The latest in interiors
For this lookbook, ADR has rounded up 10 home interiors from all over the country with kitchens you can’t look away from. Whether it’s checkerboard terrazzo flooring or floor-to-ceiling windows, this selection from our archive, which is filled to the brim with almost two decades’ worth of projects, shows how the humble kitchen can steal the show. Garden […]
There are just two weeks left to save $90 on entry fees for IDEA 2021. Enter your project now to save. Now in its 19th year, IDEA is Australia’s oldest independent interior design and architecture award. Entries are open until 11 June, but early entries ends on 2 May. Enter your project now so you […]
Melbourne-based interior designer Brahman Perera has been named the third judge for IDEA 2021, joining 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. Known to most as Brem, Perera is the youngest member of this year’s panel and […]
Shou Sugi Ban and tactile materials dominate this restaurant designed by Pattern Studio to “lure” Melburnians out of the city and into the airport suburb of Tullamarine. Three Blue Ducks is by the hospitality group of the same name, which opened its first eatery in Sydney’s beachside suburb of Bronte a decade ago. The Tullamarine restaurant […]
Zenith Perth’s new showroom, designed with TRCB Architects and Milieu Creative, performs a delicate balancing act: reintroducing the idiosyncrasies of the 1906 building to complement the cutting edge constellations of Zenith’s workplace furniture. There’s a precedent for Zenith Perth finding its home in the walls of a Heritage build. The previous Western Australian base for […]
Responding to Polly Harbison’s architecture, the creative team of Arent&Pyke –Juliette Arent, Sarah-Jane Pyke and Genevieve Hromas – has designed an interior that is harmonious, enhancing and entirely considered. Ostensibly an addition to a Federation brick and sandstone home, Harbison’s architecture uses details to make congruous the shift from old to new, while apertures and […]
The Australian public, and designers in particular, shouldn’t be afraid of being political, says IDEA 2020 Designer of the Year David Flack. “Within our current world, politics has become a dirty word, but it’s not. It’s actually the place all design starts from,” says Flack. “There is a fear within a lot of Australians, but […]
The Adelaide-based director of Genesin Studio has been announced as the second IDEA judge for 2021. Early bird entries for IDEA 2021 are now open. Genesin will be joined on this year’s panel of industry experts by Hassell principal and workplace designer Domino Risch, along with five other judges, which we’ll be announcing soon. An […]
Agents of Architecture has designed a Melbourne restaurant “steeped in the richness of Gippsland, it’s farmers and producers”. Following a few COVID-19 delays, Farmer’s Daughters opened recently within the multi-million dollar 80 Collins Street development, and is headed by Alejandro Saravia of Pastuso’s fame. Four years in the making, the restaurant’s menu is the Peruvian chef’s […]
Each new project by Melbourne-based interior designer Chelsea Hing is a surprise and a delight. She speaks to ADR about her design approach and life post-COVID. Chelsea Hing views her projects as an expression of her life philosophy, rather than being guided by a design philosophy or aesthetic that is recognisable across her body of […]
The Sydney design director takes us inside his reconfigured terrace home in Glebe, which references Moroccan riads and the pleasures of a central garden. From 19th century Italianate terrace to interwar boarding house, Agius’ Courtyard House acknowledges its eventful, but not always glamorous, history by carefully retaining all elements of the original 1885 structure. In […]
Heritage and the chef’s homeland are at the heart of Adelaide’s eatery iTL, brought to life by Genesin Studio and Walter Brooke as an ode to all things Italian modernism. Creating something from nothing is hard. Creating something that feels established from nothing is even harder. When Genesin Studio teamed up with Walter Brooke to […]
The designers behind the IDEA 2020 overall project winner and Residential Single award winner open up about their design process, their creative vulnerabilities and their future as one of Australia’s best loved studios. Kirsten Stanisich and Jonathan Richards made names for themselves as the directors of SJB’s Sydney interior design department. In 2018, they left […]
Zenith’s Lois Collection deepens the precision and fluidity that designer Keith Melbourne established with his 2010 Ellis Collection. “I saw the opportunity to revisit the Ellis collection and evolve it to suit the current market,” says Keith Melbourne of his latest collaboration with Zenith. The evolution and elevation from Ellis to Lois is found in […]
Designer, floral artist and ‘no waste’ advocate Joost Bakker’s latest greenhouse in Melbourne’s Federation Square is 25 years in the making. The 87-square-metre Future Food System home on the banks of the Yarra River embraces a zero-waste approach to living and is the fifth iteration of Bakker’s Greenhouse project. Residents, chefs Matt Stone and Jo […]
GOLDEN has ditched the traditional workplace model of offices, meeting rooms, boardrooms and workstations to design an open and modern fit-out conducive for activity-based working. Created for the Australian Financial Services Licensed contributory mortgage investment manager RBML, the new office is located in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Dandenong. Located in the city centre, above […]
