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Thanks to everyone who entered IDEA 2021! We know it’s been a difficult few months, but to all the practices and studios who entered IDEA 2021, we wanted to say thanks! Read on to find out the next steps for this year’s awards. Entries have come in from all over the country and abroad with […]
PTID has unveiled its “flex-focussed” Flinders Street workhub with rich colour and design choices that “foster genuine curiosity and interest”. Drawing upon its experience of last year’s COVID-19 lockdown, the PTID WorkHub was designed to encourage its team, clients and industry partners to “connect physically and virtually. “PTID believe in creating spaces that positively shape […]
Adrenalin. Pumping music. Neon lights. Hard surfaces. A raging nightclub immediately springs to mind – this is the embodied experience of 1Rebel’s new gym designed by Foolscap Studio. What distinguishes UK-based 1Rebel’s (1R) first foray in Australia from typical gyms is its innovative approach to design, driven through strategic research into the psychological journey and […]
The extended entry deadline for IDEA 2021 ends on 25 June at midnight AEST. This is your last chance to enter your projects and your studio! Can I really complete my entry in 24 hours? Yes! Sign into your account and choose one of our project categories that best fits your project. You can also nominate yourself for the special […]
Warm white walls and pale timber floors serve as the background to a vast collection of art in this Melbourne renovation by K.P.D.O. The studio, which is led by 2016 IDEA Gold Medallist Kerry Phelan and Stephen Javens, were approached by a client looking transform an “uninspiring 1980s addition” to a Victorian villa. “The project […]
There are only four days left to get your entry in to IDEA 2021. To help you prepare your entry and submit it before midnight AEST on 25 June, we’ve put together answers to some key questions: 1. What is IDEA? The Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) is Australia’s oldest independent architecture and interior design […]
Cultivated has just been announced as the newest sponsor of IDEA 2021, placing its support behind one of the program’s most sought-after prizes – the Sustainability Award. Established in 2013, but officially launched at Melbourne Design Week this year, Cultivated is Cult’s in-house sustainability program. The leading Australian design destination, which offers premium furniture, lighting and […]
Sue Carr has been awarded an Order of Australia in recognition of her service to “interior design, education, and women in business” in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list. The Order of Australia recognises Australians who have displayed outstanding service or exceptional achievement in the community, acting as an opportunity to celebrate professional excellence. The […]
Focused on “fusing old and new”, studiofour has expanded a Federation-era family home with the addition of a dramatic black zinc-clad extension. Located in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern East, Central Park Residence presents an unchanged face to the streetscape of similarly built Federation homes. It’s only until you step to the back of the […]
JDA Co. has “perched” a new bar onto the rooftop of one of Stanley Street’s Heritage-listed shops in the Brisbane inner-city suburb of Woolloongabba. An addition to the modern French restaurant that occupies the shop beneath it, the newly opened Le Bon Bar was designed under stringent local Heritage restrictions. “We designed the structure to […]
Entries for IDEA 2021 close in five days! To help you prepare your entry and submit it before midnight AEST this Friday 11 June, here are some tips. Entry requirements: To enter IDEA, you’ll need 10 images, a specs sheet, project plans and the answers to the following 3 questions: What were the aims of […]
Sustainability is “not something you attach to the building, it’s something that is embedded in its DNA” says inaugural IDEA Sustainability judge Bonnie Herring of Breathe Architecture. Director and sustainability lead at the Melbourne practice, Herring will be overseeing IDEA’s Sustainability Award, judging and selecting the winner from the projects entered in the 2021 program. […]
The latest in architecture
The mental health challenges in Australian architecture and design were challenges “before the pandemic as well”, according to landscape architect, Place Intelligence co-founder and human potential coach Bonnie Shaw. Shaw joined Head of Architecture at Monash University and Parlour co-founder Professor Naomi Stead and Hassell managing director Steve Coster for a special episode of Hassell Talks released […]
Tribe Studio Architects has channeled “modest fisher-cottages” in its latest project – a take on the modern kit home-turned holiday house in the Bundeena. Almost 30 kilometres south of Sydney in the Royal National Park, Bundeena is a beachside village know for its cliffs, water pools, lagoons and single storey timber cottages. “We could have […]
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 British industrial designer came to this week’s Salone del Mobile in Milan with a new lighting collection dubbed Luminosity. The annual furniture fair, which kicked off on Monday and is set to end this Friday, is a much pared-back occasion after the original April timing was postponed following COVID-19 restrictions. The event will be […]
While JobKeeper was the Australian Federal Government’s principal scheme for helping businesses to survive the economic impacts of COVID-19, now that it has ended, a new incentive to kick-start the economy has been launched. But what is JobMaker and can it benefit your practice? Launched on 7 October 2020 in line with the Federal Budget, […]
Architecture can be both a business and a vocation, but what happens afterwards? ADR tours Justin Art House Museum (JAHM) with Charles Justin – one of the founders of famed Melbourne practice SJB – to find out. If you’ve ever found yourself traversing the busy residential stretch of Hotham Street in the inner Melbourne suburb […]
Hassell made 59 promotions across its global studios at the end of last month, adding six new principals to its leadership team. Speaking of the announcement, Hassell’s managing director Steve Coster described the appointments as a balanced representation of the practice, “including gender and geographic locations. “These promotions reflect each individual’s contribution toward designing the world’s best places […]
Victorian treasurer Tim Pallas will be launching this year’s Be Summit, which will be held virtually on 10 September 2021. The annual built environment event will be free to watch and features headliners EY Asia-Pacific markets and business development leader Matt Lovegrove, CoreLogic Asia Pacific head of research Tim Lawless, Ray White chief economist Nerida […]
Following the release of the latest IPCC climate report, ADR reached out to AIA 2021 Leadership in Sustainability Prize joint winner and Australian Architects Declare spokesperson Caroline Pidcock. A prominent advocate for sustainable development, Pidock explains how architects and designers can help prevent catastrophic climate change. As the IPCC AR6 Synthesis report clunked into our inboxes last month, […]
Artists, designers and architects are being invited to pitch their projects and ideas for Melbourne Design Week 2022. The Victoria-wide 11-day program of talks, tours, workshops, launches and exhibitions builds upon the 2021 theme – ‘Design the world you want’ with two new “pillars” – Civic Good and Making Good. For the former, Melbourne Design […]
The eight-story building from Wood Marsh shines its monolithic crystal formation on Cremorne’s fast-growing design and technology precinct, Church Street. Architects worked collaboratively with construction company ICON to create a first-of-its-kind progressive commercial building among the industrial grit of the inner-city Melbourne suburb. 600 Church Street is unconventional in form with the building designed to […]
SJB sought to bring a “sense of play” to a changing neighbourhood five kilometres from Sydney with a Spinach Green-coated office and childcare centre. 22 William Street in Beaconsfield was named the Grand Prix Australia Winner at this week’s Dulux Colour Awards. The jury, which included Arent&Pyke’s Sarah-Jane Pyke, Greenaway Architects’ Jefa Greenaway and Studio […]
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