The latest in interiors
Lachlan Kirkland is a Sydney-based designer at YSG Studio, whose creative journey began with childhood forts in Sancrox. Below, we speak to the member of Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30 for 2025/2026 about the profound value of interdisciplinary collaboration. Lachlan Kirkland: To meet new people! This is an absolutely amazing mentorship opportunity, and I want to […]
A panel of industry experts, moderated by Jeremy Bull from Alexander&CO., came together last week to discuss sustainability in the A+D industry and particularly how it applies to the design of buildings and products. The event was held in LAUFEN’s new Sydney Gallery, where a packed house came to hear insights from Emma Greenstein, Senior […]
With a slew of projects recently completed and several more announced, Australia’s build-to-rent (BTR) sector is entering a phase of accelerated development. The national pipeline of apartments (operating, under construction or in planning) has increased from 39,300 in Q2 2025 to 51,000 in Q1 2026. The sector value has increased from $30.1 billion to $40.1 […]
Following ADR’s coverage of the evocative venues, apartment takeovers and unmissable exhibitions at Milan Design Week this year, there was also a range of new and rereleased products under the spotlight at this year’s event. LAUFEN In an era where industrial decarbonisation must match architectural ambition, Swiss brand LAUFEN has unveiled VOLTA, a conceptual washbasin […]
With over 400 events, exhibitions and more to choose from, selecting the ones at Melbourne Design Week (MDW) you’d like to attend could be a tad overwhelming. This is probably why the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), organiser of the ever-growing festival, laid on a relatively quick tour of some highlights following MDW’s launch this […]
A Melbourne CBD intervention achieves warmth, intimacy and a 50 to 75 percent reduction in embodied carbon through keeping what already exists. Across Australia’s major cities, the pressure to reposition ageing commercial assets has become one of the defining challenges of the built environment, and all too often the default response is demolition, a cycle […]
More than a decade after it was founded, RJ Living continues to grow by staying true to the philosophy that built it: furniture shaped by materiality, proportion and everyday use, designed for the way Australians actually live. “RJ Living started with a simple idea – to create beautifully designed furniture that feels considered, timeless and […]
Maeve Mullane is a Sydney-based interior designer who focuses on human-centred work and is led by material choices. As a member of Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30 for 2025/2026, she excels at challenging conventions through the use of offbeat colours, unconventional forms and unexpected textures. Australian Design Review: What do you enjoy doing in your spare […]
Miele unveiled its latest design concept, ‘Designed to Move with You’, at Milan Design Week 2026, presenting a vision of the kitchen as a flexible, intelligent living space that adapts to modern lifestyles rather than remaining a fixed functional zone. Showcased at both EuroCucina and the newly redesigned Miele Experience Centre in Milan’s Brera Design […]
Faena Hotel’s New York outpost immerses guests in decadent and flamboyant design, from its gilded ceilings down to its floor art by Designer Rugs. Opening to fanfare in September 2025, Faena New York is the third location for the hotel chain that first opened in Buenos Aires in 2005, followed by Miami Beach in 2015. […]
This week Humanscale is hosting Designing Comfort: The Art and Ergonomics of Seating, a livestreamed discussion, with Alan Hedge exploring the ways to combat common posture mistakes, including hunched ‘shrimp’ sitting, and their effects on muscle fatigue, breathing, circulation and musculoskeletal strain. I’m going to be honest here. When you’ve been working in a certain […]
From sculptural furniture and glowing glassware to First Nations storytelling and radical material reuse, this year’s Melbourne Design Week 2026 (MDW) arrives with an expansive program that pushes design beyond object making and into culture, community and conversation. Across 11 days and more than 400 events, exhibitions and installations, the festival will transform galleries, warehouses, […]
Having recently joined Grimshaw, following a stint at AJC Architects, Simone Carmody continues to be driven by her passion for the environment, for promoting regenerative and sustainable design, and for designing spaces that connect people, place and the planet. As a member of the 2025/26 cohort for Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30, she says she’s proud to […]
Following the apartment tours from this year’s Milan Design Week, ADR highlights the top exhibitions we visited during this year’s event. The Factory of Light presented by Aesop For its third appearance at Milan Design Week, Aesop presented The Factory of Light, a multisensory installation at Milan’s Santa Maria Del Carmine. Designed by Australian architect […]
The pioneering podcaster, graphic designer, educator and author is coming to Vivid Sydney in June for an exclusive keynote, imparting wisdom gleaned from decades in practice and more than 700 conversations with creatives. Debbie Millman has breathed deeply with Marina Abramović, discussed humanity with Gloria Steinem, and once had a heated argument with Richard Saul […]
Architectural spaces should sound as good as they look. To achieve this perfect balance of design, form and function, it comes down to the right expertise to bring an architect’s vision to life. europanel saw the need for quality architectural wall and ceiling panelling that challenged the existing ‘one-size-fits-all’ market. This led the business to […]
The latest in architecture
