Acknowledging architectural and social history to imbue a classic Santa Monica Queen Anne with the nous of high art takes the multidisciplinary skill of California-based practice Rios Clementi Hale Studios.
Smart Design Studio’s ability to infuse a one-time nightspot with light-filled daytime aspirations reveals a particular elegance of touch.
The exhibition comprises current and past works by Matsys Design founder, Andrew Kudless, now on display in the Forum at the Abedian School of Architecture.
Within a reduced material palette, Beatrix Rowe pursues a masculine interior of strength and warmth with just a little quirk. Gillian Serisier reviews the detailed interiors at Canterbury House.
Just as Yo-Chi’s delicious yoghurts and smoothies are trialled, tested and of the highest quality ingredients, the design of the Yarraville store is precise to the smallest detail.
At seven years, with seven staff, Arent&Pyke is the face of a new generation of interior design practice. Gillian Serisier interviews the dynamic partnership bringing their unique flair to Australian interiors.
Melding ambience, entertainment and function, Mint Lighting Design and ENTTEC installed a staggering 2140 individual products in a lighting project that boasts over 40,000 pixels.
Proclaimed as “the presiding grande dame of West Coast interior design” by The New Yorker in 2009, Wearstler speaks to (inside) co-editor, Gillian Serisier.
(inside) Interior Design Review's 12th annual Interior Design Excellence Awards honoured a diverse group of luminary Australian design professionals, each with a brilliantly distinct style and approach.
With the Interior Design Excellence Awards presentation and Gala party this Friday 21 November, ADR presents a complete shortlist of nominated entries.
How do educators design the collaborative studio environment to suit 21st century practice? A topical article by Dr Nicki Wragg, senior lecturer in design at Swinburne University of Technology.
A creative approach to material choice can bring the aesthetics, form and sustainability of a house to life in amazing ways, write Polly Bastow and Tony Stuart of Form Architecture Furniture. When designing and constructing your house it pays to think deeply about the actual building fabric. What are you going to make the building […]
Homebuyers will soon be able to experience walking around their new property before it’s even been built thanks to a new virtual reality experience. Residential land developer Villawood Properties has created the world’s first virtual reality (VR) display village, replicating its vision for its Rathdowne community in Melbourne’s Wollert suburb. Using an Oculus Rift headset […]
Residents within Melbourne’s South Yarra will soon have access to an open-air public workspace and a three-level co-working space, as Yarra One apartments announces a first-of-its-kind, residential co-working space within Australia. Designed by Fender Katsalidis Architects the open-air public workspace will be located on level one and will be equipped with laptop and phone charging […]
There’s a well-kept secret in this lakeside Canadian home. Nestled deep within the heart of the house is a long indoor pool, accessed by crossing a Paleolithic mosaic that adorns the walls of the shower. L’Accostée House is located in the Adstock area of Québec, on the shores of Lac St-François. The clients have lived on […]
A group of eight Hong Kong-based emerging designers are visiting Melbourne during Design Week to showcase their work as part of the Hong Kong Design Centre’s (HKDC), Business of Design Week (BODW) initiative at the NGV. ADR caught up with the Chairman of HKDC, Professor Eric Yim, to find out his aims for the pilot program […]
How to beautifully frame its million-dollar views while also providing a secure lock up was the challenge confronting Ferrari when it set up a showroom at Sydney’s Star City Casino recently. The solution came in the form of The Australian Trellis Door Company’s (ATDC) high-end folding doors. The brief ATDC received was to protect the […]
Located in Flinders on the Mornington Peninsula, the Eastwell House is one of the oldest homes in the seaside town, which has been sympathetically extended through strikingly sculptural contemporary design. The client’s brief to Technē Architecture and Interior Design was to create a relaxed beach house for a growing family and one that could accommodate […]
The existing campus at Parade College, Bundoora is a robust brown brick modernist design, but a new learning hub eschews the established context. The Nash Learning Centre is located at the forefront of the school and with its clean, white built form is a deliberate point of difference from the college’s 1960’s chocolate brick. The […]
Located in the foothills of Lecco, Italy near the shores of Lake Como, this subtle yet contemporary architectural restoration reinterprets the character of local 1970’s residential buildings. The building landscape in the area is clearly marked by 1970s residential construction methodologies and architect Francesca Perani, working with Bloomscape Architecture, wanted to restore and remodel the […]
As part of a regular series, AR asks a panel of industry experts their response to the following question: Architecture has long been a male dominated industry. Why do you think this is and is it changing? Kerstin Thompson, principal Kerstin Thompson Architects Rather than answer this question I’d prefer to pose a related, but slightly […]
American architect and Pritzker laureate Richard Meier is to take a leave of absence after five women have come forward accusing him of sexual harassment. In a statement on the Richard Meier & Partners website, Meier said that he was “deeply troubled and embarrassed” by the claims and announced that he would be taking six […]
Coffs Harbour City Council is calling on the local community to give feedback on three separate designs for its new Cultural and Civic Space, which have been devised by Designinc and Lacoste + Stevenson, FJMT and Dominic Finlay Jones Architects. The new complex will be built on the site of 23-31 Gordon Street and will include […]
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