Ebonex Australia by Tom Mark Henry is an exciting and dynamic design for the digital currency exchange company. In a desirable north facing position with views of Sydney harbour, this workplace design challenges the status quo of financial corporate. The design works with the curves of the building where functionality maximises the view, the hero […]
Last month, we announced the IDEA 2022 winners at The Timber Yard in Melbourne. More than 500 architects, designers and design lovers gathered to celebrate the category and overall design award-winners. Today, we take a look at Retail winner Pattern Studio. Led by Josh Cain and Lily Goodwin, Pattern Studio is a Sydney-based interior design […]
A second-generation family home, Villa Italia is a renovation and extension executed brilliantly by Splinter Society to a classic single fronted Victorian terrace located in Brunswick East. Drawing on the clients’ heritage, the redesign is guided by qualities often associated with Italian brands: fine craftsmanship, sophistication, elegance, and a touch of luxury. Led by Asha […]
Spending her childhood in Switzerland surrounded by European antiquities and design-loving parents, Sydney-based interior designer Alex Morrison is inspired by timeless yet poignant spaces. We first met Morrison earlier this year with her work on Autore Moda flagship, a Double Bay retail store that challenged conventional stylistic choices for jewellery shops. Featuring a curvaceous banquette […]
UniSA environmental researchers have called for new national planning policies to mandate the inclusion of trees in developments and housing design.
The March/April issue of inside magazine is on newsstands now and includes all the projects that won IDEA 2021. Robin Boyd had gotten it right in The Australian Ugliness when he said our architectural landscape was a bombardment of confused style and mixed ideas. But if the architect were still alive today, I know he’d […]
Kéré is the first African and first Black architect to win the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize and hopes to “change the paradigm” of design. Born in Gando, Burkina Faso, and now based in Berlin, Keré is the 51st recipient of the prize and has showcased a commitment to social justice and engagement, with intelligent use […]
Walbanga and Wadi Wadi woman and award-winning interior designer Alison Page has been named the IDEA 2021 Gold Medallist. The annual award, now in its 20th year, is given to a practitioner who has “contributed their talent to enriching the design landscape of Australia” and was announced at the IDEA Gala party in Sydney on 24 […]
Futures Collective brings together the work of a range of award-winning designers determined to keep sustainability at the forefront of their practice.
Created for a former opera director who wanted a functional home to shelter her teenage children for years to come, Wheatland Road by Melbourne-based architecture practice Foomann is independently social. Established by Jo Foong and Jamie Sormann in 2008, Foomann is devoted to the “realisation of beautifully simple, sensitive spaces”, and Wheatland Road provides a […]
Australian architecture and design firm Architectus has announced it will enhance its education offering with the promotion of Matthew Todd as principal. Architectus has experienced recent strong growth fuelled by several significant education projects wins, including the $60 million Health and Community Centre of Excellence at Kangan’s Broadmeadows Campus, and the UNSW Health Translation Hub […]