporary food and beverage outlet’. The jury then selected four design led local practices: Cumulus […]
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has teamed with fellow Danish designer Søren Rose to create a 180-square-foot home that is constructed from 100 percent recyclable materials. Called the A45, the house has been designed for NYC-based tiny home company Klein, which was created by Rose in 2017. BIG’s design is an evolution of the traditional A-frame cabin, known for its […]
The six buildings shortlisted for the 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building have been announced, with student housing, an office building, art gallery, a nursery school, cemetery and lecture theatre making the list The Royal Institute for British Architecture’s Stirling Prize is handed to the architect of the building thought to be the most […]
Despite wanting a two-storey dwelling, the owners of this home in Northcote, Melbourne were still keen to compliment the single level culture of the surrounding area by minimising the visual impact of their new home. The solution by Star Architecture was to use timber screens as a device to soften the solid rendered walls behind and to unify […]
Refined designs of the Apple Global Flagship Store at Fed Square have been released after a series of design workshops involving Fed Square Management, the Victorian Government, Melbourne City Council and Apple. The plans for the store are surrounded by controversy, with thousands of people petitioning against it online after the Victorian government announced plans […]
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