Through shifting styles and restless trends, the Series 7 chair by Fritz Hansen remains a quiet classic with nothing to prove. At 7.14am, on the northern edge of Copenhagen, the sky puts on a quiet spectacle: pink melting into blue, yellow flickering over green. From the coastline, the view towards Sweden becomes a soft gradient […]
With Patricia Urquiola’s sculptural sensibility and Laufen Space’s groundbreaking SaphirKeramik material, the Sonar collection reimagines what bathroom design can be – tactile, technical and beautifully refined. In the quotidian realm of bathroom design, where form is commonly dictated by material constraint, few collections have rewritten the rules to the extent that Sonar has. Conceived in […]
There’s a new kind of nightlife brewing on the corner of North Terrace and Bank Street in Adelaide’s CBD. Once home to the gritty Fat Controller nightclub, the basement space is now undergoing an imaginative transformation into K-Box – a genre-bending karaoke destination from Matthews Architects that promises to blur the lines between intimacy, spectacle […]
Designing for early learning is often about soft corners, bright colours and safe thresholds. But what happens when a space must speak to children who experience the world in wildly different ways? At The Sanctuary Early Learning Centre Health and Knowledge Precinct, architecture becomes a quiet collaborator, shaping experience without instruction. Every surface, volume and […]
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