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Australian band Parkway Drive are set to embark on a monumental tour celebrating 20 years of influence on the modern metalcore scene. This comprehensive tour will enliven major arenas across Australia, representing the band’s most ambitious headline venture to date and featuring groundbreaking production with a post-apocalyptic set. Under the leadership of show designer Sam […]
Craft Victoria has announced internationally renowned Australian decorator Simone Haag will guest curate its final main gallery exhibition for 2024. Fables & Folklore, opening this November at Craft’s Melbourne CBD gallery, will unite more than 30 Australian artists in a celebration of storytelling through craft and design. For her curatorial debut, Haag will present a […]
Louise Liu founded her eponymous Sydney-based studio, Studio Liu, shortly after returning from overseas. With more than 15 years of experience working for and collaborating with prestigious Australian and Hong Kong-based designers, Liu’s international perspective is reflected in her work. Each project becomes an ode to the unique stories and symbiotic relationship between client and […]
Industry leaders and design enthusiasts convened at Krost’s Melbourne showroom for a lively panel discussion titled ‘Expanding and Contracting: The Responsive, Adaptable Office’. The event explored the evolving benefits of adaptable office spaces, offering valuable insights into how flexible designs can meet the changing needs of modern workplaces. The 50-plus attendees shook their brollies and, […]
Attention architects and designers in Australia and New Zealand! MillerKnoll invites you to take part in the ‘Your Voice in Design’ survey, a unique opportunity to share your insights and influence the future of design. In just eight minutes, you can provide valuable feedback on the visibility of key design brands, your specification preferences and […]
Camilla McMahon is the founder and director of Melbourne practice Camilla McMahon Interior Design. McMahon has carved out a niche specialising in the design of high-end residences and boutique commercial spaces. Through McMahon’s expert curation, classic pieces effortlessly blend with the contemporary, creating a harmonious balance of old and new. For our ongoing Designer Selects […]
Award-winning Melbourne-based interior designer Danielle Brustman certainly doesn’t suffer from chromophobia. Known for her innovative, boundary-pushing residential and commercial interiors, immersive art installations and exquisitely considered functional objects, including floor lights and cabinets, Brustman’s creative energy is almost limitless. In an exclusive Q&A with Australian Design Review, Brustman shares insights about her love of colour […]
Designer Rugs, a world-leading Australian rug company, has been named sponsor of the Colour category at the 2024 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). Designer Rugs’ bold creative spirit is the perfect match for one of the most exciting categories within IDEA, which is awarded to the project the jury believes demonstrates the most outstanding use […]
Furniture and lighting destination Estilo, a distinguished name in Adelaide’s premium furniture market, proudly announces its transition to a MillerKnoll authorised dealer. This evolution marks a significant milestone in Estilo’s journey, enhancing the brand’s ability to offer a broader range of innovative and iconic design solutions to its customers. In celebration of this transition, Estilo […]
Sydney-based interior design firm Like Minds is all about crafting spaces that feel cohesive and welcoming. This approach has seen the studio shortlisted in the Hospitality category of this year’s Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) for Longshore, an eclectic restaurant in Chippendale, New South Wales that seeks to recreate the thoughtful details of a beach […]
Citrine is a new Melbourne-made collection of decorative hardware fixtures inspired by the peel of a lime. The new range from interior direction practice KB-ID Studio is a collaboration that uses the unique cast bronze craft of local artist Warwick Perrin. Inspired by organic textures, Perrin’s work combines digital manipulation and additive manufacturing to create […]
On Friday 6 September 2024, Living Edge hosted a timely panel discussion at its Sydney showroom, where industry leaders from MillerKnoll, Muuto and Living Edge convened to discuss key transformations driving the furniture and design industries. The event, titled ‘PIVOT – A Conversation About Leading Change’, brought together three renowned figures: MillerKnoll president of international […]
Melbourne-based interior designer Nikki Hogan established her interior styling studio in 2016. Known for her timeless, achromatic style that fuses graphic and unique pieces with a versatile base design, Hogan believes that good designers and stylists should respond to their clients’ tastes while guiding them on a journey to uncover their true essential style. With […]
As a farmer’s daughter with a profound affection for Australia, internationally award-winning rug designer Jenny Jones unearthed her zeal for rug making while living in Turkey in 1995. This marked the start of a decades-long journey curating distinctive storytelling pieces for Australia and the world. Today, she is a pioneering Australian designer, pushing the boundaries […]
Now in its third 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 the young interior and product designers of the […]
Sydney might have turned on the rain, but that didn’t dampen spirits at the launch of this year’s 30UNDER30 program. Hosted by one of the gold sponsors Interface at their deluxe Surry Hills home, the ‘Designing for Interconnection’ event featured an engaging presentation by Jenny Li from WGSN about future design trends and a Q&A […]
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HDR, a world leading architecture, design, engineering, environmental and construction business, has embraced the 30UNDER30 program and become a ‘Practice Partner’ for the next stream.
