The latest in interiors
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 […]
Ikea is coming to a computer screen near you with its first-ever 24-hour festival featuring artists, designers, DJs and chefs. Kicking off at 4pm AEST on 16 September 2021, the program is set to include concerts and DJ sets, home visits, food demos and kitchen talks, as well as behind the scenes peeks into life […]
Haymes Colour Library Volume 15: Awakening is all about embracing the change we see all around us. The Australian paint brand‘s latest colour library explores how we are adjusting to the “new normal”, encouraging us to “let our personality shine through” and “live the life we’ve always dreamed”. The new library features a set of three […]
ADR has teamed up with Sydney spirit mavericks Archie Rose for the ultimate design collaboration and competition! Earlier this year, we called on three of the country’s best interior designers to create bespoke labels for Archie Rose’s insanely good Tailored Spirits Collection. Now, we’re giving you the chance to win one of five prize packs […]
The latest in architecture
Inspired to defend the everyday workings of the family, K&T’s Place by Brisbane architecture practice Nielsen Jenkins celebrates the “small routines of preparation and retreat.” Named after the current owners, artist Keith Burt and his partner Tarragh Cunningham, assistant director at the Queensland Art Gallery, K&T’s Place is one of the last standing residential blocks […]
The Herston Biofabrication Institue is an opportunity to showcase “complex technology in a way people could understand”, says Hassell Principal Carolyn Solley. Situated in the heart of Brisbane’s Herston Health Precinct, the institute is a key development in upholding the precinct’s reputation as a world-leading health and knowledge community. ADR recently caught up with Solley […]
More than three-quarters of the energy used by domestic appliances is consumed during use. With the Australian architecture and interior design industry increasingly conscious of the role it has to play in this country’s response to the climate emergency, it’s food for thought. And it’s something Miele has been actively addressing for more than two […]
In celebration of the 2021 IDEA Awards, ADR is taking a sneak peek into the people behind the design magic, with Fiona Dunin from FMD Architects kicking us off. As a Designer of the Year finalist, FMD Architects have two projects shortlisted in the Residential Single category and one in Workplace under 1000 sqm category. […]
bureau^proberts has topped its design for the Australia Pavilion at the Dubai Expo with vertical powder-coated aluminium blades inspired by a cumulus cloud. A natural phenomenon mobile across all Australian landscapes and “indeed evident across the world”, the cumulus cloud is a representation of our country’s welcoming and multicultural nature. “The cumulus cloud is agile […]
The 2021 DESIGN Canberra Festival has been cancelled this morning with organisers choosing to move the entire program to next year. Slated to run in the capital from 5-28 November, this year’s festival was designed to support more than 500 artists impacted by COVID-19-driven cancellations. It would have featured creative workshops (online and in person), […]
Sydney-based architect Glenn Murcutt has been named Australia’s first Praemium Imperiale laureate – an annual prize awarded by the Japan Art Association. Designed to honour “fields of achievement not covered by the Nobel Prizes”, the program selects winners in architecture, painting, music and sculpture, with each receiving five million yen ($61,000). As the 2021 architecture laureate, […]
Set within the beautiful and open Heritage space of Hinchcliff House, Lana “celebrates togetherness”, according to interior architecture and design studio Mitchell & Eades. Completed in Sydney in June this year, Lana has been shortlisted in the hospitality category for IDEA 2021, with winners set to be announced next year. Helmed by one of New Zealand’s […]
In many ways, 2021 feels like a repeat of 2020. So many of the challenges we as creatives and designers faced in 2020 have reared their ugly head in 2021. As the organisers behind Australia’s first independent architecture and interior design award, we are in the unenviable position of trying to bring together a program […]
One of Australia’s most exciting contemporary artists Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran is set to showcase his exhibition The Guardians at Sydney Sullivan+Strumpf across four exciting weeks. Opening October 14, Nithiyendran’s major solo exhibition will feature creative references to his diverse global influences and gestures to broad histories related to sculptural and ritualistic icons designed to protect […]
The Melbourne City Mission’s Hester Hornbrook Academy Sunshine campus by Gray Puksand is a project built on establishing values of “community and belonging” for Victoria’s most disadvantaged youths. Leveraging on The Academy’s values of community and belonging, the practice created a contemporary and purposeful learning space for Sunshine, located 12km west of the CBD. In […]
All this week and last, we’ve been sharing the shortlisted projects for IDEA 2021, but there are a few categories that don’t have shortlists. Case in point – the IDEA Overall Winner. Overall Winner is awarded to the submission the jury believes to be the most outstanding design among the individual category winners for that […]
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