The latest in interiors
Corporate and commercial furniture company Zenith has been named the inaugural sponsor of the IDEA Community Services award. Headlining the 2021 program, this new category recognises the positive impact interior design and architecture have had on our community or not-for-profit sectors. IDEA 2021 entries close at midnight AEST on 11 June 2021. Enter now. From […]
Mechanical timber shutters frame views of Lake Monger, while also creating “sensations of secluded privacy” in this Western Australian home from State of Kin. Located in the Perth suburb of Wembley, the 628-square-metre Shutter House was built on a “drastically sloping site” that called for the strategic use of floor levels and the creation of […]
The day you stop being inspired is the day you should stop designing, says Melbourne interior designer Mim Fanning. The design veteran and head of Mim Design sat down with ADR recently to chat about the 20-year anniversary of her studio. “If you’re a designer, you live it, you breathe it. It’s part of your […]
Exploring and embracing diversity can offer unique opportunities to engage with new identities and experiences. ADR speaks to four Melbourne creatives who are doing just that With culturally diverse backgrounds and a unique approach to design and storytelling, they speak to the power and capacity of difference. Esteemed designer Pascale Gomes-McNabb grew up in a […]
Today marks 30 days to go until entries for IDEA 2021 close. Get your entry in before 11 June 2021 for you chance to win in Australia’s oldest independent interior design and architecture award! With exactly a month to go until IDEA 2021 closes, we thought we’d answer a few of your FAQs about this year’s awards. […]
A “monolithic” concrete bar forms the heart of this 24-square-metre cafe from Pierce Widera, completed during Victoria’s second COVID-19 lockdown last year. The tiny Dux Coffee “hole in the wall” in the inner city suburb of Hawthorn is taller than it is wide, with a raked ceiling that measures 6.5 metres at its highest point, […]
IDEA 2020 gold medalist recipient and Sydney interior design doyenne Meryl Hare has been named the sixth judge for IDEA 2021. IDEA is now open for entries until 11 June. Now in its 19th year, the program is one of Australia’s oldest architecture and interior design awards, with winners selected annually by a panel of […]
IDEA 2021 celebrated its 2020 Designer of the Year David Flack with a star-studded evening hosted by Miele at its South Melbourne Experience Centre last week. The event, which was attended by last year’s winning and highly commended Melbourne-based practices, was the official opening of the awards program for 2021. For guests, it was a […]
Beauty can come from “shutting out the noise” and creating in solitude and isolation says Melbourne interior designer Kate Challis. “We live in a hyper-interactive world, which is fabulous, but we don’t always know when to close that off and focus just on what’s at hand,” the designer told ADR recently. “Otherwise we can become […]
IDEA 2021 is now open for standard entries and will include for the first time in its 19-year history, a special award for pro-bono and community-focused projects. As Australia’s oldest independent interior design and architecture award, IDEA celebrates the year’s best projects, and the individuals and studios behind them. Start your entry now for your chance to […]
David Flack has been named the fifth judge for IDEA 2021, joining Chelsea Hing, Brahman Perera, Hassell principal Domino Risch and Adelaide-based Ryan Genesin. Entries for IDEA 2021 are now open. Enter before 2 May to save $90 on your entry. Don’t worry if you can’t finish it by this Sunday. You can log back in and edit your entry as many […]
Georgie Shepherd Interior Design brought a sense of “warmth in winter and cool in summer” to this 1900s Adelaide villa through textured Arbon pavers and whitewashed American oak. Stanley House was a “typical 1900s sandstone villa”, Shepherd tells ADR, with an early ’80s brick extension and a mix of “pokey rooms” with some late ’80s […]
This Sunday 2 May is the last day you can enter IDEA 2021 at the discounted early entry rate, where you can save $90 your entry fees! Now in its 19th year, IDEA is Australia’s oldest independent interior designer and architecture award. Enter before 23:59 AEST on Sunday to make sure you still qualify for the reduced […]
IDEA 2021 has a new sponsor in high-end Australian fixtures company ABI Interiors. The family-owned business will be sponsoring the Residential Multi category. ABI Interiors is dedicated to creating high-end tapware, fixtures and other space transforming accessories. With a focus on innovation, durability and thoughtful design, ABI products are made using world-class technology and processes with up to […]
Melbourne-based interior designer Chelsea Hing has been named the fourth judge for IDEA 2021, joining Brahman Perera, Hassell principal Domino Risch and Adelaide-based Ryan Genesin. Entries for IDEA 2021 are now open. Enter before 2 May to save $90 on your entry. Heading up her eponymous studio since 2007, Hing is one of the foremost residential interior designers in Australia. Celebrated […]
Naumi Hotels’ The Central by Undercurrent Studio features Deborah Moss’s bespoke wallpaper in every room, paying homage to the surrounding natural environment. In the heart of Queenstown, the boutique hotel aims to bring the outside world into the hotel experience. A “surrealistic sanctuary”, the hotel has a “creative cool vibe” that meets a “sense of […]
The latest in architecture
