The latest in interiors
In an ongoing weekly series in the lead up to our IDEA awards Gala, we chat to Herman Miller to get its insight into the future of one of the A&D sectors most heavily impacted by COVID-19 – workplace design. It’s a sector Herman Miller knows a thing or two about. Founded in Zeeland, Michigan, […]
With the IDEA awards set to be announced in person in Melbourne on 19 February 2021, we caught up with Halliday + Baillie director Tanya Rive to take stock and talk trends for the Residential Single category. In an ongoing weekly series in the lead up to our awards Gala, we’ll be chatting to our […]
Noise Noise Noise embraced colour to transition Stylerunner from an online-only presence into a brick and mortar store in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale. After eight years online, the activewear brand called on the Melbourne studio to create a new logo, identity and colour palette for its first physical location. “The go-to for womens activewear […]
In spearheading the bespoke interiors of Osteria Tedesca, COX director Patrick Ness proves you can teach an old practice a new tune. Ten years ago, Brigitte Hafner sat down and wrote a manifesto to one day cook somewhere that had heart, wine, music, nature, architecture, stories, theatre and joy. In a journey that took her […]
The winners of IDEA 2020 will be announced at a Gala party to be held in Melbourne on 19 February 2021. A couple of months ago, we made the decision, along with the support of our incredible IDEA sponsors, to postpone our annual awards gala until the Australian architecture and interior design community could come […]
The first two months of Melbourne’s MPavilion 2020 season feature an array of events exploring architecture and design culturally and aesthetically, but also politically and economically with a focus on urban planning, landscape and history. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, festival organisers made the decision not to commission a new pavilion, but to re-use […]
With two weeks left until DESIGN Canberra comes to an end, we’re looking at one of the festival’s upcoming highlights – an architectural stroll through some of the capital’s most iconic mid-century homes, including the little known Munns House. I caught up with the home’s owner, Amy Wilson, recently to chat about the property, which […]
CAMILLA AND MARC has teamed up with long-time collaborator Kelvin Ho of Akin Atelier to design its new flagship store in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale. “As the neighbourhood flagship, we designed CAMILLA AND MARC Armadale as an ode to community and a celebration of the human touch,” explains Ho. “We began to develop the […]
Affectionately called Khayalethu (‘our home’ in Ndebele), Church Point house by CHROFI and We Are Triibe combines a life lived in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. It’s the board-formed concrete walls of Khayalethu Residence that stay in your mind long after you’ve turned the page and moved onto the next project. They’re what drew […]
Over cheese in the library and finishes room, Flack Studio presented the design for this two-storey Edwardian family home in Melbourne. Created for two adults and two teenagers, Middle Park is a place dedicated to family, cooking and entertaining, and was designed as a forever home not just for its current inhabitants, but future generations […]
MPavilion kicks off in Melbourne on 12 November with festival goers set to enjoy the season on STOOL DOLLY by interior designer and architect Holly Board in partnership with Peter Grove. Designed in collaboration with Melbourne Fringe’s Fringe Furniture program, the MPavilion 2020 stool is part of the festival’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Responding […]
We catch up with Ricci Bloch, a finalist for the IDEA 2020 Emerging Designer of the Year award. The Sydney architect has four years under her belt in her own practice and and 13 years in the industry creating beautiful, holistic spaces that weave together elements of architecture, interiors and landscape. Her two shortlisted IDEA […]
The latest in architecture
Cloud-based software provider BQE has received significant investment from Serent Capital, a growth-focused private equity firm that invests in technology and tech-enabled software companies. Working with professional service firms, BQE was founded by Shafat Qazi in 1995 as a billing and project management software company. Its flagship product, BQE CORE, is a cloud-based solution that […]
Deep rendered arches shaped like those found in Italian villas dominate these apartments designed by Jolson for the Melbourne suburb of Armadale. The Melbourne design studio teamed up with architectural developer Orchard Piper and Sydney-based landscape designer and horticulturalist Myles Baldwin to deliver 10 apartments that appear “more like a bespoke house”. Varying in size […]
Wood Marsh pays tribute to the urban scenes of contemporary artists in its South Melbourne mixed-use Piccolo house. There’s reciprocity between artistic and architectural projects. The influence of Art Nouveau can be seen in the organic-shaped ironwork on the streets of Paris and Vienna. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque’s Cubism saw buildings become assemblages of […]
Workplace designer and Sydney-based principal at Hassell Domino Risch has been named a judge for IDEA 2021. IDEA is now open for entries until 2 June, with discounted entry fees available until 2 May. Now in its 19th year, IDEA is one of Australia’s oldest independent architecture and interior design awards with winners selected annually […]
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Fifteen of the country’s top architects have come together to demonstrate just how Melbourne can become entirely self-sufficient by 2030 in A New Normal – a pop-up exhibition being held as part of Melbourne Design Week. A New Normal occupies a floor and the rooftop of 130 Little Collins Street, which is set to be […]
The “idiosyncratic visual style” of director Wes Anderson is instantly recognisable in the latest café project from Biasol. The Budapest Café in Carlton, Melbourne, comes off the success of the similarly named cafe in Chengdu, China, which Biasol also designed in 2017. Both were inspired by Anderson’s distinctive style and Melbourne’s café culture with the […]
Bates Smart has completed its refurbishment of the Melbourne Heritage-listed Equity Chambers building, transforming it into the site of the city’s first Hilton hotel. Designed by architects Oakley & Parkes in 1931, the original building on the corner of Little Queen and Bourke Streets was the first synagogue in the state and had been the longest continuously […]
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal have been awarded the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The French duo best known for its social housing, cultural and academic institutions, public spaces and urban developments, made a name for itself most recently with its transformation, alongside Frédéric Druot, of Tour Bois le Prêtre. The crumbling 1960s tower block in […]
For more than 25 years, Kerstin Thompson has explored how architecture can “respond to local conditions to positively shape lives and communities”. In Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing people & place, the extensive body of work of the practice and the achievements and lessons learnt by its founder are chronicled in what publisher Thames & Hudson […]
Melbourne Design Week returns for 2021 with more than 300 exhibitions, talks, films, tours and workshops across Victoria and online. On from 26 March- 5 April 2021, this year’s theme, Design the World You Want, is explored in three pillars – Care, Community and Climate. For the first time, the 11-day festival will expand into […]
Australia-based global workplace design expert Unispace has finalised a transaction for the 100% sale of the company to multinational private equity firm PAG. Under the agreement, PAG won’t take an active role in the day-to-day management of Unispace, with its non-executive board members’ support providing an extra layer of strategic insight moving forwards. The acquisition […]
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