The latest in interiors
The final week of the IDEA 2021 shortlist reveal begins with our other two Residential categories: Residential – Interior Curation and Residential Multi. All shortlisted projects are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project. On Friday, we shared the finalists in […]
The first week of the IDEA 2021 shortlist reveal ends with the Colour, Hospitality and International categories. All shortlisted projects are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project. We announced almost all the shortlisted categories this week and will be continuing […]
The IDEA 2021 shortlist reveal continues today with the Retail, Workplace and Sustainability categories. All shortlisted projects are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project. We’ll be announcing all the shortlisted categories this week and next. Yesterday we shared the shortlisted […]
The IDEA 2021 Object – Furniture and Lighting categories have been announced today with 11 rising projects and 16 professional ones shortlisted. All shortlisted projects are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project. We’ll be announcing all the shortlisted categories this […]
The IDEA 2021 Institutional, Public Space and Event shortlists are in! All shortlisted projects are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project. We’ll be announcing all the shortlisted categories this week and next. Yesterday we shared the shortlisted projects in our […]
The IDEA 2021 Residential Single shortlist has been unveiled, with 74 projects selected across Australia. All shortlisted Residential Single projects are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project. We’ll be announcing all the shortlisted categories this week and next. Next up […]
Dulux has chosen three tonal palettes as an “emotive reflection of what humanity needs in this era of uncertainty” for its 2022 forecast. As we develop into a society with deeper reliance on our homes, the team at the global paint company predicts its 2022 palette with more acuity than ever before. It falls upon […]
With more than two decades of design experience in Australia and France, Léo Terrando didn’t make the decision to go solo lightly. The former SJB director tells ADR it may have been a spur of the moment decision – made in the middle of Melbourne’s fifth COVID-19 lockdown – but it’s one he doesn’t regret. […]
Seeking design autonomy, former SJB, GOLDEN and Mim Design senior interior designer Charlotte Weatherley established her own practice Studio Amble at the start of 2021. “When you work for yourself, you get a taste of indecision,” she tells ADR of the move. “The questioning of the project and teasing out all the elements, really makes […]
Sydney Design Week 2021 has gone digital with a two-day Design Summit featuring David Flack, Yasmine Ghoniem and New York lighting designer Lindsey Adelman. The trio will be discussing the ethics of embedding community into your practice and studio on the second-day of the summit – Friday 17 September. The festival, which usually takes place […]
The wait to find out which projects have been shortlisted for IDEA 2021 is almost over! The 2021 shortlist reveal will kick off on Monday 20 September with largest category – Residential Single. On Tuesday 21 September, we’ll be sharing our Institutional, Public Space, and Event finalists, followed by our Object – Furniture and Lighting […]
Inspired by Australian designers and Italian masters equally, Sydney-based lighting designer Alex Fitzpatrick is one to watch. The founder and director of A Design Studio, Fitzpatrick is thoughtful and expressive – the human embodiment of his pieces, which are just as considered and contemplative. Using both traditional skills like glassblowing and metalworking and contemporary lighting […]
The latest in architecture
Drawing inspiration from a vanilla ice cream cone, Bianco House by Melbourne’s Ha Architecture delivers a delightful set of experiences with asymmetrical accents. Completed last year, the project has been shortlisted in the Residential Single category for IDEA 2021, with winners set to be announced in late February 2022. To receive regular updates about IDEA, including […]
Since launching their practice in 2008, Foomann founding directors Jamie Sormann and Jo Foong have approached each project with considered simplicity and warmth to create homes primed for their client’s lifestyle. Created only two years after graduating from Melbourne University, Foong and Sormann explain that their small architecture practice “wasn’t really a planned thing”. “It […]
In celebration of the 2021 IDEA Awards, ADR is taking a sneak peek into the people behind the design magic. Today we’ll learn more about the design duo from Kennedy Nolan. As a Designer of the Year finalist, Kennedy Nolan has seven projects shortlisted in a range of categories, most notably Residential Single. Winners are set to […]
From multi-storey ultra modern homes to Australia’s first purpose-built LGBTIQ+ hub, the impressive shortlist for the ArchiTeam Awards 2021 has been released! Now in its 14th year, the awards program open exclusively to ArchiTeam members is an opportunity for practices to showcase their designs to the industry and the curious general public. Of this year’s 115 entries, […]
This drive for optimal consumption in tandem with optimal results is at the heart of Miele. From day one, the core of the brand’s product philosophy has been to manufacture to the highest quality and with a long service life, using premium-quality materials and sophisticated production methods. Where possible, those materials are also recyclable and, […]
Pritzker Prize winner Grafton Architects added another trophy to its collection this week, taking home the 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize for Kingston University London’s Town House. Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara were named last year’s Pritzker Prize laureates, with the jury celebrating the duo for the “integrity in their approach to both their buildings, […]
To enhance the public purpose of the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas, Tzannes designed an interior that tells a story of time past and present. Completed last year, the JNIJI has been shortlisted for IDEA 2021, the winners of which are set to be announced in person in February 2022 at the IDEA […]
More 60 of the world’s biggest and best known architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, planning and construction firms have co-signed the 1.5oC COP26 Communiqué ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow. An unprecedented open-letter to world leaders, the Communiqué reaffirms the commitment made by each individual firm and organisation to meet […]
Balarinji managing director Ros Moriarty discusses how a co-design methodology with local Aboriginal shareholders is required to create urban places connected to Place and Country. Nearly 40 years ago, Ros and her husband Yanyuwa man John Moriarty founded the Indigenous design studio to foster authentic engagement and understanding of Aboriginal Australia for major projects nationally. […]
Calls for the 2022 NGV Architecture Commission Competition kick off tomorrow with Australian multi-disciplinary practices and studios invited to submit their entries. Now in its seventh iteration, the commission is a chance for architects and designers to pen a temporary pavilion to be displayed throughout the summer at the NGV International’s Grollo Equiset Garden in […]
Until last year, teaching was largely on campus, but has the collective experience of working from home during the pandemic changed attitudes in higher education across the world? Hassell senior researcher Michaela Sheahan shares what the research indicates for the future. Over the last few years, Sheahan has conducted research into how students learn, how […]
In celebration of the 2021 IDEA Awards, ADR is taking a sneak peek into the people behind the design magic, with Melbourne designer Travis Walton now taking the lead. As a Designer of the Year finalist, Travis Walton Architecture has two projects shortlisted in the Residential Single category and one in Workplace under 1000sqm category. Winners are […]
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