The latest in interiors
With little more than two months until the IDEA 2020 winners are announced, we’re talking trends with a few of our favourite industry leaders. This week, it’s bathrooms with Laufen. For more than 125 years, the LAUFEN brand has been using the oldest malleable material known to man to make innovative bathroom products in state-of-the-art […]
Tickets for the Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) are on sale now. Join the best of Australia’s design talent for a night to remember! Buy your tickets here now. The winners of IDEA 2020 will be announced at The Timber Yard in Melbourne on 19 February 2021. If you attended last year’s gala, you’ll be familiar with […]
It’s December already! We’re kicking off our review of 2020 with a look at the year’s best interviews with Australian designers and architects. “We’re here to live, not to defy death. Our architecture should do the same” – Koichi Takada A chance virtual encounter with Koichi Takada in the middle of Melbourne’s second lockdown turned into an […]
In the lead up to the 2020 IDEA Gala, ADR catches up with Zenith to talk trends and sustainability in furniture design for 2021. If there’s one IDEA category that always fills me with excitement, it’s the Object, Furniture and Lighting (Rising). My love of emerging designers is well documented and this category never disappoints. […]
Tickets for the IDEA Gala go on sale Friday 9 December 2020. Save the date and join us we celebrate the best in Australian architecture and design! Now in its 18th year, IDEA is a forum for celebrating incredible local design and the practitioners who push the envelope with every project. But it’s also a […]
Core Collective Architects has designed an environmentally-conscious women’s clinic, specifying a selection of GECA Cradle to Cradle certified carpet from Shaw Contract. A multi-disciplinary healthcare for women at all stages of life, Eternal Women’s Health in Hobart was recently named a winner in the 2020 Shaw Contract Design Awards. Located a short distance from the […]
Pastel blue tiles, terrazzo tables and salmon seats create “an insertion of playfulness” within a late 19th-century building in this gelato shop designed by Ewert Leaf. Located in South Melbourne, the brief for Little Sky Gelateria was “a fanciful retail space”, showcasing the art of gelato production. “Through their love of gelato, the clients aspired […]
Established in late 2017 by founder Anna Trefely, Esoteriko Interior Architecture is a flourishing emerging studio located in Sydney. Perfectly balanced between residential and commercial projects, at its core Esoteriko embraces trust, honesty, respect and collaboration. Known for delivering a highly considered response to clients and site, Esoteriko creates versatile interiors with an emphasis on […]
INK Interior Architects fitted out AHW Studio’s Sydney store in aged brass and black Paperock board to reflect the “tactility” of the family-owned brand’s jewellery. The studio’s material choice embodies the brand’s ethos, which celebrates “the beauty of imperfections” when sourcing vintage watches from all over the world and repurposing them into rings, pendant necklaces […]
atelier Luke creates a shaded journey through Japanese and Australian design vernaculars in the studio’s second Kyoto row house renovation. In his slim but enormously influential 1933 book on the Japanese aesthetic In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizaki warns against the “evils of excessive illumination”. “We find beauty not in the thing itself, but in […]
An “unstructured” inner courtyard and decorative steel mesh facade covered in foliage are among the features Carr has included in this mixed use building that offers residents a strong connection to nature. Designed by the Melbourne practice together with 360 Degrees Landscape Architects for developers Supalai PCL and Gersh Investment Partners Ltd, Brunswick Yard draws […]
The “fluid sculptural form” of the white steel staircase is at the heart of a complete renovation of this Melbourne home by Jolson Architecture Interiors. Designed in 2001 by Cox Carmichael and completed in 2003, Arc Side, located close to the ocean, was originally two standalone apartments, but was “reinvented” by Jolson after the clients’ children […]
The latest in architecture
A pink pond “evocative of Australia’s inland salt lakes” from Taylor Knights has won the 2021 NGV Architecture Commission. Working in collaboration with Melbourne artist and RMIT lecturer James Carey, Taylor Knights’s pond[er] will be installed in the Grollo Equiset Garden at the NGV International from November 2021. The installation will feature a body of […]
A “rainbow” of custom glazed bricks on the facade of the Springvale Community Hub were designed by Lyons to reflect the cultural flags of Australia’s most diverse area. Completed in 2020, the hub consolidates the Springvale Library, Springvale Historical Society and the Council Customer Service into one 3800-square metre space in Melbourne’s outer south east. […]
Fender Katsalidis has completed its 319-metre tall Australia 108 residential tower, cantilevering a gold ‘Starburst’ two-thirds up the building. Melbourne’s tallest tower and the Southern Hemisphere’s tallest residential tower, Australia 108 is located in Southbank and stretches up 100 levels. The gold ‘Starburst’ occupies two of those levels and protrudes six metres outward from the […]
The 2021 Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) Gold Medal has been awarded to Donald Watson, with the jury describing him as “Queensland’s foremost architectural historian” and a “protagonist of postmodernist design”. Australia’s most prestigious architecture award, the Gold Medal recognises distinguished service by architects who have designed or executed buildings of high merit, producing work […]
Venetian practice MAP studio has been commissioned to design the site of MPavilion 2021, which will open in Melbourne on 11 November. Founded in 2010 and led by Francesco Magnani and Traudy Pelzel, MAP studio specialises in urban renewal and the “sympathetic transformation” of existing structures and spaces. The practice is best known for its […]
The Robin Boyd Foundation has teamed up with Creative Partnership Australia for a fundraiser dedicated to amplifying the voice of architecture and good design in Australia. The Amplify Our Voice fundraiser is being launched to mark the release of After The Australian Ugliness – a collection of essays by authors from a range of disciplines […]
Cardboard tubes – a by-product of this Melbourne company’s manufacturing process – were used as a decorative element in this office space from Splinter Society Architecture. Located in the south-eastern suburb of Springvale, Asaleo is a manufacturing company with a product range centred around forestry products. The cardboard tubes were used to construct wall linings, […]
Plus Architecture chose a “sculpturally beautiful” design for its latest apartment project on the Queensland coastline, tapering its exterior so it appears thinner to the eyes of beachside passersby. Inspired by the way a sculptor carves marble, the practice tapered the edges of the slab for the Luna Burleigh tower – a technique it has […]
The Association of Consulting Architects Australia’s (ACA) fifth ‘pulse check’ continues to track the impact of COVID-19 on the architecture industry, increasing knowledge of what is needed to ensure a robust future for architectural practices. The ACA’s third ‘pulse check’, conducted at the end of June 2020, sought information about how practices were faring in […]
We’re living in an age where, increasingly, our home spaces need to do double duty. Not only are we demanding more and more in terms of functionality and versatility (hello home office squeezed into the lounge or dining room), but we also want our living spaces to offer something more intangible – a mood, a […]
“Subdued” eucalyptus greens, natural oak, charcoals and silver greys dominate in the new Melbourne showroom for Cosh Living by Kett Studio. The Melbourne outfit and its director Justin Hutchinson were inspired by the Australian landscape when it came to designing the new Richmond home for the family-owned furniture company. Hutchinson tells ADR that he also […]
BKK principal Tim Black speaks to ADR about the honour of realising a long-gestating vision for Federation Square’s Alfred Deakin building, as driven by the passionate team at cinematic institution ACMI. There are few joys as simple yet supremely rewarding for an architect than to stand in a newly completed space they designed and see […]
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