Jackson Clements Burrows inserted “hidden surprise elements” throughout the interior architecture of Divided House – the new Melbourne home of practice director Jon Clements. Clements and his wife Elisa had lived on the same Richmond street for eight years before building the home, which was completed in 2020. The practice says it was this experience […]
Sue Carr has been awarded an Order of Australia in recognition of her service to “interior design, education, and women in business” in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list. The Order of Australia recognises Australians who have displayed outstanding service or exceptional achievement in the community, acting as an opportunity to celebrate professional excellence. The […]
360 Degrees Landscape Architects used succulents and cacti to capture the client’s vision of ‘gesamtkunstwerk’ in the gardens of Sydney’s Phoenix Gallery. Located in the inner-city suburb of Chippendale, the $32 million project was privately commissioned by Judith Neilson and features a gallery designed by John Wardle Architects and a theatre space designed by Durbach […]
Design for design’s sake continues to plague the A&D industry here and overseas, but Killing Matt Woods is working to change that, starting with his own Sydney studio. “How do I get out of bed in the morning?” asks Matt Woods in response to what is possibly my biggest foot-in-mouth moment as a journalist to […]
We all leave things to the last minute, right? Which is why the IDEA 2021 entry deadline has been extended to 25 June. That gives you an extra two weeks to get your entry in! IDEA entries were due to close tomorrow, but we’ve spoken to a lot of architects and interior designers who just […]
Designed by Johannesburg-based practice Counterspace, this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is inspired by places that are “particularly significant to the diasporic and cross-cultural communities” of London. Set to open on 11 June 2021, the temporary pavilion in the city’s Kensington Gardens features “abstracting, superimposing and splicing” elements that vary in “scales of intimacy” and reference the architecture of markets, restaurants, […]
When designing the Cradle Mountain Visitor Centre, Cumulus Studio wanted to create something that felt “carved from a solid rock” as if by a glacier. The new alpine visitor centre in the Central Highlands region of Tasmania won the Alan C Walker Award for Public Architecture at the 2021 Tasmanian Architecture Awards announced over the […]
The entry deadline for the 2021 Roca international jumpthegap design competition has been extended to 6 September. Sponsored by the Spanish sanitary producer in collaboration with the Barcelona Design centre, jumpthegap calls on architects and designers around the globe to produce creative solutions for the bathroom space. The 2021 edition is the first in the […]
Hassell has preserved the Heritage qualities of the Sydney Theatre Company’s Walsh Bay wharf home in its $60 million redevelopment unveiled earlier this year. The timber-lined interiors of the newly renovated The Wharf on the Sydney Harbour highlight the 100-year-old history of the Heritage-listed warehouse, which was first transformed from a wool store into a […]
ARM Architecture has completed its $60.5 million overhaul of the Home of the Arts (HOTA) Gallery, drawing inspiration for its 3D cellular facade from a Voronoi – a network of tessellating five-sided cells that occurs in nature. The Gold Coast gallery is the third phase of a staged masterplan, completed by ARM in 2013 in […]
Global building materials and aggregates company Holcim has just released its new low carbon ECOPact concrete onto the Australian market. Unveiled in April 2021, ECOPact reduces embodied carbon by 30 to 60 per cent, using “upcycled waste by-products” in place of natural resources. Holcim designed the product after pledging to achieve net zero carbon emissions […]
The fifth pulse check survey from the Association of Consulting Architects Australia (ACA) reveals practices are “fairly confident” about how they are rebounding from COVID-19, even finding “unexpected benefits”. The ACA’s first pulse check conducted in mid-March 2020 showed practices were preparing to feel the pain of COVID-19’s impact on economic and work arrangements. Subsequent […]
There is something very zen about Sydney and Byron Bay-based architect and furniture designer Daniel Boddam. Maybe it’s the very fact he leads an envious Australian lifestyle, splitting his time between homes in both places. Or just because many of his furniture designs embody this incredible calm with an organic beauty and inherent softness. His […]
Just because we can’t be touring the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale gelato in hand doesn’t mean we can’t still get our fix from the world’s largest architecture festival… at least virtually. The theme for this year’s exhibition is How will we live together? A touch ironic perhaps, but pertinent all the same according to Biennale […]
Designer, floral artist and ‘no waste’ advocate Joost Bakker’s Future Food System home on the banks of the Yarra River is 25 years in the making. The 87-square-metre home on the edge of Melbourne’s Federation Square is a self-contained world, where incredible design extends beyond aesthetics. For resident chefs Matt Stone and Jo Barrett – […]
EOFY planning – it is a leader’s responsibility to not only exercise their expertise in the running of a practice, but to also identify what areas require expert advice. A common aspect of running an architecture, engineering or design practice in which creative leaders may lack confidence is financial management and preparations for the end of […]
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