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Today marks 30 days to go until entries for IDEA 2021 close. Get your entry in before 11 June 2021 for you chance to win in Australia’s oldest independent interior design and architecture award! With exactly a month to go until IDEA 2021 closes, we thought we’d answer a few of your FAQs about this year’s awards. […]
A “monolithic” concrete bar forms the heart of this 24-square-metre cafe from Pierce Widera, completed during Victoria’s second COVID-19 lockdown last year. The tiny Dux Coffee “hole in the wall” in the inner city suburb of Hawthorn is taller than it is wide, with a raked ceiling that measures 6.5 metres at its highest point, […]
IDEA 2020 gold medalist recipient and Sydney interior design doyenne Meryl Hare has been named the sixth judge for IDEA 2021. IDEA is now open for entries until 11 June. Now in its 19th year, the program is one of Australia’s oldest architecture and interior design awards, with winners selected annually by a panel of […]
IDEA 2021 celebrated its 2020 Designer of the Year David Flack with a star-studded evening hosted by Miele at its South Melbourne Experience Centre last week. The event, which was attended by last year’s winning and highly commended Melbourne-based practices, was the official opening of the awards program for 2021. For guests, it was a […]
Beauty can come from “shutting out the noise” and creating in solitude and isolation says Melbourne interior designer Kate Challis. “We live in a hyper-interactive world, which is fabulous, but we don’t always know when to close that off and focus just on what’s at hand,” the designer told ADR recently. “Otherwise we can become […]
IDEA 2021 is now open for standard entries and will include for the first time in its 19-year history, a special award for pro-bono and community-focused projects. As Australia’s oldest independent interior design and architecture award, IDEA celebrates the year’s best projects, and the individuals and studios behind them. Start your entry now for your chance to […]
David Flack has been named the fifth judge for IDEA 2021, joining Chelsea Hing, Brahman Perera, Hassell principal Domino Risch and Adelaide-based Ryan Genesin. Entries for IDEA 2021 are now open. Enter before 2 May to save $90 on your entry. Don’t worry if you can’t finish it by this Sunday. You can log back in and edit your entry as many […]
Georgie Shepherd Interior Design brought a sense of “warmth in winter and cool in summer” to this 1900s Adelaide villa through textured Arbon pavers and whitewashed American oak. Stanley House was a “typical 1900s sandstone villa”, Shepherd tells ADR, with an early ’80s brick extension and a mix of “pokey rooms” with some late ’80s […]
This Sunday 2 May is the last day you can enter IDEA 2021 at the discounted early entry rate, where you can save $90 your entry fees! Now in its 19th year, IDEA is Australia’s oldest independent interior designer and architecture award. Enter before 23:59 AEST on Sunday to make sure you still qualify for the reduced […]
IDEA 2021 has a new sponsor in high-end Australian fixtures company ABI Interiors. The family-owned business will be sponsoring the Residential Multi category. ABI Interiors is dedicated to creating high-end tapware, fixtures and other space transforming accessories. With a focus on innovation, durability and thoughtful design, ABI products are made using world-class technology and processes with up to […]
Melbourne-based interior designer Chelsea Hing has been named the fourth judge for IDEA 2021, joining Brahman Perera, Hassell principal Domino Risch and Adelaide-based Ryan Genesin. Entries for IDEA 2021 are now open. Enter before 2 May to save $90 on your entry. Heading up her eponymous studio since 2007, Hing is one of the foremost residential interior designers in Australia. Celebrated […]
Naumi Hotels’ The Central by Undercurrent Studio features Deborah Moss’s bespoke wallpaper in every room, paying homage to the surrounding natural environment. In the heart of Queenstown, the boutique hotel aims to bring the outside world into the hotel experience. A “surrealistic sanctuary”, the hotel has a “creative cool vibe” that meets a “sense of […]
The latest in architecture
Sydney’s busiest transit hub, Wynyard Station, has been transformed into a “sweeping new front door for commuters” as the revitalisation project led by Make Architects with Architectus as executive architect comes to a close. The newly unveiled entrance on George Street is part of a much wider civic design project dubbed Wynyard Place. With practical […]
A parliamentary committee has commenced an inquiry into housing affordability and supply in Australia, with a focus on how restrictive planning and zoning measures have affected housing supply. The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue announced last week that it was calling for submissions about how limitations on land and restrictive planning […]
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The 25-metre-high Marsk Tower designed by BIG in Hjemsted, Denmark, was officially opened last week, after first visualisations were revealed by the practice earlier in the year. Translated as Marsh Tower and named in honour of its surroundings, the Corten steel structure spirals upwards from the Wadden Sea National Park as an observational lookout point […]
A nine-metre porcelain bar destined to be “stamped with red wine rings and drippings of olive oil” is at the centre of a new fit-out by global design label Buchan in Melbourne. Made from Calacatta-style porcelain, the piece, which runs down the right-hand side of the narrow Bar Alba in Kew, is fashioned after “nonna’s […]
Chrisney Formosa can see the future. It is bright and innovative, like the apartments she loves to design. Speaking with ADR recently, the associate and lead designer at Plus Architecture Brisbane describes her aim to shift perceptions and practices of Australian apartment architecture. Formosa envisages a housing market that thrives on smart, bespoke and considered apartment design. Recent years have seen setbacks in the industry. Cracked […]
Sydney’s Atlassian Central is the first Australian project to win a major prize in the Holcim Awards, taking home bronze for what is set to be the world’s tallest timber tower. The Holcim Awards were launched in 2005 to showcase the important role of architecture, engineering, urban planning and the building industry in achieving a […]
Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Woods Bagot have unveiled updated designs for the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre, which is now seeking planning approval in Adelaide. The evolved design is being described by Diller Scofidio + Renfro as a “new paradigm in cultural space design”. Initial renders of the 11,500-square-metre cultural centre, unveiled in February […]
Zaha Hadid Architects has teamed up with ETH Zurich and Holcim to design the first-of-its-kind 3D-printed bridge in Venice. Dubbed Striatus, the 16-metre-long bridge is located in the Giardini della Marinaressa in the city’s European Cultural Centre, and is freestanding and assembled without mortar. “Striatus”, a Latin word meaning grooved, reflects the “structural logic” and […]
UK-based architecture discussion platform Sound Advice has gathered the thoughts and reflections of more than 50 architects and urbanists of colour in a new compendium titled Now You Know. The book, which is available for international order online, features diverse practitioners ranging from MBES to architecture students, artists to urban policymakers, each addressing spatial inequality […]
Jorn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House was among the New York Times Magazine’s list of 25 most significant works of postwar architecture shared this week. Built in 1973, the cultural centre was celebrated for its role in inspiring “countless” other buildings, designed to not just “serve their skylines but to transform them”. The jury, which was […]
DKO Architecture has designed the first purpose-built Youth Foyer in New South Wales with “comfort, sensibility and familiarity” front of mind. The 1501 square-metre Foyer Central features 53 self-contained units to provide integrated learning and accomodation opportunities for young people aged 18-22 who are at risk of homelessness and have lived in statutory out of […]
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