The latest in interiors
inside Interior Design Review has revealed the winners of its prestigious 2016 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) at an event in Sydney on Friday 18 November. Now in its 14th year, IDEA showcases the best of Australian interior and product design, as well as the designers behind the work.
With the IDEA Gala Party just days away, ADR speaks to inside co-editor Jan Henderson about the judging process and how the night is a perfect opportunity to celebrate the year with friends, colleagues and peers.
A new cafe by Biasol, situated in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, uses an experimental approach to create a sleek space with bold colours.
In making this project, we were as much thinking about its suburban landscape as the building itself. We aimed to create the early beginnings of a meadow and a field that stitch into the suburban terrain and to make a building that belongs.
A muted palette of golden hues and dusky pinks; rough-hewn, exposed concrete columns paired with polished concrete floors. Blackwood Pantry by Luchetti Krelle draws inspiration from the beachy surrounds of Cronulla and the dramatic contrast of a sunset over the bay, and it is shortlisted in the Hospitality Category for IDEA 2016.
Through a collaborative design process, Gray Puksand has designed a new showroom, office space and warehouse for Shaw Contract Australia.
The Doctor's Studio is shortlisted in the Workplace Under 1000sqm Category for 2016 IDEA Awards. Rather than going down the traditional ‘clinical’ route for this small medical facility, Russell & George has created a space that is colourfully reviving while still being relaxed.
"Our client's determined vision drove the concept of the eyrie in a walled garden." Kennedy Nolan has revitalised a warehouse in Carlton, using its patchwork of industrial heritage to create a new home.
Two recent productions by the Melbourne Theatre Company, Skylight and Double Indemnity, had set designs that were enhanced by the words of the writers and the performances of the actors, as inside co-editor Jan Henderson discovers.
Credited with breathing fresh life into the Missoni brand, Wanda Jelmini, niece to Missoni founders Rosita and Ottavio Missoni, talks to inside co-editor Gillian Serisier about brand longevity, perpetual reinvention and that certain something that makes Missoni a perennial design favourite.
TANDEM Design Studio have taken 15m of woven rope to create an undulating shopfront for the Yellow Earth flagship store in Melbourne. A project that has been shortlisted in the retail category for IDEA 2016.
Kerstin Thompson Architects Cellar Door extension at the TarraWarra Estate is a shortlisted project in the 2016 IDEA Hospitality category.
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The Interior design Excellence Awards (IDEA), Australia’s largest and most successful independent design awards program, launched its 17th iteration last evening at an event in South Melbourne. Launched by inside magazine in 2003, IDEA celebrates the best of Australian interior and product design across 14 categories and five Special Awards. “Each year the design bar is raised higher than […]
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Having designed the original playground 25 years ago, Gardiner Architects has designed the new Eltham North Playground after it burned down in 2017. The playground is part of a community recreational precinct and is an iconic landmark for the area. More than just playground, it is a community meeting place that caters for an age […]
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HASSELL has announced Jared Thorp, graduate of the Queensland University of Technology’s Bachelor of Design (Landscape Architecture), as the winner of the 2019 HASSELL Travelling Scholarship – Robin Edmond Award. Thorp was selected following interviews with 19 students, nominated by seven participating universities around Australia. His presented project, titled ‘ZOOSubverted’, challenges the traditional design of zoological […]
Woods Bagot has won an architectural competition to design a luxury hotel in Sydney, which the firm says is the “first luxury city hotel in 20 years”. Woods Bagot’s winning design for the hotel and office tower at 4-6 Bligh Street in central Sydney proposes “an extraordinary urban experience from street level to crown”. Competition […]
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has received this year’s Pritzker Prize, widely considered to be the profession’s highest honour. The 2019 jury says: “Possessing a profound knowledge of architectural history and theory, and embracing the avant-garde, he never merely replicated the status quo, but his search for meaningful architecture was reflected in his buildings that to […]
The Australian Trellis Door Company (ATDC) recently completed a project for the members’ bar at the prestigious Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) at Sydney’s Rushcutters Bay. The project required the installation of bar closure doors along a curved bar counter top. The CYCA is one of Australia‘s leading yacht clubs and is widely reputed […]
Geoff Hanmer, adjunct lecturer in Architecture, UNSW, weighs in on the landmark Lacrosse fire ruling, which could have industry-wide ramifications. On the last day of summer for 2019, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) delivered a burst of sunshine to apartment owners at the high-rise Lacrosse building in the Melbourne Docklands precinct. Lacrosse suffered […]
Christopher Elliot Design has breathed new life into this Heritage school building where only minor structural changes were allowed. St Michael’s Grammar School had a problem. It had an ageing facility, Marlton House, and a group of youthful, vibrant students who used the rooms of the building as their classrooms. To create a space more […]
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