The latest in interiors
"We’re facing a crisis. I call it ‘ecofatigue’. Many architects and designers feel sustainability is a bit of a fad, or a style. Almost constraining enough to rebel against." Steele Associates architect and founder, Oliver Steele, discusses the challenges and rewards of innovating sustainable home design.
MEZZANINE magazine takes a journey through the personal work of a select group of Australia’s leading interior and architecture photographers, to discover the works they create for the walls they inspire.
Expanding the Bond University's Gold Coast offering, the Abedian School of Architecture sits within the faculty of architecture and sustainable design, as co-editor of inside magazine Gillian Seriser finds, while Cook Robotham Architecture Bureau's (CRAB Studio) design works splendidly with Arata Isozaki's campus design of the '80s.
“Public art can bring back intimacy”, says artist Elliat Rich. A look at recent and upcoming projects across the country yields myriad works that interact with the environment and the public in subtle and multi-stranded ways, facilitating a creative connect between people and their surrounds.
"The perception of luxury has largely shifted, particularly in the Australian context." Carr Design Group's Rosie Morley discusses the contemporary shift in hotel design, and their current hotel project in Mornington Peninsula.
In line with the resurfacing of timber and other natural materials in interior and furniture design, leather is on its way back and not always as you would expect. Stephen Todd looks at the ways the material is being used in product and interior design for MEZZANINE magazine.
"In my opinion, Hay seems always to be creating a buzz, and this year at Milan was no different." Following his trip to Salone del Mobile, Canberra-based furniture designer Chris Hardy gives his insight on the stand-out exhibitions and highlights this year.
With open-plan living on the way out and our homes becoming hubs for multifunctional inter-generations, MEZZANINE magazine explores how the facilitation of privacy and social interaction inspires the decisions architects and designers make when forming the spaces we inhabit.
"I feel that we are in a very conservative cycle of design," says Trent Jansen. The acclaimed designer touched down in Milan as part of the exhibition New Craft, with his Briggs Family Tea Service design on display as part of XX1 Triennale International.
Manuelle Gautrand is a French architect who creates buildings and interiors that push the boundaries of style and innovation. Inside magazine chats to Gautrand about the highlights of her 25-year career, throughout which she has created countless projects that embrace people and places.
St.George’s Barangaroo branch has been awarded a 6 Star Green Star – Interiors rating, becoming the first bank branch and the first retail fit-out in Australia to achieve the impressive rating.
Spending three days exploring the depths of north-western Tasmania with Nathan Day, Western Australia’s first formally accredited furniture-maker, is as much an education in timber as it is an eye-opening experience.
The latest in architecture
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 […]
Working in conjunction with architects and interior designers Workroom, Developer Bear Agushi has created a stunning home for his family in the charming Melbourne suburb of Armadale. The house unfolds dramatically from the street; an imposing 3-storey box cantilevered over glass rooms and embedded in sunken gardens. It’s an exotic experience to enter the home […]
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