The latest in interiors
Tickets for the 2019 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) are on sale now. Join the best of Australia’s design talent for a night to remember! Book your tickets here now IDEA 2019 is excited to invite you to an evening of celebration as the hotly anticipated winners of this year’s awards are revealed. The Gala will be held […]
Located on the rooftop of Westfield Sydney, Babylon Rooftop Bar and Restaurant is inspired by The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Designed by architecture and interior design practice Hogg&Lamb, the Babylon dining concept was born from the idea of feasting among the ruins of a lost and ancient city. Archways, colonnades and travertine plinths form a sequence […]
Commercial flooring brand Shaw Contract will open a new showroom/office in Sydney’s Jones Bay Wharf in October, with a design that will promote connectivity, collaboration, productivity, movement and well-being. Designed in partnership with Siren Design, CBRE Project Management, and Hunter Mason, the new showroom opens opportunities to develop a culture that is authentic and aspirational. The […]
Melbourne-based BAR Studio’s design for the luxury hotel was inspired by the warmth of alpine lodges, Japanese craftsmanship and the welcoming nature of a mountain village. Located on the northeastern side of Mount Niseko Annupuri, the Park Hyatt Niseko Hanazono has a strong connection to nature, with the design responding to the landscape by terracing around the natural […]
Designed by Ben Callery Architects, Elemental house is a low impact, off-grid retreat on an exposed ridgeline in High Camp, an hour north of Melbourne. Architect’s statement In a compact 10m x 10m footprint, this house has one bedroom, one bathroom and one living room. But while it shuns some of the excesses of modern […]
Hong Kong-based workplace design practice, The Office as a Project, was met with two very specific needs for this infrastructure research organization; maximising light and space and accommodating the unique needs of researchers. Located in London, the brief for the office space involved turning a previously dark, uninspiring office for 36 workers into a bright, flexible […]
Is Australia spoilt for choice when it comes to having the most progressive workplaces in the world? According to Hassell’s Domino Risch and Anthony Dickens, compelling evidence points to the level of innovation in Australian workplaces as being higher, on average, than anywhere else. It’s something we should be proud of, particularly when talking about […]
Located in the UNESCO World Heritage site of George Town, Penang, The Prestige hotel is a modern-day interpretation of Victorian design. Created by Ministry of Design, the independent luxury hotel is located along Church Street, Penang, within the core zone of the George Town UNESCO World Heritage site. The Prestige is a new-build, joining intricate Victorian buildings, which […]
Shaw Contract has announced the winners of its 2019 Design Awards, as the flooring expert continues to champion purposeful, authentic design. The awards, which have now been running for 14 years, place a spotlight on a diverse range of talents from across the globe, celebrating design in action and purposefully rewarding the innovative and truly […]
Carr has designed a hibachi grill restaurant that takes visitors from the streets of Richmond and into a cool and calm Japanese haven. The practice was briefed by the owners of Eazy Peazy to create the “cheeky sibling” of their premium sake label Toji Sake. Shar and Yuta Kobayashi worked closely with the Carr hospitality team […]
The shortlisted projects for the 2019 Interior Design Excellence Awards were revealed at a sold-out event in Sydney last week, where talented members of the Australian design community gathered to celebrate. Two hundred and seventy-two projects were shortlisted across 14 categories and two special awards. The night also provided the Designer of the Year entrants the […]
A long, narrow space in inner Sydney makes for a bustling atmosphere, where the sambols, hoppers and curries fly out of the kitchen from lunch until late. Designed by David Mitchell Architects, Lankan Filling Station is a restaurant and bar with a busy open kitchen at one end and a high bar at the other. The […]
To coincide with its 250th anniversary, the RA Café, lobby space and courtyard bar at the Royal Academy of Arts in London has been transformed by Transit Studio in collaboration with Lot Studio. The brief and budget were challenging, and Transit Studio had a very short timeframe; the first meeting to opening was just five months. […]
Stepping away from the wonder cabinet, safari club and casino lounge style that has pervaded clubs over the past 10 years, Love Machine knows exactly what it is and, more importantly, who its audience is. This is a dance club where audiovisual technology is the main event. With visual touchstones from Stanley Kubrick to Tron, […]
Workplace interior design and fit-out business, Unispace, has appointed Julie Watts to the position of design principal, based in Melbourne. Watts joins the practice from Cox Architecture, adding to the growing number of women specialising in workplace design within Unispace, globally. With a passion for sustainability and a broad range of experience from hospitality to healthcare, […]
The latest residential project from Marc&Co is a home that has been renovated with care and a design concept executed with expertise. In a subtropical city like Brisbane, the historic housing of which is defined by its timber construction traditions, it is a rare and welcomed challenge for architects to tackle a house made of bricks. Architect […]
