Drawing on their diverse experience in building workplace culture, Gavin Harris (senior associate and design director at futurespace), Bradford Gorman (director of Gorman/Birrell), and Keti Malkoski (principle of people and consulting at Schiavello) give their insights on the many factors shaping our offices, the increasing integration of work and life, and how this will affect us in years to come.
"Kitchens have always been somewhere hidden and dirty, not somewhere you would be invited, but there is a real change going on there," says Adele Winteridge, founder of Melbourne’s Foolscap Studio – a practice on the tip of international tongues when it comes to clever hospitality design. Winteridge speaks to Sandra Tan for MEZZANINE.
"There are places where you go and you know that the owner gave this place a piece of him or herself." Anka Boychev is a photographer who has been working on Google Virtual Tours for two years – taking photographs which are then stitched together to create a virtual tour of a store, hotel, bar, or showroom, displaying interiors in a new dimension.
The latest residential project from Emma Mitchell Architects is a masterful design of detail and materiality. The house, located in Anglesea on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, is a perfect interpretation of the personality and lifestyle of those who live there, as inside finds out.
Photos show how extensively Mayor Bloomberg updated New York City's built environment.
Designed by some of the most talented design experts in the world, the new flagship suites are located in hotels across London, Paris, Oslo, Khao Lak and Kappl.
The Dragonfly project at Broken Head, south of Byron Bay, involves the addition of a bedroom/studio space with an en suite sauna, patio, deck and outdoor shower to an existing holiday home. Architect: Built-Environment Practice Text: Michael Parsons
AR is launching a new video series – to run in conjunction with our recurring Under Construction section in the magazine – looking at buildings in the construction phase.
Rethinking modernity and tradition has brought about positive and creative changes in the architectural style and urban form of Hefei, writes Guo Xiao Wei.
'Coast Modern' is an accessible, carefully curated overview of important Modernist homes located along the northwest coastline of North America, writes Melonie Bayl-Smith.
The conversion of the old boatsheds at Lavender Bay in Sydney demonstrates Stephen Collier’s meticulously conscious approach.
Are today’s designers really integrating environmental considerations throughout their work, and to what extent are clients’ attitudes towards sustainable design shifting? Elana Castle talks to a number of designers about the long-term environmental impact of their work.