The latest in architecture
All architecture in Australia should be an act of co-creation with Indigenous Australians and Indigenous design principles, says interior designer and Walbanga and Wadi Wadi woman Alison Page. In her new book, Design: Building on Country, cowritten with Paul Memmott, Page outlines how all buildings, no matter their use, should be an extension of Country. […]
Wood Marsh drew from the “corrosive nature” of the Victorian coastline to inform the “sculptural geometry” and material selection of its RACV Cape Schanck Resort. Located in a “natural saddle” adjacent to the Bass Strait, the 120-room hotel, day spa and golf course/club was “carefully positioned” in the coastal landscape. “The soft, rolling dune-like quality […]
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 […]
Anna Giannis, a Melbourne based textiles and interior designer, uses her eclectic style to design high-end residential spaces in the eastern suburbs. As a child, Giannis had an eye for interior design, constantly rearranging things and moving ornaments around when doing the dusting. At 28, after five years in a marketing role, Giannis decided to […]
CplusC Architectural Workshop was influenced by the Japanese concept of shakkei (borrowed scenery) for this Sydney home, “bridging the relationship” between exterior and interior. “Three decades ago, Studio Ghibli’s animated fantasy My Neighbor Totoro taught us about the importance of relationships with family, friends and nature,” explains the Sydney practice. “Similarly, the concept of Totoro […]
For this week’s lookbook, we’ve rounded up 10 of the best restaurants and café interiors in Australia with exciting and bold colours that you don’t want to miss. The Bathers’ Pavilion, Sydney, Luchetti Krelle The iconic Bathers’ Pavilion in Sydney has been redesigned by Luchetti Krelle to embrace a 1920’s Spanish mission style. Combining a […]
A pink pond “evocative of Australia’s inland salt lakes” from Taylor Knights has won the 2021 NGV Architecture Commission. Working in collaboration with Melbourne artist and RMIT lecturer James Carey, Taylor Knights’s pond[er] will be installed in the Grollo Equiset Garden at the NGV International from November 2021. The installation will feature a body of […]
A “rainbow” of custom glazed bricks on the facade of the Springvale Community Hub were designed by Lyons to reflect the cultural flags of Australia’s most diverse area. Completed in 2020, the hub consolidates the Springvale Library, Springvale Historical Society and the Council Customer Service into one 3800-square metre space in Melbourne’s outer south east. […]
Fender Katsalidis has completed its 319-metre tall Australia 108 residential tower, cantilevering a gold ‘Starburst’ two-thirds up the building. Melbourne’s tallest tower and the Southern Hemisphere’s tallest residential tower, Australia 108 is located in Southbank and stretches up 100 levels. The gold ‘Starburst’ occupies two of those levels and protrudes six metres outward from the […]
The 2021 Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) Gold Medal has been awarded to Donald Watson, with the jury describing him as “Queensland’s foremost architectural historian” and a “protagonist of postmodernist design”. Australia’s most prestigious architecture award, the Gold Medal recognises distinguished service by architects who have designed or executed buildings of high merit, producing work […]
Venetian practice MAP studio has been commissioned to design the site of MPavilion 2021, which will open in Melbourne on 11 November. Founded in 2010 and led by Francesco Magnani and Traudy Pelzel, MAP studio specialises in urban renewal and the “sympathetic transformation” of existing structures and spaces. The practice is best known for its […]
The Robin Boyd Foundation has teamed up with Creative Partnership Australia for a fundraiser dedicated to amplifying the voice of architecture and good design in Australia. The Amplify Our Voice fundraiser is being launched to mark the release of After The Australian Ugliness – a collection of essays by authors from a range of disciplines […]
Cardboard tubes – a by-product of this Melbourne company’s manufacturing process – were used as a decorative element in this office space from Splinter Society Architecture. Located in the south-eastern suburb of Springvale, Asaleo is a manufacturing company with a product range centred around forestry products. The cardboard tubes were used to construct wall linings, […]
Plus Architecture chose a “sculpturally beautiful” design for its latest apartment project on the Queensland coastline, tapering its exterior so it appears thinner to the eyes of beachside passersby. Inspired by the way a sculptor carves marble, the practice tapered the edges of the slab for the Luna Burleigh tower – a technique it has […]
The Association of Consulting Architects Australia’s (ACA) fifth ‘pulse check’ continues to track the impact of COVID-19 on the architecture industry, increasing knowledge of what is needed to ensure a robust future for architectural practices. The ACA’s third ‘pulse check’, conducted at the end of June 2020, sought information about how practices were faring in […]
We’re living in an age where, increasingly, our home spaces need to do double duty. Not only are we demanding more and more in terms of functionality and versatility (hello home office squeezed into the lounge or dining room), but we also want our living spaces to offer something more intangible – a mood, a […]
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