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A cantilevering “zinc box” creates more space for a growing Melbourne family in this Edwardian house by Maher Design and Lincoln Barker Architecture. “The sobering realisation that the clients’ teenage children may be slow to move out of home prompted an extensive renovation and addition,” explains the Melbourne practice, which worked on Rowe house with […]
The shortlist for the IDEA 2020 Object – Furniture and Lighting (Professional) and Sustainability categories have been announced. The shortlisted projects for each category are listed below in a dedicated video and featured on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project. The Residential Multi, Colour, Retail, Object – Furniture and Lighting (Rising), […]
Timber, steel and aluminium reflect the “robust characterful European-Australian and industrial heritage” in the latest residential and mixed-use offering from Milieu with Foolscap Studio and Fieldwork. “Positioned in the more culturally eclectic heart of the bustling, original foodie hub Lygon Street, Brunswick East by Milieu is purposefully designed for hospitality-inclined residents,” says the property group. […]
The shortlist for the IDEA 2020 Designers of the Year have been announced, recognising the incredible contribution of seven amazing practices. The shortlisted designers are listed below in a dedicated video and featured on the IDEA website where you can find more information about each. The shortlist of designers were selected by our editorial team. A further round […]
Searle x Waldron Architecture was the Australian Grand Prix winner at the 2020 Dulux Colour Awards, taking home the top prize for UOM Southbank – End of Trip. The project used a new facade to update bicycle storage and change rooms, which is revealed upon campus entry at the University of Melbourne Southbank. The jury, […]
It’s a cliché, but there’s something chic about The Unlisted Collective director Bianca Fraser. The Sydney-based interior designer is a bit of a hidden gem. She hasn’t been in the solo practice game for long, starting out in 2016, after cutting her teeth on some of Burley Katon Halliday’s most envy-inducing projects, including the gorgeous […]
The shortlist for the IDEA 2020 Hospitality and Institutional categories have been announced. The shortlisted projects for each category are listed below in a dedicated video and featured on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project. Shortlisted projects were selected by our editorial team. A further round of judging by our jury […]
It’s the one we’ve all been waiting for – The shortlist for the IDEA 2020 Residential Single category has been revealed today. The shortlisted projects for each category are listed below in a dedicated video and featured on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project. Shortlisted projects were selected by our editorial […]
The shortlists for the IDEA 2020 Public Space and Event categories are the first to be announced in this second and final week of reveals. The shortlisted projects for each category are listed below in a dedicated video and featured on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project. Here are the shortlisted […]
Week one of IDEA 2020 shortlist reveals ends with the Workplace Over 1000sqm category, along with a special video featuring all 17 past Overall Winners. Shortlisted projects were selected by our editorial team. A further round of judging by our jury – Andrew Parr, Hana Hakim, Rachel Luchetti, Simone Haag, Anna Spiro, Brendan Wong and Jeremy […]
Studio MKZ used a “stark white” base palette as the foundation for its fitout of Sydney pastry store, Black Star Pastry. With stores in Melbourne and Sydney, Black Star Pastry is behind the internet sensation, the Strawberry Watermelon Cake, which the New York Times dubbed “Australia’s most Instagrammed cake”. The Galeries outlet is the brand’s […]
The shortlists for the IDEA 2020 International category and Emerging Designer of the Year finalists have been revealed today. The shortlisted projects for each category are listed below in a dedicated video and featured on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project. Shortlisted projects were selected by our editorial team. A further […]
The September/October issue of inside magazine is on newsstands now and includes all the projects shortlisted for IDEA 2020. In this issue, place is at the forefront. It’s the lynchpin that holds all our projects together. The driver for all our featured architects and designers. Place is a word that’s used a lot in this […]
The shortlists for the IDEA 2020 Object – Furniture and Lighting (Rising) and Residential Decoration categories have been revealed today. The shortlisted projects for each category are listed below in a dedicated video and featured on the IDEA website, where you can find more images and information about each project. Shortlisted projects were selected by our editorial team. A […]
Comedian and design enthusiast Tim Ross has put the recent lockdown to good use by producing a new podcast about the Sydney Opera House’s tapestries. “As a touring performer, everything sort of stopped. So pretty quickly, I thought about all the things I could do if I can’t get on the road,” he tells ADR. […]
There are only two weeks remaining to submit your project into Shaw Contract’s 2020 Design Awards! Recognising excellence and the creative vision of architects and designers, the Shaw Contract Design Awards program has been held annually since 2005 – that’s 15 years of placing a spotlight on practitioners who inspire new ways of living, working, learning […]
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Joining two townhouses, Splinter Society Architecture peeled back past renovations to place a soaring masonry and steel wall at the heart of this Melbourne home. Set back from the original Heritage facade, the three-storey glass entry of Three Stories North is an unexpected sight in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. Behind its front door – […]
