In our series celebrating Women of Influence in Architecture and Interior Design, Australian Design Review caught up with Bethany James, the unstoppable force, CEO and founder of Australia’s leading iconic name in luxurious interiors — James Said. Bethany James catches up with ADR over Google Meet from her stunning showroom in Armadale, Melbourne. In a […]
Continuing our series celebrating Women of Influence in Architecture and Interior Design, Australian Design Review spotlights the jaw-dropping career of arguably 2024’s most in-demand designer – Yasmine Ghoniem of studio YSG. Following the launch of design collective Amber Road with her sister Katy Svalbe, a landscape architect, in 2013, YSG Studio burst onto the scene […]
Australian Design Review is putting the spotlight on Women of Influence in architecture and interior design, starting with Shona McElroy, 30UNDER30 alum and SMAC Studio principal, to talk about inspiration and equality and join her to tour her new studio space in Paddington. As Australian Design Review walks the tight little streets of Sydney’s Paddington […]
From humble beginnings as a small scale general engineering workshop, Formway has become an award-winning, world-leading design studio. While they don’t consider themselves as a furniture design practice, it is their task chairs, which include the Life chair for Knoll, and most recently the Denn chair for Zenith, that put them on the map. As […]
LANDMARK by Lexus collaborator Koichi Takada Architects is driven to forge an empathetic relationship to nature through architecture and design. For 15 years, the Sydney-based practice – founded and fronted by principal Koichi Takada – has used nature as guiding inspiration. The practice brims with a passion to incorporate the liberating and relaxing benefits of […]
Snag in some proactive Christmas shopping with CULT and HAY offering 20 percent off all furniture and lighting in-store and online across three days for Black Friday. From Thursday 23 November to Saturday 25 of November – only one month out from Christmas Day – CULT and HAY are offering shoppers 20 percent discount on […]
The South Australian architecture practice’s design of a new head office for Can:Do Group seeks to enrich the health and well-being of those using the space. Following its partnership with Can:Do Group last year, Matthews Architects has provided a new head office for the charity – amalgamating staff and client requirements of Can:Do’s previous Welland […]
The Melbourne-based architecture and interior design studio has designed 38 Abermarle Street – an Australian first reimagination of a medium density build-to-rent – for Assemble, a Certified B Corporation build-to-rent developer. 38 Albermarle Street – a ‘build-to-rent-to-own’ (BTRTO) development – comes from the fruitful collaboration between Fieldwork and Assemble seeking to create socially vibrant, aesthetically […]
The Melbourne-based architecture and interior design studio Splinter Society demonstrates its usual penchant for restoration and paying homage to site history, via Gable House in Hawthorn, in Melbourne’s inner east. Splinter Society was tasked with delivering a practical and aesthetically rich contemporary home for a young family that celebrated the history of the site as […]
Sydney-based architecture practice Richards Stanisich maintains that an ongoing evaluation of the sensory experiences of a space is imperative to the growth of designers. Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 program provides mentorship and career development in the architecture and design industry, bringing together game-changers, industry leaders, practice founders, product manufacturers, suppliers and sponsors to highlight and empower young […]
Victoria’s most reputable annual sustainability awards have this year acknowledged three Victorian architectural projects as finalists. Recently celebrating its twenty-first year as an awards program, the Premier’s Sustainability Awards offer the chance for two winners to take out the title in each of the six categories. Such categories include the Community Champion award in recognition […]
Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 program provides mentorship and career development in the architecture and design industry, bringing together game-changers, industry leaders, practice founders, product manufacturers, suppliers and sponsors to highlight and empower young architects and innovators of the future. In celebration of the new ADR 30UNDER30 Architects and Innovators of the Built World stream, ADR […]