The latest in interiors
It’s official! Melbourne is out of lockdown! The IDEA 2020 gala party scheduled for this Friday, 19 February 2021 is going ahead. And the weather gods are smiling down on us with a forecast of 32°C. After the week (read, year) we’ve had, we can’t wait to unwind with a cocktail in one hand, a plate […]
Decus Interiors interplayed old and new in this revival of a Heritage home on the Western Australian coastline. The Sydney practice approached the interiors for Coastal Home as a “layered interplay between traditional and contemporary decoration” blending Heritage bones with the new three-storey addition and pool cabana. “The existing heritage build required a more traditional […]
Update: Given the news that Melbourne will be entering a five-day lockdown at midnight on Friday 12 February, we just wanted to reassure everyone that IDEA 2020 will go ahead as planned on Friday 19 February. We’re confident that, just like in Perth and Adelaide, this lockdown will be a short, sharp circuit breaker and […]
With less than two weeks to go until we announce the winners of IDEA 2020, we take a peek into five our favourite projects from Studio Bright – a finalist in the Designer of the Year category. Previously MAKE Architecture, the Melbourne-based practice is known for creating enduring and responsive architecture for people and places. […]
Have you got your tickets for the IDEA 2020 Gala yet? With just two weeks to go, here’s a peek at what’s in store! IDEA is Australia’s premier interior design and architecture awards. For 16 years, we’ve been celebrating the very best in Australian architecture and interior design with an evening of great food, wine, company and healthy competition between […]
Concrete Blonde by award-winning Sydney design studio Carter Williamson is described as an ‘architectural jewellery box’. The light-filled, gem-toned extension has been shortlisted for the Residential Single 2020 IDEA award. In the lead up to the IDEA gala on the 19 February 2021, we’re introducing you to some of our favourite projects in the running […]
On until 18 April 2021 in Melbourne, the NGV Triennial features the work of more than 100 artists and designers from 32 countries, including two young artists using waste materials to explore more sustainable forms of architecture and design. Syrian born artist Talin Hazbar brings Accretions 2020 – five calcium carbonate structures literally grown in […]
With less than a month until the IDEA 2020 winners are announced, we’re talking trends with a few of our favourite industry leaders. This week, it’s workplace design trends with Shaw Contract. Shaw Contract designs and manufactures carpet and resilient products that give foundation to spaces and support to the people within them. For decades, […]
2020 was anything but an easy year for the latest hotel offering from Carr to open, but Lancemore Crossley St embraces everything we missed about Melbourne during the COVID-19 lockdown. Opened in December, Lancemore Crossley St channels a theatrical design narrative that is a “seamless extension of the city’s creative spirit”. One of the last […]
Architects EAT has brought Japanese “sophistication and simplicity” to a restaurant-to-retail brand in the heart of Melbourne. When approached with the brief to design Calia Emporium, the local studio had Omotesando in mind. A luxury shopping destination and one of the most expensive neighbourhoods in Tokyo, Omotesando is, as Architects EAT director Albert Mo describes, […]
Noise Noise Noise pays homage to Sydney’s second oldest Heritage site – 350 George Street – with a “conceptual retail space” dipped in gold. Drawing inspiration from the building’s marble-lined semi circular foyer, bronze grand staircase and trachyte stone facade, Subtype Sydney is, explains Noise Noise Noise director Blair Cooper, an “expressionist example” of a […]
Hand-troweled plaster walls customised by NGID blend with plush furniture and marble features to give Perth’s Youth Lab a 1970s glam feel inspired by “luxury hotels” and the “private penthouses of New York’s Upper East Side”. Eschewing the typical white and sterile environment commonly found in medical centres, NGID opted for the custom walls as […]
The latest in architecture
There is something enigmatic about MORQ. Elisa Scarton catches up with the Perth and Rome-based practice to talk place, methodology and the eternal quest to stay relevant in an ever-changing industry. I discovered its project ЯĒ purely by chance. Freefalling through design websites in a sensory overloaded sea of interiors brimming with colours and objects […]
Jackson Clements Burrows inserted “hidden surprise elements” throughout the interior architecture of Divided House – the new Melbourne home of practice director Jon Clements. Clements and his wife Elisa had lived on the same Richmond street for eight years before building the home, which was completed in 2020. The practice says it was this experience […]
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 […]
360 Degrees Landscape Architects used succulents and cacti to capture the client’s vision of ‘gesamtkunstwerk’ in the gardens of Sydney’s Phoenix Gallery. Located in the inner-city suburb of Chippendale, the $32 million project was privately commissioned by Judith Neilson and features a gallery designed by John Wardle Architects and a theatre space designed by Durbach […]
Design for design’s sake continues to plague the A&D industry here and overseas, but Killing Matt Woods is working to change that, starting with his own Sydney studio. “How do I get out of bed in the morning?” asks Matt Woods in response to what is possibly my biggest foot-in-mouth moment as a journalist to […]
We all leave things to the last minute, right? Which is why the IDEA 2021 entry deadline has been extended to 25 June. That gives you an extra two weeks to get your entry in! IDEA entries were due to close tomorrow, but we’ve spoken to a lot of architects and interior designers who just […]
Designed by Johannesburg-based practice Counterspace, this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is inspired by places that are “particularly significant to the diasporic and cross-cultural communities” of London. Set to open on 11 June 2021, the temporary pavilion in the city’s Kensington Gardens features “abstracting, superimposing and splicing” elements that vary in “scales of intimacy” and reference the architecture of markets, restaurants, […]
When designing the Cradle Mountain Visitor Centre, Cumulus Studio wanted to create something that felt “carved from a solid rock” as if by a glacier. The new alpine visitor centre in the Central Highlands region of Tasmania won the Alan C Walker Award for Public Architecture at the 2021 Tasmanian Architecture Awards announced over the […]
The entry deadline for the 2021 Roca international jumpthegap design competition has been extended to 6 September. Sponsored by the Spanish sanitary producer in collaboration with the Barcelona Design centre, jumpthegap calls on architects and designers around the globe to produce creative solutions for the bathroom space. The 2021 edition is the first in the […]
Hassell has preserved the Heritage qualities of the Sydney Theatre Company’s Walsh Bay wharf home in its $60 million redevelopment unveiled earlier this year. The timber-lined interiors of the newly renovated The Wharf on the Sydney Harbour highlight the 100-year-old history of the Heritage-listed warehouse, which was first transformed from a wool store into a […]
ARM Architecture has completed its $60.5 million overhaul of the Home of the Arts (HOTA) Gallery, drawing inspiration for its 3D cellular facade from a Voronoi – a network of tessellating five-sided cells that occurs in nature. The Gold Coast gallery is the third phase of a staged masterplan, completed by ARM in 2013 in […]
Global building materials and aggregates company Holcim has just released its new low carbon ECOPact concrete onto the Australian market. Unveiled in April 2021, ECOPact reduces embodied carbon by 30 to 60 per cent, using “upcycled waste by-products” in place of natural resources. Holcim designed the product after pledging to achieve net zero carbon emissions […]
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