The latest in interiors
BresicWhitney Hunters Hill's offices achieves a crafted and delicate composition of elements: the result of applying a macro-scale strategy to the micro-scale – big ideas in small spaces.
Design, architecture, and real estate firms spend their days creating beautiful homes and workspaces for clients, but what of the spaces they themselves work in? The offices of those in the business of interiors are some of the most inspired and individual, as one would suspect.
Demonstrating the transformative abilities of carefully curated decorative considerations, the design transforms a beachside Victorian terrace into a home befitting a hip couple with young children and a highly contemporary art collection.
In three short years, ACME&CO has made an indelible impression on the local architecture and design industry. Its creative and innovative work has been recognised as design of the highest order, deserving of its many accolades.
Nine hours and a million miles away, Tokyo is an endless resource of inspiration for those redefining the spaces and places we inhabit.
Designer and maker Jon Goulder brings worlds together through his material approach and an inherited legacy. MEZZANINE speaks with JamFactory's current creative director
The best hospitality experiences give patrons a sense of their unique flavour, whether this derives from the food, the location, or another inspiration entirely. Penny Craswell examines the finer points of hospitality design for Mezzanine.
Borne of a passion for furniture design, which Nic Graham quite candidly states will never make him a rich man, the ever-growing collection from this preeminent Australian designer is extraordinary.
Lee Broom is a designer definitely going places. He burst onto the design scene with his own practice some eight years ago and hasn’t stopped making waves since. (inside) speaks with Broom as he sweeps a design path through London and Europe.
In anticipation of the February release of Niche Media's first ever Global Architecture and Design Forecast, we introduce the esteemed co-directors of the trend report, Dr. Paul McGillick and Stephen Todd.
It has been a big year for Tasmania-based Simon Ancher, settling into his new store and studio, exploring the potential of a new resource of salvaged timbers and furthering his range of handcrafted furniture – all while running the furniture department at the University of Tasmania and spending time with his three boys.
(inside) magazine recaps a stellar year for Melbourne-based architecture and design practice JCB Architects, who took out top honours to win both the Designer of the Year and Multi Residential categories at last year's Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).
The latest in architecture
A Trans-Tasman architecture collaboration between Woods Bagot’s Melbourne studio and Auckland’s Peddle Thorp has won an international design competition for a new high-rise hotel and apartment tower for New Zealand’s largest city. Inspired by Auckland’s natural forms, Woods Bagot principal and design leader Peter Miglis says the 50-level tower couldn’t exist anywhere else. “Inspired by New Zealand’s […]
In the second of a series of articles examining typologies offering growth opportunities for architectural practices to explore, Architectural Review looks at the childcare space. With the continued rise in urban development and the increasing expansion of growth corridors in and around large cities such as Melbourne (where the population is sitting at 4.8 million […]
With initial aspirations of being a vet, Whispering Smith founder Kate Fitzgerald was drawn to a career in architecture by the pull of `self-directed, collaborative and exploratory learning’. It may be difficult for people to connect a farm upbringing with a creative pursuit like architecture, but for Kate FitzGerald, founder of Whispering Smith, it was […]
Kengo Kuma and Ryue Nishizawa are among some of the celebrated architects that will deliver keynote speeches at the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas’ (SCCI) inaugural SCCI Architecture Hub. Taking place 12–21 October 2018, the hub is a new platform exploring the best contemporary ideas on architecture and its intersections with culture, society, literature, art and technology. […]
Harley Graham Architects’ Hidden Studio in Byron Bay pays homage to Australia’s architectural heritage. Nestled into rainforest on a eight-hectare (20-acre) property in Coopers Shoot, Byron Bay, Hidden Studio was designed as a guests’ retreat in response to two existing dwellings on the same property: a writer’s cabin and a family home. Both were designed by acclaimed architect […]
Carme Pinós is one of the world’s most celebrated architects. She has been an international fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects since 2012 and her most lauded projects include the cube ii towers in Guadalajara, Mexico. But 27 years ago she was completely alone, trying to recover from a broken marriage and professional […]
Cera Stribley Architects has designed a townhouse development in the Melbourne suburb of Kew, with each of the eight homes inspired by the Tate Modern art gallery. Situated in the Sackville Ward precinct, the new Tate development brings together varying elements of interior and construction artistry from around the world. Domenic Cerantonio of Cera Stribley Architects […]
Reflecting the entrepreneurial design firm’s hands-on approach to achieving best practice, Ewert Leaf secured, designed and moved into its dream office space over the course of four months. Located on the corner of Stead Street and Palmerston Crescent in leafy South Melbourne, the four-storey office enjoys panoramic views of Melbourne’s ever-changing cityscape with abundant natural […]
Western Sydney University’s new Liverpool campus is a 10-storey vertical building designed to deliver the high-quality educational opportunities to one of Sydney’s emerging central business districts. In line with the University’s ‘Western Growth’ initiative, the new campus supports the fastest growing area in the Sydney region by providing opportunities for local enterprise and institutions to […]
Touching on themes of the magical and natural as co-inhabiting the same space and time, the work of Floria Tosca offers a concertinaed kind of evolution. Colour and form are fragmented through shards that shift dimension and break the plane to render perspective ambiguous. Similarly, scale is adjusted to shift focus and decentralise the image. […]
In the heart of Collingwood, one of Melbourne’s quintessential creative hubs, sits a new design institute, LCI Melbourne. The campus forms part of the global education network LCI Education, which is committed to providing high quality, creative education in a collaborative environment with close connections to industry. The new campus was designed by Melbourne-based architecture […]
As the demand for childcare centres in inner-city areas increases, operators are looking to architects to create a point of difference while overcoming space constraints. One example is the recently completed 114-child, high-rise Skyplay North Perth School of Early Learning. The family-owned operator employed the services of Tom Godden Architects and Matthew Crawford Architects who […]
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