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
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 […]
Japanese practice Unemori Architects has delivered the ultimate tiny house in a densely populated area of central Tokyo. Dubbed House Tokyo, the home for a couple with no children has a footprint of just 26 square metres and a total floor area of 51 square metres. Making use of a suspended structure, the architects installed […]
London practice Baca Architects drew inspiration from a whale raising its head above water for its design of the Australia Underwater Discovery Centre in Geographe Bay. A two and half hour drive from Perth, the natural marine observatory at the end of Busselton Jetty is known for the annual migrations of southern right, humpback, pygmy and blue […]
Technē Architecture and Interior Design‘s Bianca Baldi has been promoted from interior designer to associate. With more than 10 years of industry experience at the Melbourne practice, Baldi has worked in a variety of sectors including hospitality, residential and commercial spaces. She began her career as an undergraduate in 2010 and went on to work […]
The Venice Biennale will go ahead as planned on 22 May 2021 with an expanded program that will take place over six months. Speaking at a virtual press conference recently, Biennale president Roberto Cicutto discussed this year’s program, as well as additions designed primarily for the many visitors who will be unable to attend in […]
Mihaly Slocombe Architects riffed on the original building’s form and material palette for this renovation in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. One of a series of six mirrored Art Deco cottages, Deco House was unprotected by a Heritage overlay, but Mihaly Slocombe Architects was nevertheless intent on honouring the original quality of the property. “Our […]
Grimshaw has completed its overhaul of Melbourne’s T2 International Arrival Hall, connecting it back to the “vibrant city it serves”. Part of its overarching Melbourne Airport Design Vision guide, the new space has a “cohesive local character”, which Grimshaw seeks to carry throughout the entire campus. “Travellers first impressions of a city are created at […]
The 2021 ArchiTeam Conference will explore the disruption to lives post COVID-19, how we’ve adapted and how small practices can meet the challenges and opportunities ahead. Now in its third iteration, the conference will be held virtually on 21 May 2021 and will feature four sessions, each exploring the future trajectories for design, practice and […]
In exploring the millennia of First Nations design, Design: Building on Country “issues a challenge” for a new Australian design ethos that embraces Country and its people. Written by Walbanga and Wadi Wadi woman, Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame inductee and award-winning designer Alison Page and architect and anthropologist Paul Memmott, the new […]
Multi-disciplinary practice Tanner Kibble Denton (TKD) Architects has announced a suite of promotions that recognises the diverse talent within the practice. Formed in 2012, the Sydney-based practice, previously known as Tanner Architects, announced that Mel Mackenzie would be its newest principal. Mackenzie joined TKD Architects in 2013 and led its interior design team across commercial, education, […]
The Australian public, and designers in particular, shouldn’t be afraid of being political, says IDEA 2020 Designer of the Year David Flack. “Within our current world, politics has become a dirty word, but it’s not. It’s actually the place all design starts from,” says Flack. “There is a fear within a lot of Australians, but […]
After The Australian Ugliness examines “how Australia has become ugly” in new and unchanged ways since Robin Boyd penned his seminal text in 1960. Published by the National Gallery of Victoria in collaboration with Monash University and the University of Technology Sydney and with the support of the Robin Boyd Foundation, the book was unveiled […]
DESIGNER + SELECTS Greg Natale
© Niche Media 2026