Victoria will deliver a $5.3 billion Big Housing Build package to construct more than 12,000 new social housing homes throughout metro and regional Victoria over the next four years, supercharging Victoria’s economic recovery through the pandemic and beyond. This package will boost Victoria’s social housing supply by 10 per cent in just four years – […]
Conrad Gargett has announced the promotion of four of its current senior associates to principals, taking the national architecture firm’s total number of principals to fourteen across studios in Brisbane, Melbourne, Newcastle, Sydney, Townsville and Addis Ababa. Lada Bodnaruk, Brent Sanders, Amanda Kershaw and Paul Emmett have been promoted to principals, bringing with them a […]
The first two months of Melbourne’s MPavilion 2020 season feature an array of events exploring architecture and design culturally and aesthetically, but also politically and economically with a focus on urban planning, landscape and history. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, festival organisers made the decision not to commission a new pavilion, but to re-use […]
Global architecture firm Grimshaw has partnered with BPI Rating, the construction material data platform, to co-develop a solution to integrate sustainability and responsible sourcing into the practice’s material selection. The partnership is designed to assist Grimshaw’s ambition to reach carbon neutrality in their practice by 2020 and deliver zero carbon ready buildings and infrastructure by […]
The winners for the 2020 ArchiTeam Awards have been announced in an innovative virtual exhibition created by ArchiTeam members. “As is true for many businesses, 2020 has been a tough year for architects,” says ArchiTeam CEO, Phoebe La Gerche-Wijsman, “but our members are uniquely placed to respond and adapt to these times.” “With Victorian members […]
The International Photography Awards (IPA) has announced the winners of its 2020 competition, including the 1st prize recipients of its eight professional architecture photography categories. An international jury of renowned photography experts judged a total of 13,000 entries from 120 countries around the world, across various genres and styles. Many of the submissions documented the […]
Opened on the 7 November at the Museum of Sydney, Paradise on Earth reimagines the extraordinary architecture career of Marion Mahony Griffin and her deep connection to the natural environment. Born in Chicago in 1871, Marion Mahony Griffin was the second female architect to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a landscape architect […]
Four billion dollars in new or expedited funding for 98 housing program initiatives were announced by Australian governments due to the coronavirus pandemic between March and June 2020. The new report from AHURI, ‘Policy coordination and housing outcomes during COVID-19’, led by researchers from Swinburne University of Technology analysed the scale and range of policy […]
A centerpiece of the 2020/21 MPavilion MTalks program is the fourth installment of the BLAKitecture forum. The talk series foregrounds the voices of Indigenous built environment practitioners, gathering on the Yaluk-ut Weelam land of the Boon Wurrung people to delve deeply into architecture’s obligations to Country. What questions should architects ask themselves before building in […]
MPavilion kicks off in Melbourne on 12 November with festival goers set to enjoy the season on STOOL DOLLY by interior designer and architect Holly Board in partnership with Peter Grove. Designed in collaboration with Melbourne Fringe’s Fringe Furniture program, the MPavilion 2020 stool is part of the festival’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Responding […]
International architecture practice Farrells has unveiled its recently completed One Excellence development in the heart of Shenzhen’s new Qianhai district. The project totals 757,000m2 and sets a global precedent for future mixed use, high-density urbanism – with social and green space at its heart.Central to the scheme are the multi-level streetscapes which create lively interplays […]
In connection with World Habitat Day 2020, UN-Habitat launched its partnership with the Norwegian startup Othalo that has patented a technology that makes it possible to produce building elements from 100% recycled plastic. The United Nations Human Settlements Program has found 1.6 billion people around the world live in inadequate housing, with data reporting that […]
The Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture’s highest honor, has announced the appointments of Alejandro Aravena as jury chair and Manuela Lucá-Dazio as the next executive director, beginning in March 2021. “Throughout the history of the Prize, we have consistently relied on the diversity, expertise and standing of our jury members to interpret the evolving role of […]
Unveiled today at Melbourne’s Birrarung Marr, Sukkah is a pop-up meeting place collaboratively designed by The Jewish Museum of Australia and leading architect and designer Zahava Elenberg. Representing a symbol of community, connection and reflection as the city’s Covid-19 restrictions lift, the vibrant prismatic structure forms a kaleidoscopic canopy and offers a place for visitors […]
Architecture’s reticence to change cannot afford to extend to website content. It is time for the industry to innovate beyond project detail posts and director Q&As. Here are four alternatives. As a business practice, architectural culture is fantastically slow to change. The industry puts on and takes off styles and design trends with ease, but […]
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