When it comes to workspaces for its own staff, the office furniture company practises what it preaches. Operating a successful furniture company requires the intelligence of sales, administration, marketing and finance, as well as the brains behind manufacturing, distribution, logistics and warehousing. Krost’s Mascot Office is its centre for the former team, while the Smithfield […]
Thursday 25 January 2024, on an evening when Melbourne lived up to being the city of four seasons in one day, turning on an unexpected mid-summer deluge, Cosentino opened its second Oceania showroom. Material luxury combined with history Melbourne’s famously changeable weather did little to deter the local design community from attending the opening of […]
Genesin Studio director Ryan Genesin discusses the practice’s win at the 2023 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) in the Hospitality category for Dolly, a modern wine bar in Adelaide. Hospitality is a design category that seems to evolve in more exciting and eye-catching directions each year. Interstate design practice Genesin Studio’s execution of Dolly in […]
Sydney is as renowned for its glorious beaches as it is for its Opera House, so it made sense for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Modern building to feature some sort of homage to the ocean. Deep dive beyond the neoclassical façade and you’ll discover the Gallery Shop, the IDEA 2023 Retail […]
The NGV Winter Masterpieces may be closing on 8 October, but you can look forward to the hotly anticipated opening of Wurrdha Marra on 12 October at The Ian Potter Centre, Federation Square, Melbourne. Wurrdha Marra – translating as ‘many mobs’ in the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung language – aims to go beyond traditional understandings of […]
You are invited to join us for an evening of celebration as we recognise the best in Australian design at the Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2023. Launched by inside magazine in 2003, the IDEA program celebrates the best of Australian interior and product design across a range of different categories and special awards. The […]
The hotly anticipated Sydney Design Week, supported by principal partner Holdmark property group, will run from 15 to 24 September across the city. This year’s Sydney Design Week, tilted “Amodern” in honour of the recently deceased French philosopher Bruno Latour, will play host to more than 60 events in the form of tours, workshops and […]
The multi-disciplinary design practice’s recent appointments demonstrate a dedication to remaining innovative and adaptive when responding to the challenges and rewards of the design community. SJB is proud to boast a rich and diverse practice history – dating back to 1974 with the establishment of its Melbourne studio under the leadership of three founding directors. […]
When you can’t travel to Europe, the next best thing is a dining destination, which is exactly what has been achieved at Luchetti Krelle designed Louis Dining in both its design and culinary creations. Award-winning Sydney-based architecture and interior design firm Luchetti Krelle designed the new flagship restaurant Louis Dining, for Canberra’s five-star Hotel Realm, […]
The global design practice’s newly appointed managing director Liz Westgarth has launched an industry-first parental leave policy. Continuing to demonstrate her commitment towards contributing to gender equity in architecture and design, Westgarth is intending for Hassell’s new progressive parental leave policy to enable parents to ascertain a work life balance. The policy came into effect […]
Leading Australian design practice Hayball is celebrating its 40th year and launching Australia’s first initiative to measure the social value of its projects across all sectors. Partnering with the Australian Social Value Bank (ASVB), the initiative aims to conceptualise an industry-first measurement framework which will evaluate the impact of design on people and communities, calculated […]
On this year’s RUOK Day, SJB architecture graduate Leanne Haidar reflects on takeaways from recent training in first responders to mental health and her telling research on the wellbeing of architects and students of architecture. SJB is not only an Australian Design Review 30UNDER30 practice partner, yet a proud advocate for supporting the mental health […]