The latest in interiors
Billie Murphy is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Below, the Sydney-based senior interior designer from Gray Puksand talks about her penchant for designing joyful and quirky spaces, her experience working on a primary school project in Vienna and her love of scuba diving. Australian Design Review: How would you […]
After sharing his highlights from among Milan Design Week’s apartment tours, Australian Design Review’s marketing coordinator Alvin Wu rounds up his favourite exhibitions from the event. Taking place from 8 to 13 April, Milan Design Week 2025 was a bustling festival of exhibitions, tours, product launches, presentations, workshops and parties, including the return of the […]
Australian workplaces are becoming more sophisticated as boundary-pushing designers innovate to serve the evolving needs of various stakeholders. Commercial interior designer and Carr associate director Catherine Keys shares some of the influences driving change in the sector and her methods for supporting collaboration, focus and flexibility. As many workplaces around the country strive to become […]
Tamara Glick is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Below, Glick confesses to her lifelong admiration for Charlotte Perriand and shares her passion for using design as a vessel for storytelling. Australian Design Review: How would you describe your work? Tamara Glick: My design approach is driven by the desire […]
At the wheel of Swedish automotive manufacturer Polestar’s colour and materials team, Maria Uggla is redefining what car interiors can be – ethical, sustainable and anything but conventional. Design instinct runs deep for Uggla. Her visceral reactions to art and design act as her own inbuilt compass guiding her to true north. “I tell my […]
Designing for early learning is often about soft corners, bright colours and safe thresholds. But what happens when a space must speak to children who experience the world in wildly different ways? At The Sanctuary Early Learning Centre Health and Knowledge Precinct, architecture becomes a quiet collaborator, shaping experience without instruction. Every surface, volume and […]
Fresh off a visit to Milan Design Week, a yearly pilgrimage which attracts nearly half a million design lovers to the Italian city, Australian Design Review’s marketing coordinator Alvin Wu shares his favourite apartment tours from the event. Alongside the official furniture fair, Salone del Mobile, Milan Design Week features several apartment tours where designers […]
Rothelowman has helped Aria Property achieve its most liveable and sustainable residences to date with Trellis, a multi-residential development opposite Musgrave Park in South Brisbane. Just looking at Trellis, named after the trains of plants that climb up and down its facade, it’s no surprise to learn that its developer, Aria, has a vision to […]
Australian floor covering provider Andersens has collaborated with ResiLoop on industry product stewardship to expand their advocacy for green industry practices. ResiLoop is a not-for-profit scheme backed by major suppliers, aimed at decreasing waste by incorporating circular economy principles for floor coverings. Andersens CEO Rowan Hodge says that ResiLoop aligns with his company’s commitment to […]
From humble beginnings as a healing ale to its newest venture as a bold new landmark, South Australia’s brewing icon proves evolution was always on tap. When legendary South Australian brewer Coopers envisioned a guest-centred public destination that bucked tradition, Studio Nine Architects and interiors gurus Studio Gram leaned into the challenge. Eschewing the tired […]
Andrew Glover will judge the 2025 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), joining Jade Whittaker, Melissa Leung, Conrad Lowry and jury chair Paul Hecker. IDEA is Australia’s longest-running independent architecture and interior design awards program with winners selected annually by a panel of expert judges working in the industry. GroupGSA associate director Andrew Glover brings over […]
The Sydney-based contingent of Australian Design Review’s (ADR’s) 30UNDER30 gathered for the first time on Wednesday 26 March – here’s how it went. Kiln was the perfect meeting place for this year’s cohort of interior and product designers. Perched on the 18th floor of Ace Hotel Sydney with views overlooking the popular design destination of […]
The latest in architecture
Australian Design Review (ADR) speaks to people and culture experts in architecture and interior design about industry attitudes towards hybrid work and the strategies that are performing well. Four years since the pandemic upended traditional notions of where work should be done, Australian legislation is catching up. Around two million workers might soon have a […]
Through their innovative approach, Tilt Industrial Design’s work on large-scale community and corporate projects has helped to foster atmospheric inclusivity. Concluding Australian Design Review’s (ADR) focus on designing for functionality in workplaces and education settings this month, we’ll take a look at what makes a space both practical and adaptable in responding to the interior […]
BVN announces a major leadership change, while a Fender Katsalidis partner is appointed to the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) in this month’s round up of appointments in Australian architecture and interior design. BVN announces new co-CEO On 15 February, BVN announced a major change in leadership, welcoming Ali Bounds to the role of […]
As part of ADR’s focus on the return to school and work this month, we looked deeper at Hayball’s award winning Hilltops Young High School Community Library to discover how this leading design practice merges once separate public and school libraries into a holistic community learning hub in the South Western Slopes region of New […]
In an age of urbanisation and technology, landscape architecture practice CONTEXT reveals how we can harness good design to encourage children to spend more time outdoors for free play and hands-on learning. Landscape architect Hamish Dounan, director of Sydney-based studio CONTEXT, is dedicated to working with school communities to design outdoor landscapes with nature at […]
Australian Design Review (ADR) recently revealed the 30UNDER30 Architects and Innovators of the Built World for 2023/2024. To celebrate, we are getting to know this exciting multidisciplinary cohort, the passions that drive their work and what makes them tick creatively. Eilish Barry, a project leader at Hayball, found her passion for architecture through a pivotal […]
On January 11, Sydney had its muggiest day on record, with the hourly dew point reaching a record temperature of 25.9 degrees Celsius and humidity weighing in at 94 percent. But the office workers at architecture practice Smart Design Studio, in the inner-southern Sydney suburb of Alexandria, did not experience a temperature higher than 26 […]
Music at work – it’s a surprisingly divisive subject. Top 40 hits and classical concertos can be too distracting for those who need total silence or a bit of ambient noise to really knuckle down. Meanwhile, some creatives find the audio artistry of others to be good fuel for their own endeavours. Australian Design Review […]
Australian design practice Hayball has delivered two joint-use education projects in New South Wales that create demonstrable value for the communities they serve: Hilltops Young High School Library and Scientia Terrace at Monte Sant’ Angelo College. Well known for its work in the education sector, Hayball’s focus on designing for long-term social value has seen […]
Australian Design Review (ADR) recently revealed the 30UNDER30 Architects and Innovators of the Built World for 2023/2024. To celebrate, we are getting to know this exciting multidisciplinary cohort, the passions that drive their work and what makes them tick creatively. First up is Kaitlin Sells, a Adelaide-based architect at JPE Design Studio. Sells’ design philosophy […]
The Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) has found a kindred spirit in new sponsor ForestOne, an innovative force in the timber and decorative solutions industries. The Australian company will be supporting the Emerging Designer category in 2024. Backed by a 140-year history, forward-thinking mindset and a strong focus on sustainability, ForestOne is the largest independent distributor of […]
“Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture, or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” – Samuel Butler For Gerald Matthews, managing director and senior architect at Adelaide-based architecture practice Matthews Architects, these words from English novelist Samuel Butler could not be more appropriate. As a self-confessed audiophile, Matthews […]
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