Brothers Jack and Mark Fearon specialise in transforming bespoke and functional aluminium furniture into sculptures. Burleigh Heads-based brothers Jack and Mark are the brains behind FEARON, a design and fabrication company founded in 2019 with a focus on developing functional aluminium objects into ‘furniture art.’ FEARON’s fusion of visually pleasing art with practical design exemplifies […]
Landscape architect and urban designer Ben Newell says the key in ensuring the city’s 2032 Olympics are the world’s first climate-positive games is to utilise urban designers. Urban designers and landscape architects are tasked with shaping the public spaces and buildings in our cities. Newell, based at Arcadia’s Brisbane firm, believes professionals in these design […]
Buchan is heading into the month with three new appointments that add to the firm’s design and delivery excellence. Lynn Van Dievoort, who will be based in the Brisbane office, has been appointed a senior associate at Buchan. Dievoort holds qualifications in urbanism and spatial design, and is known for employing a strategic focus in […]
The integrated design practice launched stage two of the $54 million Galungara Public School upgrade three years ahead of schedule to cater to the sharp population growth in Sydney’s north west. Galungara primary school is located in the Blacktown Local Government Area of Schofields, bordering Alex Avenue. Both suburbs are considered part of the New […]
Willoughby-based firm Bijl Architecture recently completed Surgo House, a family home in Mosman on Sydney’s North Shore guided by a sustainable policy of up-cycling existing spaces. The team at Bijl embraced the client’s brief of creating a functional family home – rather than a lavish palace – by creating open plan spaces, improving light functionality, […]
The architecture and design firm has appointed four acclaimed principals and two health leaders across both its Melbourne and Perth studios Industry health sector specialists Bruce Crook and Mark Saunders are the new health principals of the Melbourne studio. Crook brings to the team a rich understanding of contemporary healthcare environments. He worked on the […]
John McAlsan + Partners (JMP) is reining in the fifth birthday of their Sydney studio by continuing their benchmark of transforming the old into the new The Sydney office was born in April 2018 out of a collaboration with Woods Bagot to design the new Sydney Central Metro station for Lang O’Rourke. Sydney local Tony […]
Sustainability Victoria is calling on architects and designers to showcase their sustainability success stories by entering this year’s Premier’s Sustainability Awards. The influential awards program has been celebrating sustainability for 21 years, unearthing remarkable advancements and achievements along the way. At last year’s awards, packaging made from mushroom mycelium and the revegetation of […]
Cohen Leigh has recently completed Rix Road, an early learning centre whose design language allows architecture to generate childhood exploration and experimentation Cohen Leigh was established in 1987, and since then has developed a preference for taking on educational and civic projects with gusto. Over the past 10 years, the firm narrowed its attention towards […]
In April of last year, Collingwood-based architecture firm Chan Architecture developed McCrae Bush House, a residential property on the Mornington Peninsula that blends into the surrounding bushlands. McCrae Bush house boasts many unique features – a house angling in both plan and elevation and a steep gully at the entrance of the property. Yet the […]
Located in a Heritage precinct in South Hobart, Tasmania, Wentworth by local design studio Studio Ilk is a family home that delineates itself proudly between old and new. Led by the founding director and principal Kate Symons, Studio Ilk is an architecture and design practice based in South Hobart. Symons is passionate about the preservation […]
One Design Office founding director Samson Tiew was inspired to create a home in Two Fold house that catered towards the chaos and craziness of family life while also reflecting his roots as a designer. When developing his three-bedroom home in Richmond for himself, his wife – Beatrice Tiew – and their three children, Samson […]
In partnership with V-Leader, Wood Marsh has recently completed No.6 Sydney Street, a multi-residential collection of 15 residences in Prahran that feed off the surrounding Orrong Romanis Reserve. No.6 Sydney Street is the result of carving out an urban block and unpacking the walled streetscape created by the surrounding rectilinear buildings. The team building’s monochromatic visual […]
‘Ways of Working – Strength in small practice’ is the fourth biennial ArchiTeam conference, which will be held virtually and face-to-face on Friday 12 May 2023. Held at Melbourne Museum and online (Bettercast), the 2023 ArchiTeam Conference is an action-packed hybrid event that will explore the strength of small practice. Investigating the critical role that small […]
The Fitzroy-based firm has created a modern family home in response to a series of unconventional site conditions caused by the division of a heritage estate in Ivanhoe. Tear Away is a double-storey masonry house connected by a parting wall to the original adjoining home. The team implemented a vertical rupture through an unfinished brick […]
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