The latest in interiors
Cristina Napoleone was among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 cohort in 2024/2025. Below, we get to know how the young founder spearheaded Terrain, an experimental community space in Fitzroy, Melbourne, where ecology, design, technology and culture intersect. Australian Design Review: What is Terrain? Cristina Napoleone: Terrain is an initiative that creates playful physical and digital spaces […]
There’s an old adage that ‘the key to success is sincerity… and if you can fake that you’ve got it made’. Was it Groucho Marx who said it? George Burns? French playwright Jean Giraudoux? The gloriously acerbic character actor Celeste Holm? The notoriously tongue twisted Hollywood producer Samuel (‘Gentlemen, include me out’) Goldwyn? The truth […]
On a cold mid-winter day, Australian Design Review ventured into Rydges Melbourne to experience Spectra, a temporary immersive project by award-winning artists Rowena Martinich and Geoffrey Carran. In the second instalment of our feature series exploring site-specific art and its power to shape place and experience, we discover that when artists are given creative free […]
One of Australia’s most admired and prominent contemporary designers, Ross Gardam‘s practice merges traditional craft with modern know-how. A natural collaborator who believes that designing in a vacuum should be discouraged, he explains why he’s excited to join the panel of esteemed mentors for the 2025/2026 30UNDER30 program. Australian Design Review: Why did you want […]
ABI Interiors is a multiple-award-winning global leader in premium architectural fixtures and fittings, celebrated for shaping Australia’s interior design and renovation landscape. Widely acknowledged for offering the best tapware, ABI Interiors also provides tiles, showers, basins, wastes, bathroom vanities and hardware amongst their comprehensive range of bathroom, kitchen, laundry, and outdoor fixtures. Every piece reflects […]
Noosa-based creative Nicholas Gilbert has accomplished the impressive feat of becoming director of his own interior design practice at just 25. The ambitious designer has long held a passion for visual flair, rooted in his earlier fashion studies. With a bachelor’s degree in interior architecture, combined with a worldview informed by extensive overseas travel, Studio […]
COX Architecture director Brooke Lloyd credits her early-career accomplishments to a willingness to say yes and figure things out later – a lesson she is eager to impart as a mentor to the next cohort of Australian Design Review (ADR)’s 30UNDER30. Australian Design Review (ADR)’s 30UNDER30 program provides mentorship and career development in the architecture […]
Sophie Kebbell is an interior designer from Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30 cohort of 2024/2025, and also a senior interior designer for Melbourne-based design practice Hassell. We speak with the future-focused creative to learn more about their artistic inspirations and how it feels to be among ADR‘s select group of 30UNDER30 members. Australian Design Review: How […]
London-based designer and studio Doshi Levien co-founder Nipa Doshi presents a lively new work A Room of My Own at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Doshi is the fourth female artist to have her work presented in the gallery’s Collection of Contemporary Design and Architecture. Joining Tatiana Bilbao, Bethan Laura Wood and Christien Meinderstma, […]
Australian architectural firm Cox has identified an increasingly common duality facing the workplace design sector, writes director and interior designer Brooke Lloyd. Macquarie Group’s global headquarters by Cox. Photo: Brett Boardman. Workplace design for professional services has always carried symbolic weight. More than places of work, offices are also instruments of reputation, carefully calibrated to […]
The leading designers partnering with Designer Rugs as jurors for the premier rug brand’s Evolve competition say they are excited to see what Australia’s designers will come up with in 2025. The 2025 Evolve jury. Designer Rugs’ senior designer Lia Pielli is on the judging panel, and she explains the history of the prize. “This […]
Adelaide-based Aranda artist Alfred Lowe has taken out the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)’s 2025 Rigg Design Prize for his ambitious ceramic vessels titled ‘You and me, us never part’. Now in its tenth edition, the triennial prize is Australia’s highest national accolade for contemporary design bestowed by an Australian public gallery and seeks to […]
Now in its fourth year, Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 program has established itself as the leading mentorship and career development program in the architecture and design industry. The unique program brings together game changers, industry leaders, practice founders, product manufacturers, suppliers and sponsors to celebrate and empower young architects, and interior and product designers of the future. […]
A highly regarded accolade in contemporary Australian design, the Rigg Design Prize celebrates its landmark 10th anniversary in 2025 with a grand prize of $40,000. Among its decorated assembly of 35 finalists are three of Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 program alumni. Presented at the Ian Potter Centre in Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria, the exhibition […]
One woman and her growing community of protégés are leading a renaissance of architectural glass design in Melbourne. Architectural glass design was an endangered sector in Australia after the turn of the century. Veteran Melbourne-based practitioners Donna Kennedy and Dr Bronwyn Hughes conducted a survey on leadlighters in 2012 that revealed an ageing workforce. “The […]
Flack Studio celebrates a bold and prosperous first decade as a practice with a new coffee table book featuring well-known and as-yet unpublished projects. Out now through Rizzoli, Flack Studio: Interiors captures the meteoric rise of one of Australia’s most-admired interior design studios, which was founded in Melbourne in 2014 by David Flack. Thirteen projects […]
The latest in architecture