The latest in architecture
From outlets to support Australian artists to creative-led webinars and face mask tutorials, here are 13 ways local architects and designers can help the design community during the coronavirus outbreak. Support the Biennale of Sydney From 6 April, the international contemporary art festival will be held daily over 10 weeks on the Biennale of Sydney’s website and […]
Woods Bagot has been chosen to lead a world-class team on the design and delivery of a new women’s and children’s hospital in Adelaide. The architecture firm will be joined by Bates Smart, Jacobs and UK-based BDP for the hospital’s design consortium. The four firms have a shared history of carefully delivered healthcare projects. “Bringing […]
For its second ‘pulse check’ survey, the Association of Consulting Architects (ACA) is seeking clarity on the impact of COVID-19 on practices and design studios so far. In its first survey, conducted two weeks ago, the ACA sought to understand what challenges architecture and design practices were anticipating as the COVID-19 pandemic worked its way […]
“Stay positive and protect your capital so that you can explode out of the gates when the market finds its new normal” is Alexander & CO. principal Jeremy Bull’s advice to practices dealing with the coronavirus outbreak. In the first of our Working from Home series, where we speak to Australian interior designers and architects […]
Gabriel Poole, Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture winner and 1998 Royal Australian Institute of Architecture Gold Medalist, passed away yesterday of natural causes aged 85. The Poole House, designed in 1962, while still a student draftsman in Robin Gibson’s office, was his first home in Brisbane’s Sherwood. In the 1970s, Poole established Atelier-Two-Designs with […]
Two years after designing a tool to calculate potential gender bias in English-language architectural and design terms, London-based architectural designer Hannah Rozenberg says the industry has not done enough to address its “insidious bias. “In 2018, when I presented my project, women occupied only 10 per cent of the highest-ranking jobs at the world’s leading […]
What does the $189 billion dollar stimulus package from the Federal Government mean for small and medium-sized architecture practices? As the COVID-19 pandemic works its way across the globe and through industries, clarity has been the catchcry of businesses already reeling from the pandemic’s financial fall-out. “There is an economic crisis that has been created […]
The IDEA 2020 early birds entry period has been extended to 30 April. That gives you an extra month to get your entries in and save $90. IDEA early bird entries were due to close later this week, but we’ve spoken to a lot of architects and interior designers who just need a little extra […]
Last week, we reached out to the architecture and interior design community to ask how we could help during the COVID-19 outbreak. At lot of people asked us for practical, industry-specific tips on working from home. For a lot of designers and architects, we know it’s uncharted territory and a scary one at that. Design […]
ADR brings you virtual visits of the Melbourne Design Week events that didn’t get their day in the sun. The health and wellbeing of clients, staff and visitors have been the priorities of interior designers, architects and event planners as COVID-19 has taken a grip on our mobility. Alongside cancellations of major design events, interior […]
When we sat down to write this message to our readers and everyone in the Australian architecture and interior design industry, we wrote and rewrote dozens of introductions, but there are no perfect words. And really everything we wanted to say can be summed up in these four words. How can we help? Since […]
The Association of Consulting Architects Australia (ACA) has released the preliminary findings of their ‘pulse-check’ survey on the ramifications of COVID-19 on the architecture industry. The responses of more than 1000 practices exposed where firms, big and small, are preparing to feel the impact of the pandemic. Of responding practices, 57 per cent reported they […]
Sandhurst Retail has commissioned international architecture studio OMA to design the Wollert Neighbourhood Centre – a hybrid retail and cultural hub. Located 25 kilometres north of Melbourne in the City of Whittlesea, the 9000-square metre centre aims to be a ‘social condenser’ for the rapidly growing neighbourhood. Alongside a classic retail program, the centre will […]
Hames Sharley and bureau^proberts announce new leaders with collaboration and site sensitivity at the forefront of their minds. Hames Sharley have announced that Hollie Raymond-Baker will be stepping into the position of principal of interior design for the workplace sector of its Perth studio. A new addition to the team, Raymond-Baker brings more than 10 […]
The Architects Accreditation Council of Australia (ACCA) has postponed the APE National Examination Paper due to the outbreak of coronavirus. The exams were scheduled to take place on 21 April, but have been rescheduled following “the guidance of the Commonwealth and State Health Departments given the evolving situation of COVID-19 in Australia”. In a statement yesterday, […]
The Association of Consulting Architects (ACA) is calling on all practices and design studios to complete a short “pulse check” survey to better understand how the industry will be affected by COVID-19. As of publication, COVID-19 has more than 150,000 confirmed cases worldwide and almost 6000 deaths. South Australia, Western Australia, Victoria and the Australian […]
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