A new commercial tower in Brisbane cracks open the traditional workplace typology with an office tower ‘designed to breathe’. For a decade now, Brisbane City Council has invited developers and architects delivering new high-density developments to give the city ‘Buildings that Breathe’. The Council’s aspiration has been for new buildings to embrace the subtropical climate, […]
A new harbour destination has opened, where working industry, public life and sustainable design converge. The new Sydney Fish Market has opened on Sydney Harbour, marking a decisive shift in how one of the city’s most industrious waterfront sites engages with public life. Positioned at Blackwattle Bay, the project reframes the working fish market as […]
Set at the edge of Melbourne’s sporting heart, Gate 8 reimagines the workplace as a civic participant, where human-centred design, long-term collaboration and architectural restraint shape a new model for contemporary office life. Standing at the threshold between Yarra Park and the city, Gate 8 occupies a site where Melbourne’s civic rituals play out at […]
Far from a simple rebuild, the replacement of an outdated life-saving pavilion offered multiple challenges for JCB. If there’s ever a word that gets overused, not just in the A+D space, but across the board, it must be ‘iconic’. But when you’re talking about the Brighton Beach bathing boxes in the bayside Melbourne suburb, there’s […]
From Tasmania’s rugged south, So. Architecture shapes a built world of quiet strength, guided by Liz Walsh and Alex Nielsen. There is a quiet intensity to the work of So. Architecture. The practice, founded by Liz Walsh and Alex Nielsen in Hobart, has built its reputation on an architecture of distilled clarity. Its projects hover […]
Summer in Australia is an energising season for design lovers, with plenty of inspiration beckoning outside of studio walls. Experience new ideas, discover emerging talent and reconnect with the people shaping our design landscape with Australian Design Review’s guide to summer design events below. Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria The NGV in Melbourne has […]
COX Architecture and Hassell will partner with Japan’s Azusa Sekkei to deliver the new Brisbane Stadium, the main venue for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Queensland Government awarded the trio the contract for Brisbane Stadium, slated for development in Victoria Park, after a three-month procurement process by the Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination […]
As Australia searches for faster and cleaner ways to deliver housing at scale, modular construction continues to promise much yet deliver selectively. A major Build to Rent project in Parramatta shows what can shift when Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) becomes a corporate strategy rather than a project experiment. With the persistence of labour shortages, […]
The Architecture MasterPrize 2025 winners demonstrate how thoughtful design continues to redefine living, working and community spaces across continents. Now in its milestone 10th year, the Architecture MasterPrize stands as an international beacon for design excellence, celebrating projects that advance creativity, sustainability and cultural engagement across architecture and related disciplines. Drawing submissions from over 70 […]
A new creative community space on a construction site in Sydney is seeking three residents for its Placeholder program in 2026, whose practices engage with regenerative practice, care and public space. The four-month paid residencies will take place within two new custom-built structures – known as ‘Field Rooms’ – located on the working construction site […]
Wilya Janta, a new initiative out of Warumungu Country in Tennant Creek, says Aboriginal-led design could help address housing inequality in Indigenous communities. Around 500 kilometres north of Alice Springs, Tennant Creek resident and Warumungu spokesman Jimmy Frank Jupurrurla describes the houses as “prison-like”. Often overcrowded, lacking insulation and kitted with box air-conditioners that can […]
With the opening of Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel, attention turns from engineering magnitude to architectural meaning. Arden Station stands as a declaration of intent, signalling how transport infrastructure can plant new civic life while honouring the layered industrial fabric of its surroundings. Arden Station opened to passengers on 30 November 2025, marking a decisive moment in […]
November 2025 brought about significant leadership changes across pockets of Australia’s architecture and interior design industry, as well as studio updates and individual honours. View them all below. DIA welcomes new CEO Simone LeAmon. Photo: supplied. At the end of November, the country’s peak voice for design, the Design Institute of Australia, announced that Simone […]
A little-known Victorian rule is pushing designers into builder territory as projects pass the $10,000 mark. An obscure Victorian building rule is reshaping the everyday reality of interior designers, who may be breaking the law each time they take on a project worth more than $10,000. The threshold, originally intended to regulate building contractors, now […]
Australian Design Review today unveils its 30UNDER30 shortlist for 2025/2026, recognising 66 emerging and outstanding interior designers, architects, product designers and innovators of the built world from across Australia. Since its inception in 2022, Australian Design Review (ADR)’s 30UNDER30 program has provided life-changing career development opportunities, mentorship and recognition to A+D professionals aged 30 and […]
HDR’s architecture practice in Australia has identified seven ‘megatrends’ increasingly shaping architectural solutions across the country and beyond. Below, managing principal Huai Lim outlines those conclusions, drawn from HDR’s work and conversations with clients, stakeholders and collaborators across the industry, as well as what the practice is seeing emerge globally. In 2026, architecture will be […]
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