Architectus Conrad Gargett has redefined senior living in Brisbane’s inner city with a dual-tower Newstead edifice. The groundbreaking vertical project elevates retirement and aged care living with a strong emphasis on community engagement. The ‘island’ site, which benefits from four street frontages, allows for sweeping views of the river and city from both Rendu Towers […]
Over 184 days, from April 13 to October 13 2025, Yumeshima Osaka will come alive for World Expo 2025. Bringing together more than 150 countries, Expo seeks to open channels of global communication and innovation to address issues facing humankind that transcend geographic borders. A noble and essential goal, Australia’s pavilion will be a sensory […]
Working with Country. Collaborating with Country. Collaborating on Country. Bi-cultural design. Each of these are threads of a conversation within architecture and design, and the wider Australian social and cultural landscape, that have been gaining momentum in recent years. At the forefront of this critical discourse and its practical, real-world application within the built environment […]
Led by creative directors Nick Johnston, Shae Parker McCashen and Jane Cameron Finlay, next year’s ArchiTeam conference ‘Expanding Practice: 100 percent Architecture’ promises invaluable learning and personal development for small-to-medium practice architecture studios. Renowned as a not-for-profit cooperative committed to uplifting the efforts of more than 1000 emerging small-to-medium architecture practices, ArchiTeam is gearing up […]
Hassell promotes eight new principals, DKO elevates 18 of their finest, Carr puts up a pair of promotions, and more in this month’s round up of industry appointments. DKO elevates 18 of their finest Design powerhouse DKO has promoted 18 members of their multidisciplinary team across Australia. Six of them have stepped up to the […]
Architects are increasingly highlighting the importance of light in building design, turning this element into an essential part of their projects. For Steensen Varming, long-time practitioners in engineering services and sustainable designs that enhance spatial perception, this ethos has been a consideration for nearly a century. When done properly, light can play a pivotal role […]
Kalgoorlie’s new city centre revitalisation project reflects the city’s people and history through a unique blend of open space, indigenous arts and stimulating lighting, celebrating the unique heritage of the Goldfields-Esperance region. Designed by ASPECT Studios in collaboration with IPH architects, lighting designers ETC and the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, the city centre is aimed at […]
In the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Collingwood – an eclectic and creative neighbourhood with gritty industrial roots – is a monolithic new building of concrete, glass and metal that interrupts a quiet section of the skyline. Designed by local architecture and interior design studio Carr for developer and client Figurehead, 116 Rokeby is an office […]
The final design for Bradfield City Centre’s Central Park, recently released for exhibition, seeks to honour Country and “set the bar for the new city of Bradfield”, according to ASPECT Studios. The landscape architecture and urban design firm designed the competition-winning scheme in collaboration with architect Collins and Turner, cultural consultant and Baramadagal woman of […]
Fifty years after its original construction, the Captain Cook Memorial and Lighthouse at Point Danger in Tweed Heads has undergone an extensive $6.5 million refurbishment incorporating 360 degree views from a new upper podium and a visitor cafe under wooden waves. As an integral part of the region’s architecture, proudly marking the border between New […]
As the days grow incrementally longer, Australian Design Review (ADR) turns its attention to lighting. We’ve spoken to leading designers and invited them to share their expert insights on topics such as harnessing natural light, crafting thoughtfully orchestrated lighting design schemes, and their favourite lighting products. Gerald Matthews is the managing director and senior architect […]
Billard Leece Partnership (BLP) has been granted the role of Lead Architect for the initial design phase of the Queensland Cancer Centre (QCC), ringing in a new era of cancer care in the Sunshine State. Located on the existing campus of the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital (RBWH) on Turrbal and Yuggera Country, the QCC […]
With The Briscoe by Kinleaf, architects Rothelowman sought to design a build-to-rent multi-residential complex with beautiful amenities, as well as rental and environmental sustainability for its long-term tenants. Australian renters are currently facing all-time high rents and record-low housing vacancy rates. In the thick of a severe housing affordability crisis, property experts have identified the […]
Enchantingly placed within the South Australian landscape, Monarto Safari Park Visitor Centre exemplifies the innovative use of BlueScope steel walling and roofing to create breathtaking architecture. The centre’s design merges the Australian landscape with the essence of Zimbabwe’s Matobo Hills, offering visitors a portal to Africa. Spanning 1500 hectares and home to more than 500 animals, Monarto […]
For the blind and vision impaired, tactile maps afford a different way to experience architecture and design. With human-centred design and technological accessibility now at the forefront of consciousness, tactile maps are three-dimensional objects that replicate an object, building or city to scale, guiding users through a physical journey of scope and perspective. Axolotl has […]
Established in 2014, the award-winning Australian-owned luxury property, hospitality and investment group Aqualand celebrates 10 years at the forefront of property development. Over the past decade, Aqualand has become synonymous with elevated modern living in Sydney. Every one of its developments is designed by some of Australia’s leading architects, and each apartment is an expression […]
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