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Continuing our series celebrating Women of Influence in Architecture and Interior Design, Australian Design Review asks Laraine Sperling to reflect on the prejudicial challenges she overcame to reach a position of influence, and how the workplace difficulties that women face have evolved. The day Sperling speaks with Australian Design Review, she is preparing for an […]
Continuing our series celebrating Women of Influence in Architecture and Interior Design, Australian Design Review spotlights the diverse career of leading curator Rachael Fry. CRITERIA founder and creative director Rachael Fry’s curatorial approach is anchored in a deep understanding of the métier. Fry launched C. Gallery in 2021 during the depths of the pandemic – […]
Major architecture firms are failing to meet the target gender pay gap, according to recent data and recommendations from Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). The difference between men and women’s salaries at nearly 5000 of Australia’s biggest private employers became public for the first time last week under new laws. WGEA published the pay […]
Davina Bester, founder and managing director of Perth-based multidisciplinary design practice Milieu Creative has been named as a judge for IDEA 2024 With more than 20 years of experience, Bester is an accomplished architect, interior designer and qualified builder. Leading a rapidly growing team from Milieu Creative’s main office in Perth, Bester applies a holistic […]
Continuing our series celebrating Women of Influence in Architecture and Interior Design, Australian Design Review spotlights the unparalleled work of Fiona Lynch. Fiona Lynch’s eponymous studio was founded in 2013 and has since worked on a range of residential, retail, office, hospitality, institutional and hotel projects. Incorporating architectural and interior design services, Lynch’s atmospheric creations […]
Continuing our series celebrating Women of Influence in Architecture and Interior Design, Australian Design Review spotlights the jaw-dropping career of arguably 2024’s most in-demand designer – Yasmine Ghoniem of studio YSG. Following the launch of design collective Amber Road with her sister Katy Svalbe, a landscape architect, in 2013, YSG Studio burst onto the scene […]
Australian Design Review (ADR) speaks to people and culture experts in architecture and interior design about industry attitudes towards hybrid work and the strategies that are performing well. Four years since the pandemic upended traditional notions of where work should be done, Australian legislation is catching up. Around two million workers might soon have a […]
Australian Design Review is putting the spotlight on Women of Influence in architecture and interior design, starting with Shona McElroy, 30UNDER30 alum and SMAC Studio principal, to talk about inspiration and equality and join her to tour her new studio space in Paddington. As Australian Design Review walks the tight little streets of Sydney’s Paddington […]
Through their innovative approach, Tilt Industrial Design’s work on large-scale community and corporate projects has helped to foster atmospheric inclusivity. Concluding Australian Design Review’s (ADR) focus on designing for functionality in workplaces and education settings this month, we’ll take a look at what makes a space both practical and adaptable in responding to the interior […]
From humble beginnings as a small scale general engineering workshop, Formway has become an award-winning, world-leading design studio. While they don’t consider themselves as a furniture design practice, it is their task chairs, which include the Life chair for Knoll, and most recently the Denn chair for Zenith, that put them on the map. As […]
Australian Design Review (ADR) recently revealed the 30UNDER30 Architects and Innovators of the Built World for 2023/2024. To celebrate, we are getting to know this exciting multidisciplinary cohort, the passions that drive their work and what makes them tick creatively. Alvin Zhu is a passionate storyteller. As a content creator, filmmaker, recipient of the Kay […]
In recent years, the concept of neurodiversity, which both recognises and celebrates the variations and unique ways of thinking that many people have, has gained an increased amount of traction and attention. With increased awareness comes shifts in expectations about the level of support and inclusion neurodiverse people are offered on a social level, as […]
Studio Bright’s design of the exhibition ‘LISA GORMAN + MIRKA MORA: to breathe with the rhythm of the heart’ at Warrnambool Art Gallery has helped align the work of two pioneering Australian artists whose practices traverse generations and mediums. Curated by gallery director Aaron Bradbrook, the show in south-west Victoria celebrates the love of colour, […]
Australian Design Review (ADR) recently revealed the 30UNDER30 Architects and Innovators of the Built World for 2023/2024. To celebrate, we are getting to know this exciting multidisciplinary cohort, the passions that drive their work and what makes them tick creatively. First up is Kaitlin Sells, a Adelaide-based architect at JPE Design Studio. Sells’ design philosophy […]
At the intersection of trauma and design is a recognition of the healing power of the built environment. Interior designers and architects understand intimately how a space can impact human psychology. That desire to learn why entering a room or building has the capacity to move them is perhaps why many are drawn to design […]
TURNER has amplified learning outcomes for students and teachers at Santa Sophia Catholic College in Box Hill, Sydney, using experiential design to add value to the work of architect BVN. Colourful environmental graphics and wayfinding complement the architecture at the college’s six-level vertical campus, inspiring students aged from 3-18 to explore, innovate and thrive. TURNER […]
Working from home has become a part of working life. Initially, in the COVID-19 lockdown era, it was something we had to do. Now, two years post-lockdowns, having the flexibility to WFH has been recognised as an important part of what it means to have a sustainable, productive and enriching work life. This month ADR […]
The Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) is proud to announce the IDEA Community Services category will be renamed to honour the late Mark Robinson, former principal of Flack Studio. Mark Robinson worked alongside David Flack since the establishment of Flack Studio in 2015, a world-renowned, Melbourne-based multidisciplinary practice of architects and designers. A film director […]
Career moves across the Australian architecture and interior design landscape in January 2024 reflect new directions for studios and businesses into the new year. Buchan expands health sector team with two senior appointments Buchan has appointed two new senior team members to support its continued growth in the health and wellbeing sector. Sandra Stewart joins […]
Empowered to combat the inevitable challenges of economic uncertainty, the director of Melbourne’s FPPV Architecture, Thailand’s JAI Architecture and Coop Himmelb(l)au Australia, Paul Viney implores architects to holistically protect their businesses. Paul Viney acknowledges that a successful and sustainable architectural practice thrives on more than just design sensibility and skill – it requires rich and […]
In pursuing sustainable, inclusive and accessible design, architecture must give something back to the human condition, according to HDR’s Australian design principal Simon Fleet. As we near the end of a frankly climactic and colourful, albeit chaotic, year, wherein the need for climate-responsive and sustainable spaces and co-designing with Country emerged as pressing design tools, […]
Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 program provides mentorship and career development in the architecture and design industry, bringing together game-changers, industry leaders, practice founders, product manufacturers, suppliers and sponsors to highlight and empower young architects and innovators of the future. In celebration of the new ADR 30UNDER30 Architects and Innovators of the Built World stream, ADR […]
The 30UNDER30 alum has achieved a skilful balance of creative experimentation and functionality in her latest upholstery ranges with RJ Living, where she is a product and design manager. McEwan’s new upholstery range with Australian-owned and based designer furniture brand RJ Living disproves the assumption that for something to be aesthetically inspiring, it must be […]
In pursuing a sustainable approach towards manufacturing regenerative timber, sponsor for the IDEA Institutional category Crafted Hardwoods responds to the inescapable conundrum of timber being the most renewable material, yet one disadvantaged by a slow natural growing process and requiring protection from deforestation. Geoffrey Swinbourne was sitting at a think-tank dinner in Canberra with nearly […]
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