It has taken the better part of a month to find a time to sit down and talk to Melissa Leung, associate director and head of interior design at Fraser and Partners. This is not to say that she’s inaccessible, or too busy to talk to a writer about her experience as a female leader. […]
East Melbourne is a small, leafy suburb, located on the edge of the CBD. A stone’s throw from the famed MCG, Fitzroy Gardens and some of the best hospitality and dining experiences in the world, this quiet inner-city enclave is also home to cutting-edge hospitals and medical facilities. It’s no surprise then that world-leading fertility […]
Cox Architecture collaborated with art curators The Fin Collection to achieve the perfect balance of business, hospitality and adornment for the Sydney workplace-come-clubhouse of a global strategic advisory firm. “Coffee by day, martinis by night” – it’s a brief that reads more like it’s for a bar than an office. Nonetheless, it was a refrain […]
When the ‘Real Dads of Melbourne’ Jarrad and Michael Duggan-Tierney sat down to design their new kitchen for their picturesque holiday home located on the Mornington Peninsula, environmental considerations were at the top of mind. Using Neolith’s innovative Estatuario sintered stone allowed the family to achieve their primary goal of creating a low-maintenance space that […]
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 […]
“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 […]
In 2023, Australian Design Review (ADR) opened its second annual 30UNDER30 recognition and mentorship program to architects and innovators of the built world. After a rigorous judging process, our final 30 are revealed below. ADR’s 30UNDER30 initiative launched in 2022, welcoming our first stream of talented interior and product designers aged 30 and under. This […]
For a project so outwardly simple, Monash University Pharmacy Pavilion had to achieve many things, which is what first attracted Melbourne-based architecture and interior design studio Splinter Society to the tender nearly five years ago. Located on Monash University’s Parkville campus in Melbourne and visible to passersby on Royal Parade, the Monash University Pharmacy Pavilion […]
Thursday 25 January 2024, on an evening when Melbourne lived up to being the city of four seasons in one day, turning on an unexpected mid-summer deluge, Cosentino opened its second Oceania showroom. Material luxury combined with history Melbourne’s famously changeable weather did little to deter the local design community from attending the opening of […]